How to Use filter paper in a Sentence

filter paper

noun

• While still in the hospital, a child's heel is pricked within a day or two of birth and small spots of blood are collected on a filter paper card.
  — jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• What’s more, the filter paper is effective at brewing tea.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2022
• The room had shelves filled with glass jars of kissing bugs crawling on filter paper folded accordion style.
  — Marc Burckhardt, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• But the lab tests for newborn screenings generally don't use all of the half-dozen or so drops of blood collected on filter paper cards.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
• After filling open-ended tea bags made of conventional filter paper, students will add a string to the bag and then iron the opening closed.
  — Ginger Brashinger, Daily Southtown, 27 June 2018
• This involves placing a piece of filter paper for 60 seconds between a dog’s lower eyelid and cornea.
  — Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• Once the liquid was fully absorbed, the testers pressed dry filter paper on the interior gusset for 30 seconds, then noted how wet or dry the paper felt and appeared.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
• Working with her husband, who was also a chemist, Ms. Free figured out how to impregnate strips of filter paper with chemicals that turned blue when glucose was present.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2021
• When the mini-habitat lands on the moon, the fancy can will automatically release enough water to wet a piece of nutrient-laden filter paper.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2013
• The tea filter bag is made of natural wood pulp filter paper, which is biodegradable and more environmentally friendly than standard tea bags.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2022
• Typically, researchers use pipettes to apply microliters of the protein solution to sample holders and blot away the excess with filter paper.
  — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• In 1963, Guthrie pioneered a simple test for detecting the genetic disorder phenylketonuria, commonly called PKU, using just a few drops of blood collected from a baby's heel and placed on filter paper.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• The jet uses external flow devices to collect airborne particulate on filter paper and can analyze samples on board to detect radioactivity.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024