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Six example sentences with purify, each labelled with its topic.
Village distillers purify the rough spirit twice, drawing off the harsh first runs before anything reaches a bottle.
Cooking
Reed beds along the canal purify runoff from the highway before it ever reaches the trout stream below.
Environment
Trekkers boil or purify every liter they draw from mountain streams, since even clear water can carry parasites.
Travel
Biochemists purify the protein through several columns, discarding everything else until a single band shows on the gel.
Science
Chip makers purify silicon until fewer than one atom in a billion is anything else, or the transistors misbehave.
Technology
Ancient Egyptians purified water by letting it settle in clay jars, then pouring off the clear top.
History
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