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The desalinator is a glass-covered airtight basin with a black base that absorbs the suns radiation.
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FLAKE: A desalinator pump, so I had to pump every night ...
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Besides its gigantic oven and six large burners, the bulking iron contraption has a built-in desalinator and a prodigious hand pump to bring water in from either the ocean or the rows of huge water-storage tanks down in the hold.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Water is made using a reverse osmosis desalinator.
Archive 2006-02-01 Thatsnews 2006
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There's a little desalinator piggybacked on his electrolyzer in case he gets thirsty, and a bunch of flaps and valves that do things he doesn't want to think about, when he has to piss or take a dump.
Starfish 1999
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Behind them, a transportable desalinator worked in a muddy remnant of the Salton Sea.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Behind them, a transportable desalinator worked in a muddy remnant of the Salton Sea.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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The salty water is introduced into the desalinator and left in the sun to evaporate; the air becomes saturated with water vapour and condensation occurs on the coolest surface: the glass.
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On board, she had a desalinator to make saltwater drinkable and kept a six-month supply of fruit and nut bars and freeze-dried meals, along with a small pot in which she grows bean sprouts.
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They didn't have to pump a manual desalinator for 30 minutes every time they wanted a cup of water.
The Seattle Times 2012
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