sedimentator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sedimentat(ion) + -or.[1]
Noun
[edit]sedimentator (plural sedimentators)
- Any device for separating sediments from liquids, such as a centrifuge.
- 1976, United States. Office of International Marketing, Air and Water Purification and Pollution Control Equipment, page 115:
- The sewage is pretreated mechanically before proceeding to a sedimentator with a sprinkling system and a sludge collection hopper connected to an aeration tank.
- 2003, F. Kongoli, Metallurgical and Materials Processing, page 339:
- The excesses of iron and sulfur can be removed from the sedimentator as a non-toxic sediment after the second stage.
- 2005, S. N. Kaul, Wastewater Management: With Special Reference to Tanneries, page 50:
- The liquid is then pumped into the hydrodynamic sedimentator.
- 2021, Marcel Van de Voorde, Hydrogen Production and Energy Transition:
- The liquid current discharged from the sedimentator consists mainly of the water produced during the quench phase and those resulting from acid washing.
- (zoology) An organism that feeds on bacteria or small algae that are found in sediments.
- 1997, The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 468:
- In addition, by analogy with shallow-water suspension-feeders of corresponding groups, filtering sponges and bivalve molluscs (Limopsidae and Mytilidae) and sedimentors such as serpulomorph polychaetes, Bryozoa and most likely crinoids can be included among triptonovores.
- 2012, Birger Pejiler, “Zooplanktic indicators of trophy and their food”, in C. Forsberg, J.A. Johansson, editors, Forest Water Ecosystems:
- The survivors in hypertrophic lakes thus mostly consist of hig-efficiency bacteria feeders and of raptors, which also seems to be in accordances with Patalas (1954), (Pejler (1965) and Andersson et al. (1975). This can be achieved partly by a change in species composition, partly by changing proportions in the diet, implying that a greater fraction will consist of bacteria for the sedimentators and microfiltrators.
- 2012, Henri J. Dumont, J. Green, Rotatoria, page 61:
- Excessive growth of blue-green algae inhibits the development of most sedimentators by eliminating most of the small algae which are the basic food of the phytophagous sedimentators (Edmondson, 1965; Pourriot, 1965; Dumont, 1977).
References
[edit]- American Illustrated Medical Dictionary (1919).
- A Practical Medical Dictionary (Stedman, 1922).
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Sedimentator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 374, column 2.