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 filtrate coming out of the kidneys is called urine.
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
The descending limb of the loop of Henle is water permeable, so the water flows from the filtrate to the interstitial fluid.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To the filtrate from the aluminium, iron and chromium precipitate, ammonia and ammonium sulphide are added; the precipitate may contain nickel, cobalt, zinc and manganese sulphides.
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
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
Oh! thou didst well choose thy words, oh daughter of imperial Cæsar, for thy honeyed words were like the nectar which hid the poison that hath filtrated into my daughter's heart.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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
The third is all over beset with Glandules thro' which are filtrated the serous Particles of the Blood contain'd in the Vessels of the second Tunicle.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
“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
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
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
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
