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filtrate

[fil-trayt] / ˈfɪl treɪt /




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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

Absorption of water from the filtrate would decrease, indicated by decreased loss of water in the descending loop of Henle, increased solute secretion into the distal tubule, and decreased water absorbtion in the collecting duct.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Absorption of water from the filtrate would decrease, indicated by decreased loss of water in the ascending loop of Henle, increased solute secretion into the distal tubule, and increased water absorption in the collecting duct.

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

This fact indicates that the infectious principle is not in solution, but is an organism withheld from the filtrate by the filter.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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

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

You would have deemed them Trees of Life; but underneath their branches grew no blade of grass, no herb, nor moss; the bare earth was scorched by heaven's own dews, filtrated through that fatal foliage.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

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

“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

I have frequently alluded to a branch of physical 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 The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh

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


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