Fractionation Synonyms

frăk′shə-nā ′ shən
A process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fractional process

Words Related to Fractionation

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Fractionation Sentence Examples

  • Silicon iodoform, SiHI 3, is formed by the action of hydriodic acid on silicon, the product, which contains silicon tetraiodide, being separated by fractionation.

  • Despite these strong isotope shifts, we found a largely uniform isotope fractionation.

  • We have examined the importance of isotope selective photodissociation / fractionation to gas mass estimation in molecular clouds.

  • Mansfield to facilitate the fractionation of paraffin and coaltar distillates, consisted in having a pipe leading from the inclined delivery tube of the still to the still again, so that any vapour which condensed in the delivery tube was returned to the still.

  • By such a study in the ultra-violet region of a fraction prepared from crude yttria he detected a new element victorium, and subsequently by elaborate fractionation obtained the element itself.