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purification

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


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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

She played a significant role in the identification and purification of the active form of GLP-1 in the mid-1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

A shower then completed the whole body’s purification in readiness for prayer.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

The chemical plant's purifications and syntheses were already a network too large for the human mind to grasp as a whole, and it was still growing.

From Industrial Revolution by Poul William Anderson

On the other hand, the priests do not possess the exclusive right to perform purifications.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker

Their purifications for their Priests, and for having touched a dead body or other unclean thing, according to Mr. Adair, are quite Levitical.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Reuben Gold Thwaites




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