(n.) The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
(n.) That which falls in drops.
(n.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
(n.) The substance extracted by distilling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(2) A transient increase in the membrane potential was observed when distilled water was applied to the membrane adapted to an appropriate salt solution, which was similar to the water response observed in taste cells.
(3) The distribution of the kations in the hair can be changed by washing with distilled water.
(4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
(5) Only a drastic osmotic shock in distillated water as a mean to disrupt mitochondrial membrane was found to strongly increase the actual rate of the rotenone-sensitive activity.
(6) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(7) Sections are brought to water, stained in Delafield's alum hematoxylin for 10 minutes, washed in tap water for 10 minutes, counterstained in 1% Procion brillant orange M-GS for 15 minutes and washed in distilled water for 10 minutes.
(8) Surfaces of the specimens made with slurry water were significantly harder than those of specimens made with distilled water.
(9) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
(10) We find that freeze-drying is the most reliable and easy method for molecules that withstand distilled water; freeze-etching can be successfully applied to transmembrane proteins (even in the presence of detergents or salt); the glycerol-spray technique provides an excellent alternative to the cryotechniques in particular for studies of single linear molecules.
(11) The effect of intravenously administered distilled water was examined alone and during alkalization in a patient with gross hematuria associated with the sickle cell trait.
(12) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(13) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(14) Added NADH had no effect on O2 consumption at 80 mosM but sharply stimulated it when platelet suspensions were exposed to 60 mosM media by pretreatment with distilled water.
(15) Thai rice (25 g) was boiled with 500 ml of distilled water for 30 min.
(16) Acidic rinsing resulted in an immediate 90% reduction in exhaled ammonia in all subjects, and a return to 50% of baseline levels occurred within 1 h. Depletion that resulted from tooth brushing or distilled water alone was not significant.
(17) No growth of Coccidioides immitis occurred when fluid from infected tissue or arthrospores suspended in distilled water were plated on the surface of Sabouraud medium, solidified with refined agar, and containing 20 mg of polymyxin B per liter.
(18) A traction test of bodies prepared from Superpont C + B wal also to assess the range of firmness in relation to the period of storage in distilled water.
(19) 0-2-0-4 mM-NaCl show lower rates of net salt loss in distilled water and higher rates of net salt uptake form dilute NaCl solutions than do populations from freshwaters of ca.
(20) The vesicles suspended in saline retained 100 kilodalton protein of which amount is correlated with prodigiosin level, but the 100 kDa protein was found in the supernatant when the vesicles were lysed in distilled water.
Evaporation
Definition:
(n.) The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.
(n.) The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.
(n.) That which is evaporated; vapor.
(n.) See Vaporization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(2) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(3) The method comprised adsorption on Extrelut column from alkaline plasma, elution with diethyl ether-methylene chloride, evaporation in the presence of 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and injection of the acid solution onto a mu Bondapak C18 column, using acetonitrile-0.025 M potassium dihydrogenphosphate as mobile phase and ultraviolet detection at 210 nm.
(4) It is shown that "excision" and "evaporation" of tissues took 15-45 minutes.
(5) Subsequent developments discussed include complementary replicas, replica interpretation with stereo micrograph and reversal negatives, replica reinforcement, and control of resistance evaporation.
(6) Endothelial shape changes were quantified by using a monolayer of endothelial cells grown on a small (10(-3) cm2) evaporated gold electrode and measuring the changes in electrical impedance.
(7) Slight changes of mean skin temperature and respiratory evaporative heat loss could not account for compensation.
(8) After evaporation to dryness, the residue is reconstituted in mobile phase.
(9) Further along the south coast, in Folkestone and Hythe, Ukip has again moved from fourth to second, according to the poll, but the Conservatives look set to hold the seat as a challenge from the Lib Dems evaporates.
(10) Measurements were made before feedings, during the first part of the night, and evaporation rate values were expressed as grams per square meter of body surface area per hour.
(11) Where once Gaga was mysterious and her music unavoidable, the mystique has evaporated and the music easy to miss.
(12) The energy of radiation at the guide outlet being 9 mJ, the resources of fiber work remained at a high level (greater than 10(4) impulses) whereas high velocity of tissue evaporation allowed elimination of an area 3 mm3 in volume during 1 minute, with the rate of impulse repetition amounting to 10 Hz.
(13) A recovery study indicated that no measurable degradation of reserpine occurs during evaporation of the CHCI3 extract.
(14) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(15) BNP Paribas told investors in two of its funds that they would not be able to withdraw money because it was no longer able to value the assets in them, due to a "complete evaporation of liquidity" in the market.
(16) When air was blown on the dentine, the rate of evaporation increased significantly.
(17) The organic phase was dried with anhydrous sodium sulphate before evaporation.
(18) Dik-dik antelopes lost about 50% more heat evaporatively when exposed to the sun compared to the shade at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 28 degrees C or a Ta of 40 degrees C in a climatic chamber.
(19) Liverpool, wearing black armbands before the 26th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster on Wednesday, appeared on course for a comfortable victory in the immediate aftermath of Sterling’s goal as Newcastle’s resistance evaporated.
(20) Skin wettedness (w) was evaluated as the ratio of the observed Esk to the maximum evaporative capacity of the environment.