Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body of water interposed as a bar to the passage or escape of gas.
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Examples
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The tunnel must dip then come up like the water-seal trap under a kitchen sink.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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The tunnel must dip then come up like the water-seal trap under a kitchen sink.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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For example, water-seal slabs in latrines reduce the breeding sites for culicine mosquitos, vectors of filariasis; treatment of excrete prior to its disposal can kill the eggs and cysts of many human parasites (Ascaris, Entamoeba, and Schistosoma spp), thus preventing contamination of both ground and water.
Chapter 4 1992
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Fixed-dome plants are regarded as leaktight if the water-seal test shows less than 2% water loss, and the gas-seal test shows less than 5% gas loss.
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One other factor to be discussed with women in early planning is the reuse of gray water for flushing of water-seal latrines.
Chapter 10 1985
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Thus, the water-seal outfit will cook the food in the cans in about one-fourth less time than will the water bath of the one-period cold-pack canning method.
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In one of the steam-pressure methods, what is known as a _water-seal outfit_ is required, and in the other a device called a _pressure cooker_ is employed.
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"Gullies" in cellar floors should be properly trapped; and this does _not_ mean that they shall have bell-traps nor siphon-traps with shallow water-seal.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Vessels for, with a pressure cooker, with the water-seal outfit, with tin cans,
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-- A water-seal outfit, which may be purchased in stores that sell canning supplies, consists of a large metal vessel into which fits a perforated metal basket designed to hold jars of food.
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