Refining

Examples

• The most practical methods of refining salt today are known as the Grainer, Vacuum Pan and Alberger systems. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I am in too sorry a state to understand what you are refining on, said the wretched man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The imagination is not fed, but is held down to recapitulating, cataloguing, and refining what is already known. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The compounded rubber goes from the mixing mills to refining mills, to be prepared for the calenders. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This batch of material goes back for another crushing, so that everything is subjected to an equality of refining. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Commercially, charcoal is used on a large scale in the refining of sugars, sirups, and oils. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Any future development, however elaborate it may be, is only an extending and a refining of this simple act of inference. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Electrolytic processes of refining copper are also largely used, as described in Farmer’s patent, No. 322,170, July 14, 1885. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Except when the refining process of Art judiciously removes from them all resemblance to Nature, I distinctly object to tears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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