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purification

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


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Chambers said he worked with volunteers to distribute sleeping bags, water purification tools, food and essentials to communities cut off by collapsed bridges, travelling to the area by helicopter.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The team believes it could eventually be used in solar-powered photocatalysis, indoor air purification systems, and low-intensity 3D printing technologies.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 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

He saw the water purification plant and storehouses for food and fertilizer.

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

The candidates were prepared for participation by long periods of fasting and various purifications, moral and physical.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook

In the fifth part are noticed sacrifices and holy things; and the sixth treats of purifications; vessels; furniture; clothes; houses; leprosy; baths; and numerous other articles.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

A work bearing the name of "Museus" was a complete ritual of purifications.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by T. W. Doane




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