filtrate

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The stalactites - hundreds of mineral formations hanging like melted candle wax above us which naturally filtrate the rainwater - are being clogged by cement dust, he says.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

Second, the filtrate is collected in the renal tubules.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Additionally, the loop of Henle invades the renal medulla, which is naturally high in salt concentration and tends to absorb water from the renal tubule and concentrate the filtrate.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

As the filtrate passes down the tubules, nutrients and other solutes are reabsorbed by capillaries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

I did not fail to observe that the rains which previously descended through these steep channels, would in future be kept back to filtrate through the scori�, without ever reaching the new channel.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi