mother liquor

American  

noun

1. the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.

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Etymology

Origin of mother liquor

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

This is discussed above with reference to the instability of the crystals outside the mother liquor.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017

The crystals were mounted and sealed in capillaries in the mother liquor or covered in Paratone, measured at room temperature and at 100 K and crystals of various sizes were used.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017

Molten alloys containing more than 80% of silver deposit on cooling the alloy AuAg9, little gold remaining in the mother liquor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

It will absorb this, and thus be enabled to renew its evolution and growth when put back again into the original mother liquor.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

Most of the sugar stayed in the hogsheads, while some of it trickled with the mother liquor, molasses, through perforations in the bottoms into the vat beneath.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell