filter paper
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of filter paper
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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They also collected urine samples on filter paper to measure estrogen and progesterone, allowing them to identify when ovulation occurred.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
This involves placing a piece of filter paper for 60 seconds between a dog’s lower eyelid and cornea.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2022
The scientists wiped the armpits of healthy people and dengue fever patients with an absorbent material, isolated the molecules that could become airborne, and dabbed them onto filter paper.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2022
Those who are tested will be sent a finger prick to illicit a small sample of blood, which is then stored on a special filter paper.
From Fox News • May 6, 2020
Wear, Los Angeles, perfected a coffee-making device in which a metal perforated clamp was employed to apply a filter paper to the under-side of an English earthenware adaptation of the French drip pot.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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