filter pump

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noun

a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated

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filter feeder, filter feeding, filter out, filter paper, filter press, filter pump, filter tip, filth, filthy, filthy lucre, filtrable

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How to use filter pump in a sentence

Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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We are overwhelmed with data from every quarter, and our capacity to filter fact from fraud is limited.
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If users want to send naughty photos with a veil of privacy, opt for the pixilated shower door filter.
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By using some sort of filter—like, perhaps, a universally understood saying—the trait is more easily conveyed.
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Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.
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At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).
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The formula would be: “The pump invented—Drain a well ,” or Water raised in a hollow.
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At Wheal Alfred they have a 64-inch cylinder; the air-pump is 20 inches, and the stroke is half that of the engine.
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I observe that you have ordered the pump, and from the description you give of it, I think it will answer very well.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
It was placed immediately over the shaft and pump-rods, requiring no engine-beam.
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