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Definition of Decantations
1. decantation [n] - See also: decantation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decantations
Literary usage of Decantations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Instruction in Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1876)
"give decantation, n the number of decantations, and _ the fraction es a pressing
the proportion of the original amount of impurity still remaining in the ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1878)
"Precipitated in 10 min., washed, in 70 m in. with 2 litres water, by 6 decantations,
the CuO weighed 2.5165 grms., giving of the Cu present 100.13 pc 2d. ..."
3. Cyaniding Gold and Silver Ores: A Practical Treatise; Embracing Technical by Henry Forbes Julian, Edgar Smart, A. W. Allen (1921)
"With any quantity of solution ami any number of decantations, ... With equal
decantations let '/ = the quantity of liquor drawn off at each operation, ..."
4. The Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry edited by Edward Hart (1887)
"When no more ' 'silt'' can be easily removed from the sediment without
decanting "sand," the decantations are made into a different vessel and the ..."
5. Methods of Analysis and Laboratory Control of the Great Western Sugar Company by Great Western Sugar Company, Sidney J. Osborn (1920)
"When no more silt can be easily removed from the sediment without decanting sand,
the decantations are made into a different vessel and the subsidences so ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1902)
"It took five or six days to complete the separations, and that many decantations
of eighteen hours' standing gave a clear decantation at the last, ..."
7. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Graduated settlings and decantations have been advised, but these are insufficient,
as despite all care, more or less of light silt will float with the ..."
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