cloth filter

Woven mesh separator

A cloth filter is a piece of fabric used to strain liquids or trap particles.

Coffee can be brewed through a cloth filter instead of paper.

In water purification, cloth filters remove sediment and some pathogens: She poured the river water through a cloth filter before boiling it.

The term also applies to reusable fabric covers for air filtration systems.

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fabric · cheesecloth · gauze · coffee · drip coffee · cold brew · muslin · jelly bag · drip · sediment · pour · weave · fine · coarse · particles · tea · loose leaf · brewing

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filter material

cloth filtermetal screen

Woven metallic filtering barrier

sand filter · charcoal filter · HEPA filter

filtration method

cloth filtercentrifuge

Spinning density-separation device

distillation · evaporation · reverse osmosis · sedimentation · decantation

Family

cloth, filter, cloths, clothe, clothed, clothing, clothes, unclothed, filters

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G