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MFI nanosheets were recovered by centrifugation at 14,500 RCF for 1 min and decantation.

From Nature • Mar. 14, 2017

The specimen must be repeatedly washed by decantation, until the washings are perfectly free from chlorine, when the whole may be thrown onto a filter merely to drain.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

DECANTATION.—The purification of conjugial love may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, as effected by the chemists, and called decantation, 145.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

This crude material should be melted under water and washed by decantation several times with hot water.

From Organic Syntheses by Conant, James Bryant

Wash as much as possible by decantation with hot water.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius