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
The more acidic the filtrate, the more ammonia is secreted.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Further up, sodium is actively transported out of the filtrate, and chlorine ions follow.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
From here, the papillae deliver the filtrate, now called urine, into the minor calyces that eventually connect to the ureters through the renal pelvis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To the filtrate add ammonia in excess; a white precipitate indicates bismuth; if the solution be blue, copper is present.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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
The door of the tap-room was still wide open, a narrow wedge-shaped light filtrated through on to the beams and floor of the verandah, making the surrounding blackness seem yet more impenetrable.
From A Bride of the Plains by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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
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
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
“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
I have frequently alluded to a branch of geography, the importance of which is but recently adequately recognized—the subterranean waters of the earth considered as stationary reservoirs, as flowing currents, and as filtrating fluids.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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
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
