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1. One who or that which clarifies; spec. a substance used to clarify liquids, etc.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 1 b. Fyre … is the clarifier of other elementes, if they be vycyate.
1706. Lond. Gaz., No. 4207/4. This great Clarifier dissolves Suffusions.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 560/2. The usual clarifiers are albumen, gelatine, acids, salts, blood, lime, plaster-of-paris, alum, heat, or alcohol.
2. techn. A vessel in which liquor or juice is clarified; spec. a large metallic pan or cauldron used in the clarification of sugar.
1822. Burrowes, Cycl., X. 286/2. Clarifiers are sometimes seen of one thousand gallons each.
1850. Nat. Encycl., XI. 594/1. The cane-juice … is conducted by channels from the mill to large flat-bottomed coppers or open pans called clarifiers.
