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
As the filtrate passes down the tubules, nutrients and other solutes are reabsorbed by capillaries.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Second, the filtrate is collected in the renal tubules.
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
To the filtrate and washings add 5 cc. of a saturated solution of ferric alum and a few cc. of nitric acid.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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
A tiny streak of light filtrated through a small curtained window in the concierge's lodge; it served to guide Kennard to the foot of the narrow stone staircase which led to the floors above.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
It was uncompromisingly ugly and uninviting, for beyond the faint glimmer of the lanthorn only one or two narrow streaks of light filtrated through the chinks of the shutters.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The wort thus prepared, the liquor is filtrated, in order to separate it from the grain, and then boiled until reduced to one half, in order to concentrate it to the degree of strength desired.
I then added thirty grains of strong quick-lime in exceeding fine powder, shook the mixture well, and filtrated it.
From Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances by Joseph Black
“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
Others cleaned it by filtrating, but it went through so slowly that they could ill endure to wait so long, and were loath to lose so much precious liquid.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
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
A house has been lately opened for the sale of filtrating and purifying vases, to which the ingenious constructor has given the most elegant etruscan shapes.
From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Sir John Carr
