Definition of Sedimenting

1. Verb. (present participle of sediment) ¹

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Definition of Sedimenting

1. sediment [v] - See also: sediment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedimenting

sedimental
sedimentary
sedimentary cataract
sedimentary clay
sedimentary rock
sedimentary rocks
sedimentate
sedimentation
sedimentation coefficient
sedimentation constant
sedimentation rate
sedimentation velocity
sedimentations
sedimentator
sedimented
sedimenting (current term)
sedimentologic
sedimentological
sedimentologies
sedimentologist
sedimentologists
sedimentology
sedimentometer
sediments
sedimentum
sedimentum lateritium
sedition
seditionaries
seditionary
seditions

Literary usage of Sedimenting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1907)
"L APPARATUS FOR SHAKING AND sedimenting SPUTUM SPECIMENS. A. The shaking of sputum.—Anyone who has had occasion to make many examinations ..."

2. Transactions of the Colorado State Medical Society by Colorado State Medical Society (1900)
"Wright considers that this sedimenting power of the blood is a trustworthy ... So in typhoid the sedimenting power of the blood may be acquired too late in ..."

3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Given previous estimates of the molecular size of LTP we concluded that the slower sedimenting peak observed at high ionic strength represents monomeric LTP ..."

4. Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy And Effects by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"It appears that either smaller oil droplets are less able to associate with sedimenting particles than are larger droplets, or the association results in ..."

5. Clinical bacteriology and haematology for practitioners by Walter d'Este Emery (1908)
"Now proceed to put the emulsion into the sedimenting-tubes with the mercury. ... Then seal the open end of the sedimenting-tube in the flame, ..."

6. Organic Matter and Rice by Stephen Banta, Corazon V. Mendoza, International Rice Research Institute (1984)
"The problems of polydis- persity are more difficult to overcome because numerous molecules of different sizes and diffusion coefficients and sedimenting at ..."

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