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nature's bouncer, deciding what gets through and what gets stuck at the door
means The process of passing a liquid or gas through a material to separate out the solid particles or impurities it carries.
from From Latin 'filtrum,' a piece of felt — the original strainer, since matted wool was used to clarify wine and other liquids. The word traveled through Medieval Latin 'filtrare' (to strain through felt) into the broader language of separating the wanted from the unwanted, eventually giving us 'filter' and its more clinical sibling 'filtration.'
- kidney quota
- Your kidneys filter about 180 liters of blood daily
- sand magic
- Slow sand filters use a living microbial top layer
- coffee origin
- The paper filter was invented by a German housewife in 1908
- size matters
- Membranes can block particles smaller than a virus
- liver too
- Your liver filters toxins your kidneys can't catch
brita water pitcher filters — removes chlorine and improves taste in 35+ million households worldwide
kidney dialysis filtration — filters waste from blood in 2 million patients globally with end-stage renal disease