dialyser
Britishnoun
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As colloid he employed a sheet of parchment paper, which he stretched on a ring of wood or caoutchouc, and floated the apparatus so constructed—the dialyser—on the surface of pure water in a glass dish; he then poured into the dialyser the mixture of substances which it was desired to separate.
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Let us suppose that this mixture contained sugar and gum; the crystalloidal sugar soon passed through the parchment paper, and was found in the water outside, but the colloidal gum remained in the dialyser.
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If the mixture in the dialyser contained two crystalloids, the greater part of the more diffusible of these passed through the parchment in a short time along with only a little of the less diffusible; a partial separation was thus effected.
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From Time Magazine Archive
If a solution, say of salt, be placed in a drum provided with a parchment bottom, termed a "dialyser," and the drum and its contents placed in a larger vessel of water, the salt will pass through the membrane.
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