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wellscreens

wellscreens is the plural of wellscreen.

Meaning of wellscreen

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

Questions about wellscreens

What is wellscreens the plural of?
Wellscreens is the plural of wellscreen.

Words near wellscreens in the dictionary

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

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