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- noun Any of several
instruments in which fine particles (dust ) in a gas are analysed by blowing them through ajet onto a wetted plate, prior to being counted
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Examples
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Using an apparatus they developed called an impinger, a glass contraption that resembled a field hockey stick plunked into a vase, the two tested the air around apparently healthy babies in the New York Hospital nurseries, and discovered that half of the ones who showed no sign of staph 80/81 infection were colonized with the bug and shedding it into the air.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Using an apparatus they developed called an impinger, a glass contraption that resembled a field hockey stick plunked into a vase, the two tested the air around apparently healthy babies in the New York Hospital nurseries, and discovered that half of the ones who showed no sign of staph 80/81 infection were colonized with the bug and shedding it into the air.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Using an apparatus they developed called an impinger, a glass contraption that resembled a field hockey stick plunked into a vase, the two tested the air around apparently healthy babies in the New York Hospital nurseries, and discovered that half of the ones who showed no sign of staph 80/81 infection were colonized with the bug and shedding it into the air.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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