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filtrate

[fil-treyt] / ˈfɪl treɪt /




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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

The filtrate coming out of the kidneys is called urine.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

By the time the filtrate reaches the DCT, most of the urine and solutes have been reabsorbed.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Further up, only sodium is passively transported out of the filtrate.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

To the filtrate from the insoluble matter add 40 cubic centimeters of half normal sulfuric acid, all the acid being added at once.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

The desire for blast-proof walls, filtrated air and water, and composting toilets is deeply embedded in the national psyche.

From Washington Times Feb. 6, 2017

After Nevers he was only twenty-four hours ahead of Napoleon and his progress became a triumphant one: newspapers, despatches had filtrated through from Paris—news became authentic, though some of it sounded a little wild.

From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

This was not acting, but the flashing of a stream where the sunshine reached to its bed; was filtrated through pure, sweet waters.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

For the ordinary purposes of society, river-water is frequently filtrated by means of clean washed sand, to separate its impurities.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier

Their conception of national government was still that national legislation filtrated from Congress to the State legislatures, and through that medium to the people.

From Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

“That part of the equation, our relationship to nature, is over. But they have a more important job to do – and that’s filtrating water, providing habitat for other animals and building the ecosystem.”

From The Guardian Nov. 17, 2016

Under the new plan, Marines equipped with borrowed helicopters will try to move fast and throw cordons around North Vietnamese in filtrating the area.

From Time Magazine Archive

While he was speculating as to whether this was probable, smoke began filtrating through the tops of the pines, behind the couple.

From Deerfoot in The Mountains by John Steeple Davis

Then, putting all the liquor together, and filtrating, to separate the too gross particles, he evaporated it over a slow fire, till it was brought to an extract of a pretty moderate consistence.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

She is, then, the essence filtrating from the declaration of Paul at Athens, that "of one blood hath God created all men to dwell upon earth."

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson




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