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"All you would need to do is to collect them with an electrostatic precipitator -- a device that exposes the charged particles to an electric field and efficiently sweeps them away."

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

Cal/OSHA also determined the company’s management knew the electrostatic precipitator — which exploded in 2015 — could explode during a flammable vapor leakage.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2024

He also consulted for the DuPont Company, where he developed the electrostatic precipitator, a device designed to curb air pollution by removing colloidal particles from air.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

US chemist Frederick Cottrell received a patent for his device to reduce industrial pollution — an electrostatic precipitator — in 1908.

From Nature • May 3, 2016

Of the four wakeful ones the most unhappy was Hiram himself, the precipitator of it all.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham