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purification

[pyoor-uh-fi-key-shuhn] / pjʊər ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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I’m scheduled to tour purification facilities, pipelines and compression stations that process the methane and transport it to markets.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

The study, "Noise-assisted purification of a single-photon source," was published in the journal Optica Quantum.

From Science Daily Dec. 23, 2025

New fabs under India’s industrial policies will need modern water purification and recycling.

From MarketWatch Dec. 9, 2025

Officials reported that about a third of the country remains without electricity or running water due to collapsed power lines and inundated water purification facilities.

From Barron's Nov. 30, 2025

On the lowest shelf, at least, purification straws are stacked neatly.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

One is an assay that would bypass laborious cell purifications and manipulations by detecting activated T cells in blood samples squirted into tubes premixed with bits of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

From Scientific American May 19, 2022

He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

There were baths and purifications; the worshippers wore linen garments and slept alone.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

The uncleanness of the third plague deranged the whole system of Egyptian worship, with its punctilious and elaborate purifications.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick

Garments, emblems, rites, purifications are the elements of his life now.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover




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