Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The operation of cleansing by washing and decanting.
Wiktionary
- n. The process of separating the lighter particles from the heavier ones by means of an upward directed stream of gas or liquid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
Examples
“It is principally from the starch of the bitter cassava that tapioca is prepared by elutriation and granulating on hot plates.”
“It is contained in the cellular tissue of the stem, and is separated by bruising and elutriation.”
“Mr. Julian then referred briefly to the kinds of emery, its preparation by elutriation, etc., and cautioned operators against using rouge or tin putty powder in polishing rock sections, although they may be employed in polishing certain minerals and gems.”
“Morasses in great length of time undergo variety of changes, first by elutriation, and afterwards by fermentation, and the consequent heat.”
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
“Though coal and clay are frequently produced in this manner, yet I have no doubt, but that they are likewise often produced by elutriation; in situations on declivities the clay is washed away down into the valleys, and the phlogistic part or coal left behind; this circumstance is seen in many valleys near the beds of rivers, which are covered recently by a whitish impure clay, called water-clay.”
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
“The third elutriation seems to consist of vegetable acid, which by means unknown appears to be converted into all other acids.”
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
“Human monocytes were obtained by leukopheresis from HIV-1 and hepatitis seronegative donors and were purified by counter-current centrifugal elutriation.”
“LEAP analysts are viewing the current events in the context of the general crisis that began in the late 1970s and is now in its fourth, final and most grave stage, the so-called 'elutriation phase', where the collapse of real economy begins.”
“The growth rate and critical size were then measured in detail by elutriation.”
“B, Graphs showing the percent of budded cells as a function of cell size, from separate independent elutriation experiments with the indicated strains and metabolite treatments.”
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whichbe The process of separating the lighter particles from the heavier ones by means of an upward directed stream of gas or liquid. Oct 14, 2008