decantation
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MFI nanosheets were recovered by centrifugation at 14,500 RCF for 1 min and decantation.
From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017
Wash the precipitate twice by decantation with warm water; then transfer it to the filter with the aid of a stirring-rod with a rubber tip and a stream from the wash-bottle.
From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.
The mode of proceeding is to calcine the berry in a covered vessel, and well wash the resulting charcoal with boiling water by decantation.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
This crude material should be melted under water and washed by decantation several times with hot water.
From Organic Syntheses by Conant, James Bryant
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
By repeated decantations in this manner, various sediments are obtained of different degrees of fineness; the last sediment, or that which remains longed suspended in the liquor, being the finest.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
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