aqueous phase

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The water portion of a system consisting of two liquid phases, one that is primarily water and a second that is a liquid immiscible with water.

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The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.
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The families announced along with it that they had entered a “phase of silence” surrounding the details of the new deal.
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To that end, the budget postpones federal phase-out of incandescent electric bulbs.
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Instead, the military commission proceedings are bogged down in a pre-trial phase, as it has been for the past three years.
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Arriving in Italy means they have made it to the next phase, but they have most certainly not reached the end of their journeys.
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But between the phase of schooling and the phase of adult learning there is an intermediate stage.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).
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The moment he passed out of her sight some phase of individuality promptly lit its torch.
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But this was but a passing phase, and soon the thirst for glory called the young soldier to sterner things.
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The second phase was the dangerous one for Rita, and during a certain luncheon at Romanos her fate hung in the balance.
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