Purifier
['pjʊrɪfaɪɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.
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Examples
- The gas is then conveyed along another tube into the purifier, H, filled with lime and water, and it thence passes into the gas-holder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Milling processes within the last twenty-five years have been completely transformed by the introduction of the roller mill and middlings purifier. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He it was who invented a gas purifier, liquid gas meter, and other useful contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The leaders under whom men fought in war were often the same men as the sacrificial purifiers who were their early priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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