noun
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The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; supernate
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Material that floats on the surface of a liquid
adjective
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(of a liquid) Lying above a sediment or precipitate
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Floating on the surface of a liquid
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oil supernatant on water
Examples of supernatant in a Sentence
The liquid is now run into neutralizing tanks containing sodium carbonate, and, after settling, the supernatant liquid, termed "light liquor," is run through bag filters and then on to bone-char filters, which have been previously used for the "heavy liquor."
The supernatant liquid is led into settling tanks, where a further amount of "gold is deposited, r and is then filtered through sawdust or sand, the sawdust being afterwards burnt and the gold separated from the ashes and the sand treated in the chloridizing vat.
The slime is cleaned out fortnightly or monthly, the zinc turnings being cleaned by rubbing and the supernatant liquor allowed to settle in the precipitating boxes or in separate vessels.
Discard the excess supernatant and resuspend the pellet in the 100 μl from the pipette.
The supernatant was applied to the first column using a 5 ml pipette and allowed to pass over the resin.
Very insoluble chromates, such as lead, remove all the color from the supernatant liquid.
The supernatant fluid above the crystals is a saturated solution of iodine.
The supernatant liquor is generally pathogen free and can be used for pasture irrigation without the drawbacks associated with raw effluent dispersal.
Plasma, fresh-frozen means the supernatant plasma separated from a whole blood donation or plasma collected by apheresis, frozen and stored.
Recommendation 31 Attention needs to be given to the effective design of systems for separating supernatant water from sludge and backwash solids.
Discard supernatant, and redissolve pellet in endotoxin free water.
If the precipitate settles readily, the supernatant liquor may be decanted through the filter paper, more water added to the precipitate and again decanted.