(n.) One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
(n.) A gas washer. See under Gas.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(2) The effects of 100, 50, and 0% (tap water control) dilutions of cooling tower, machine washings, and scrubber and bottom ash effluents on the germination and growth of pea and wheat crops were also monitored.
(3) Performance was not affected (P greater than .10) by the use of pot scrubbers during the 84-d growing phase.
(4) Fly ash and scrubber sludge can be safely disposed of using properly managed techniques to ensure that any potential impact from elements such as boron, molybdenum, or selenium is rendered insignificant.
(5) This system consists of a gas-operated diaphragm pump, demand controller, liquid regenerator with heater and gas scrubber, and ancillary equipment.
(6) The GEM includes a ventilator-driven slave bellows, a CO2 scrubber, one-way valves to ensure unidirectional flow, and tubing to complete the small-volume low-compliance system, which fits easily between the ventilator (VENT) and the endotracheal tube (ETT).
(7) As shown by a comparison of urban odor source related citizen complaint data versus source measurement results and types of successful abatement actions on an urban scale, an air scrubber system to serve these buildings together with the substitution of ground injection to replace field sprinkling of liquid waste would be expected to achieve the improvement in odor control comparable to urban industrial sources with similar reduction or elimination of odor complaints.
(8) Mobilization of vagrant heavy metals may be significantly increased by contact of baghouse dusts or scrubber slurries with acidic effluents emanating from acid plants designed to produce H2SO4 as a smelter by-product.
(9) The scrubber and bottom ash effluent was found to contain large amounts of solids and had high biochemical and chemical oxygen demands.
(10) In Trial 3, 120 steers (means initial BW, 286 kg) were grouped in 12 pens and limit-fed an all-concentrate diet for 84 d. Sixty steers were provided with six pot scrubbers each.
(11) The result was a $5m donation that helped pay for the scrubber.
(12) Treatments were 1) 85% concentrate-15% corn silage diet, 2) 100% concentrate diet, and 3) 100% concentrate diet + ruminal insertion of eight plastic pot scrubbers per steer.
(13) From d 113 to 167, steers provided with four or eight pot scrubbers or fed the 85% concentrate diet had greater (P less than .10) gains than steers fed the 100% concentrate diet without pot scrubbers.
(14) The principle of operation of the scrubber is based on the production of a fine mist in a rapidly moving airstream with ultimate collection of the airborne particles by impingement into the film of liquid formed upon impaction of the mist droplets on the scrubber walls.
(15) Steers fed the 100% concentrate diet received zero, four or eight pot scrubbers.
(16) In line with the then emerging air pollution control regulations Union Electric installed a limestone injection wet scrubber sulfur dioxide removal system on an intermediate size coal-fired utility boiler at its Meramec Power Plant on an experimental basis in September, 1968.
(17) A new large-volume air sampler called the "simple liquid scrubber" is described.
(18) Is this acceptable or will he be sending the tattoo police around with their wire scrubbers?"
(19) Incinerators equipped with modern pollution control devices (electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, dry scrubbers, spray towers) and operated at optimum temperature with sufficient oxygen, turbulence (mixing) and residence time for complete combustion appear to minimize ash, elemental, gaseous and organic emissions.
(20) The physicochemical properties of the upstream and downstream waters from the Upper Ganga canal, discharged cooling tower water, machine washings, and scrubber and bottom ash effluents of a 530 MW Kasimpur coal-fired thermal power plant have been determined, and their effects directly on fertile soil and indirectly on pea (Pisum sativam) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) crops have also been studied.
Slovenly
Definition:
(adv.) a slovenly manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) James has had to deal with a couple of speculative crosses from the Slovenes in this half, but nothing dramatic.
(2) Results of the inquiry among Slovene physicians regarding their smoking habits and accompanying symptoms are presented.
(3) Also, even if a dangler is in no danger of being misinterpreted, enough readers have trained themselves to spot danglers that a writer who leaves it incurs the risk of being judged as slovenly.
(4) The Hypo bank, based in Klagenfurt in southern Austria close to the Croatian and Slovene borders, acted as financier to the late Jorg Haider, the far-right Austrian leader.
(5) There is no clearer indication that this is a dark time in the world's history than the fact that the director who made the slovenly, inept Watchmen is now getting to reboot Superman.
(6) 1339 Slovene school children have been examined for disgnaties and caries in the neighbouring areas of three countries bordering Slovene homeland: parts of Italy, Austria and Hungary, which means in different socioeconomic conditions.
(7) For instance he removed: "Ted looked slovenly: his suit jacket wrinkled as if being pulled from behind, his pants hanging, unbelted, in great folds, his hair black and greasy in the light."
(8) The slovenly accommodation, low, late and missing pay, and unsafe workplaces all result in part from the freewheeling market economics Qatar encourages in the construction sector.
(9) The east Europeans, Austrians and Slovenes want to help the Macedonians close the Greek border.
(10) Pre-season set a precedent for a turbulent few months, with Dave Hockaday sacked and replaced by Darko Milanic , the Slovene who lasted 30 days in the job.
(11) The Slovenes only let in four goals during qualifying, put Guus Hiddink and Andriy Arshavin's Russia out in the play-offs, in Valter Birsa and Robert Koren can boast two of the tournament's standout players so far, and in 25-year-old Udinese star Samir Handanovic have one of the most promising goalkeepers in the world.
(12) The visitors forged several opportunities to take maximum points from the King Power Stadium but had to settle for only one because of their slovenly finishing and good saves by Kasper Schmeichel.
(13) The Slovak and Slovene ministers were not far behind.
(14) By this was meant an end to the run of presentational accidents that made the leader’s team look amateur: the Liverpool-baiting photo of Miliband brandishing the Sun newspaper ; his slovenly public wrestle with a bacon sandwich ; failure to get a personalised message on the wreath laid at first world war commemorations .
(15) Can the Slovenes do anything with this rare chance?
(16) All this demonstrates a grisly trend of marginalising the deprived – not only in sentiment, but in slovenly language that denigrates a 21st century epidemic.
(17) The Croats were genocidal fascists; the Muslims of Bosnia were Islamic fundamentalists; the Albanians of Kosovo were rapists and terrorists; the Slovenes were secessionist, German-worshiping lackeys; the Germans and Austrians were bent on destroying Yugoslavia to erect a fourth reich.
(18) After correction for underascertainment, a prevalence of 1 in 6023 was estimated in the Slovene population (1,999,477 in 1990).
(19) The wily Slovene party chief, Milan Kucan, long the most acute analyst of the Milosevic peril, had called the Serb's bluff.
(20) Yugoslavia was formed in December 1918 as "The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes".