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Abietine
noun · 78% connection
A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Ablution
noun · 78% connection
The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Albumin
noun · 78% connection
A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Autotype
noun · 78% connection
A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Barilla
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Butanone
noun · 78% connection
colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesive…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Caramel
noun · 78% connection
Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Cassava
noun · 78% connection
cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Coagulation
noun · 78% connection
The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Corrasion
noun · 78% connection
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Displacement
noun · 78% connection
The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Edulcorate
verb · 78% connection
To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Fibrin
noun · 78% connection
A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the unio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Globulin
noun · 78% connection
An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Gum
noun · 78% connection
A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Hardness
noun · 78% connection
The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Hemiprotein
noun · 78% connection
An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.
Insoluble
adjective · 78% connection
Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lixiviating, separating, soluble, substance, insoluble.