noun
separator
an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
In a sentence
Six example sentences with separator, each labelled with its topic.
The dairy runs warm milk through a separator, and cream climbs out one spout while skim milk leaves the other.
Cooking
The lab's bench separator spun the sample for ten minutes until a clear yellow layer sat on top.
Science
Wastewater plants place a grit separator early in the line so sand never reaches the delicate biological tanks.
Environment
The cream separator of 1878 let a farm skim milk in minutes, and dairies across Europe bought one within a decade.
History
A cell separator spins a donor's blood, keeps the platelets, and returns everything else through the same needle.
Medicine
An oil separator on the engine spins droplets out of the crankcase vapor before the air goes back through the intake.
Technology
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