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 collecting ducts collect filtrate coming from the nephrons and fuse in the medullary papillae.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Because salt but not water is lost, the filtrate becomes more dilute as it travels up the limb.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The more acidic the filtrate, the more ammonia is secreted.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

I did not fail to observe that the rains which previously descended through these steep channels, would in future be kept back to filtrate through the scori�, without ever reaching the new channel.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi