Supernatant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUPERNATANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a liquid overlying a sediment
• The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet.
• the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate
• supernatant liquid
ADJECTIVE:
• floating or swimming above
• denoting the liquid lying above a solid residue after crystallization, precipitation, centrifugation, or other process
• a volume of supernatant liquid
• Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water.
• of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the usually clear liquid overlying material deposited by settling, precipitation, or centrifugation

Words related to SUPERNATANT

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Words that contain SUPERNATANT

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How to use SUPERNATANT in a sentence

• Their presence is proved by the readiness with which they dissolve on warming with the supernatant urine to about the temperature of the blood.
• When cold, he pours off the supernatant fluid, and repeats the boiling three times at least with a fresh portion of water.
• If you have much supernatant Liquor, you may parboil more Mushrooms next day, and put them to the first.
• The supernatant liquid will exhibit a fine blue colour, if the minutest quantity of copper be present.
• The clear supernatant liquid gives percentages which are below, and the sediment percentages which are above, the average.
• The supernatant, clear wash-water is then decanted through the filter, so far as practicable without disturbing the precipitate, and a new portion of wash-water is added.
• The supernatant ether, however, was slightly turbid in appearance, a fact which was at first ignored.
• The heavy oil, which separates first, is about the same color as the light oil, but sometimes the portion which separates last has a browner shade than the supernatant oil.
• The supernatant water has now acquired a yellowish tinge, when it is run off carefully, and the blue deposit or sediment put into bags to drain.
• The mass is then boiled, when the supernatant oil is removed by skimming.
• By this time the whole of the insoluble matter will be at the bottom of the cup, and the supernatant solution will be clear.

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