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decantation

[′dē‚kan′tā·shən]
(engineering)
A method for mechanical dewatering of a wet solid by pouring off the liquid without disturbing underlying sediment or precipitate.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Decantation

 

the pouring off of liquid from underlying sediment. Decantation is a laboratory and technical method of washing amorphous precipitates, making possible a more complete removal of mother liquor than does washing the precipitate through a filter. It is also used to extract soluble substances from powdered solid raw material (for example, for removing the sugar solution after treating sugar beet cossettes with hot water).

REFERENCES

Voskresenskii, P. I. Tekhnika laboratornykh rabot, 9th ed. Moscow, 1969.
Kasatkin, A. G. Osnovnye protsessy i apparaty khimicheskoi tekhnologii, 7th ed. Moscow, 1961.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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