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  • "It's harder making puns out of words that mean things like airpump."

    Doctor’s Orders Diane Duane 2000

  • The murmur of his airpump seemed to grow in his head.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • The rotary airpump began again its normal subdued, whickering whirr.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • If you are adamant that you aren't going to spend the few extra pounds on a filter to attach to the airpump, then don't forget that the pump needs to be running 24-hours a day, even if it's a bit noisy.

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

  • If you are adamant that you aren't going to spend the few extra pounds on a filter to attach to the airpump, then don't forget that the pump needs to be running 24-hours a day, even if it's a bit noisy.

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

  • This makes them very easy to keep because it is not necessary to have any airpump, filtration, or aeration at all in their tank.

    Aquarium Supplies 2008

  • I have said nothing adequate about the railway system, or the electric telegraph, nor about the calculus, or lithography, the airpump, or the voltaic battery; the discovery of Uranus or Neptune, and more than a hundred asteroids; the relation of meteoric streams to comets; nothing of the expeditions by land and sea that have been sent forth by various governments for the determination of important astronomical or geographical questions; nothing of the costly and accurate experiments they have caused to be made for the ascertainment of fundamental physical data.

    History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

  • I have said nothing adequate about the railway system, or the electric telegraph, nor about the calculus, or lithography, the airpump, or the voltaic battery; the discovery of Uranus or Neptune, and more than a hundred asteroids; the relation of meteoric streams to comets; nothing of the expeditions by land and sea that have been sent forth by various governments for the determination of important astronomical or geographical questions; nothing of the costly and accurate experiments they have caused to be made for the ascertainment of fundamental physical data.

    History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846

  • a filter and an airpump are very different. is it a stone under water blowing bubbles? or is it hanging on the sides making a waterfall?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • If by means of the airpump we remove from a bell-jar the atmospheric air (except an insignificant residue), the quantity of light within it remains unchanged; it is the vibrating ether we see. [

    Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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