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Fine spray   /faɪn spreɪ/   Listen
Fine spray

noun
1.
Precipitation in very small drops.






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"Fine spray" Quotes from Famous Books



... Clifford, picking up a brush and sending a fine spray of turpentine over Elliott, who promptly ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers

... basket of wire gauze surrounding an inner stationary vessel pierced with numerous small holes, through which the heated water discharged by the air pump finds its way into the basket, to be thrown out in the form of fine spray to a distance of 20 ft. at each side. The drops are received in the tank or pond, and in their rapid passage through the air are sufficiently cooled to be ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various

... is, amongst other things, helped forward in its onward movement through the apparatus. The gas then passes to the washers or scrubbers, a series of tall towers, from which water is allowed to fall as a fine spray, and by means of which large quantities of ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, carbonic acid and oxide, and cyanogen compounds, are removed. In the scrubber the water used in keeping the coke, with which it is filled, damp, absorbs these compounds, and the ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin

... solution six grains to three ounces of water in fine spray is good. This goes right to the wind-pipe and contracts the ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... the exclamations, sighs, and whispered comments of the bystanders came the murmur of the water trickling from a spigot at the head of each slab; a tiny stream that flowed forth only to fall in fine spray upon the marble. Through the small arched windows a gray light stole in on the exposed bodies, bringing each muscle into bold relief, revealing the ghastly tints of the lifeless flesh, and imparting a sinister aspect to the tattered clothing hung around the room ...
— Monsieur Lecoq • Emile Gaboriau



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