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purification

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


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This built-in purification effect raised the final DNA recovery rate from 14% to 98%.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

I’m scheduled to tour purification facilities, pipelines and compression stations that process the methane and transport it to markets.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

She noted that over 90% of homes lack such purification systems.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 2026

New fabs under India’s industrial policies will need modern water purification and recycling.

From MarketWatch Dec. 9, 2025

The water purification plant lay far to the east, and the little church Celia visited—could she still visit as an eejit?—was to the west.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

Some have thought, but without sufficient grounds, that these external purifications are believed to supersede an inward cleansing of the heart.

From History of the Moors of Spain by M. Florian

“For one purification it is allowed, for two purifications, it is disallowed.”

From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson

The Pythia was obliged to prepare by fasts, sacrifices and purifications before she ascended the tripod.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White




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