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e|lu|tri|a|tor
e|lu|tri|a|tor «ih LOO tree AY tuhr», noun.
an apparatus for elutriating: »

Current trends are towards long-period samplers [of air pollution],…incorporating elutriators to reject particles over 10 microns in size, which in the normal process of respiration do not enter the alveoli of the lungs (Albert Roberts).


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