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scrubbers
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n. (plural of scrubber English)
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Scrubbers is a 1983 British drama film directed by Mai Zetterling and starring Amanda York and Chrissie Cotterill. It was shot primarily in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. It was inspired by the success of the 1979 film Scum.
A novel based on the film, and also entitled Scrubbers, was written by Alexis Lykiard and published in London by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1982.
Usage examples of "scrubbers".
All the aromas of food from the galley, the smell of machinery, the leather shoes, soap, after-shave lotion, even the farts, were duly sucked into the scrubbers and cleansed.
She talked knowledgeably about carbon dioxide scrubbers, carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, about the heating and cooling systems, and our biggest bugaboo, radiation.
We would have scrubbers to remove both carbon dioxide and most contaminants that might show up in our air, and detectors for carbon monoxide and a wide range of other poisons.
At new electric utility plants in other states, smokestacks a thousand feet high, supplemented by electrostatic filters and scrubbers that removed sulfur from smokestack gases, were reducing pollution to acceptable levels.
They told what a man was thinking even if he kept it to himself, and they explained why the scrubbers could never cleanse the air completely.