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wellscreen

wellscreen noun: a screen used to filter a fluid in a well.

Noun

wellscreen (plural wellscreens)

  1. A screen used to filter a fluid in a well.
    • Brown and Glynn (2003) suspended sacks with calcite and dolomite in wellscreens in acid groundwater and noted dissolution rates that were 1000 times smaller than theoretically expected, which may be related to the high concentrations of heavy metals in the acid mine drainage that was the source of...2005, C. A. J. Appelo, D[ieke] Postma, Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution, 2nd edition, Leiden; London […]: A.A. Balkema Publishers, →ISBN, page 217

Forms of wellscreen

pluralwellscreens

Origin of wellscreen

From well + screen.

Questions about wellscreen

What does wellscreen mean?
Wellscreen means a screen used to filter a fluid in a well.
What part of speech is wellscreen?
Wellscreen is a noun.
What is the plural of wellscreen?
The plural of wellscreen is wellscreens.

Words near wellscreen in the dictionary

  1. Wells River
  2. wells up
  3. Wells-next-the-Sea
  4. Wellsboro
  5. Wellsburg
  6. wellscreen
  7. wellscreens
  8. Wellsean
  9. Wellseans
  10. Wellsford
  11. Wellsian

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