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
Further up, only sodium is passively transported out of 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
The more acidic the filtrate, the more ammonia is secreted.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Place the combined kerosene filtrate and kerosene washings from the insoluble impurities determination in a platinum dish.
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
When a large quantity of fluid is to be filtrated, the paper is supported by the frame of wood, Pl.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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
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.
He sat at his desk with the scanty light, which filtrated between the curtains, immediately behind him, his ungainly form with the high shoulders and mop-like, shaggy hair half swallowed up by the surrounding gloom.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
“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
In experiments with small quantities, this operation is conveniently performed in jugs or matrasses of glass, and by filtrating the liquor through paper in a glass funnel.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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
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
