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reflux [′rē‚fləks] (chemical engineering) In a chemical process, that part of the product stream that may be returned to the process to assist in giving increased conversion or recovery, as in distillation or liquid-liquid extraction. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Wyatt has a nervous habit of refluxing eggs out out of his mouth when agitated, while Earnest uses people's seats as walkways (even when people are sitting in them), and he gets an evil glint in his eye when he happens to have a mouthful of water. Bones were wet washed with 5 mL ultrapure nitric acid 67-70% (SeaStar Chemicals, British Columbia, Canada) in the Teflon vials and taken to dryness after refluxing for 3 hr. Azeotropic extractions were accomplished by placing the specimens in a soxhlet extraction and refluxing with an acetone-chloroform-methanol azeotrope for 16 hours (unless otherwise noted). |
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