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sieving

sieving ‎(plural sievings)

The act of passing something through a sieve.
Material that has passed through a sieve.
- 2008, D. K. Maheshwari, Potential Microorganisms For Sustainable Agriculture (page 79)
  The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation.