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 contraption precisely deposits droplets of chemical reagent onto filter paper.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2014
  • 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

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