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
This crude material should be melted under water and washed by decantation several times with hot water.
From Organic Syntheses by James Bryant Conant
Wash the precipitate twice by decantation, and finally transfer it to the original filter.
From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Henry P. Talbot
Much time may often be saved by washing precipitates by decantation, i.e., by pouring over them, while still in the original vessel, considerable volumes of wash-water and allowing them to settle.
From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Henry P. Talbot
The silica is washed by decantation two or three times with hydrochloric acid and hot water, before being thrown on to the filter.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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 Antoine Lavoisier
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