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sieving

  • present participle
    of sieve.
    sieve
    noun
    an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.

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Volunteers have been combing through sand and sieving water to find the plastic pellets.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024

The successful sieving of the fuel molecules is achieved via selective proton transfers due to steric hindrance on holey graphene sheets that have chemical functionalization and act as proton-exchange membranes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023

“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021

The sieving winnowed out tiny pebbles and other impurities.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park