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Definition of Coagulants
1. coagulant [n] - See also: coagulant
Medical Definition of Coagulants
1. Exogenous substances used to promote blood coagulation. The endogenous blood coagulation factors are considered to be coagulants only when administered as drugs. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coagulants
Literary usage of Coagulants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Water-supplies: Requirements, Resources, and the Construction of Works by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Harry Luman Russell, Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"The Use of coagulants. — Various chemicals when added to water will combine with
certain substances ordinarily present, forming precipitates which are more ..."
2. Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal by William Hubert Burr (1902)
"Rapid Filtration with coagulants.—It has been seen that the rate of filtration
through open sand filters does not usually exceed 2 to 4 million gallons per ..."
3. Water Purification Plants and Their Operation by Milton Frederick Stein (1920)
"Introduction of coagulants. The point of introduction of the coagulants (aluminum
or iron sulphate) deserves special consideration in water-softening. ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"... AND coagulants CHEMICAL, REAGENTS 59. By far the larger part of all commercial
water-softening today is done by means of only lime and soda ash, ..."
5. Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry (1895)
"The writer claims, therefore to have indisputably shown that a coagulum is not
an effectual barrier to the diffusion of coagulants ; second, that coagulants ..."
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