sieve plate

The end wall of a sieve-tube element, containing many pores through which food material is conducted.

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The holotype is tubular 200 mm high, 47 mm in diameter, 18 mm in diameter at base (basiphytous), and 32 mm in diameter of upper part carrying the sieve plate. The paratype is 265 mm high, 50 mm in diameter, and at base it is broken.

Glass sponges off the Newfoundland (Northwest Atlantic): description of a new species of Dictyaulus (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Euplectellidae)

The only difference between this and the one used for hydro-distillation, the traditional alembic pot still, is that the former has a column that sits on the pot with a sieve plate at the bottom.

Essential oils and steam distillation

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