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dewater en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old English wæter Middle English water English water English dewater From de- + water.

Meanings

1. To remove water from.
   • In the 20ᵗʰ century, when the mechanical separation of impurities based upon specific gravity separations and the removal of fine coal particles which are difficult to handle and dewater became the technology of choice, the bituminous coal mining industry produced vast quantities of both gob and fines. 2004, David A. Tillman, N. S. Harding, chapter 3, in Fuels of opportunity: characteristics and uses in combustion systems, →ISBN, page 89:
   • The starting feedstock (i.e., pineapple peel) for producing biochar and activated carbon was collected from a local market (Chienchen district, Kaohsiung, Taiwan). It was first dewatered in the sun and further dried in the air-circulating oven at 105 °C. 2023 December 6, Chi-Hung Tsai, Wen-Tien Tsai, Li-An Kuo, “Effect of Post-Washing on Textural Characteristics of Carbon Materials Derived from Pineapple Peel Biomass”, in Andrei Victor Sandu, editor, Materials, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:

Forms

Deriveds

dewaterable · dewaterer · dewaterability

Synonyms

unwater § Synonyms