precipitable

[ pri-sip-i-tuh-buhl ]

/ prɪˈsɪp ɪ tə bəl /

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adjective Chemistry.

capable of being precipitated.

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Origin of precipitable

First recorded in 1660–70; precipit(ate) + -able

Words nearby precipitable

precious few, precious metal, precious opal, precious stone, precipice, precipitable, precipitable water, precipitancy, precipitant, precipitate, precipitated

How to use precipitable in a sentence

Other metals precipitable by sulphuretted hydrogen must be absent as well as strong oxidising agents.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
A protein soluble in water and precipitable by dilute hydrochloric acid.
The Book of Cheese|Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
They found only 4.5 percent of tannin (precipitable by gelatin or alkaloids) in raw coffee.
All About Coffee|William H. Ukers
It differs from ordinary gelatin in462 being precipitable by acetic acid, alum, and acetate of lead.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley

Its salts would be precipitable by barium carbonate; the gallium salts are thrown down by this reagent.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley