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Example sentences for "decant"

Lexicographically close words:
decamp; decamped; decamping; decanal; decani; decantation; decanted; decanter; decanters; decanting
  1. Then carefully decant off the supernatant water, pour the 3½ quarts of rose water or orange water upon the zinc-white, stir thoroughly, and fill in bottles.

  2. Allow undissolved powder to settle, then decant the supernatant fluid to a clean 100 c.

  3. Decant off the green alcohol and fill a further 300 c.

  4. Allow to stand twenty-four hours, then centrifugalise thoroughly and decant the supernatant fluid into a well-stoppered bottle.

  5. Boil for five minutes, allow to stand, and decant off clear fluid from sediment.

  6. If the whey is cloudy when removed from the steamer allow it to stand for forty-eight hours in the ice chest and then decant off the clear fluid--or filter through a Berkefeld filter candle.

  7. Decant off the clear fluid into tubes and centrifugalise thoroughly.

  8. Better let them decant the bottle, and then he would have the drug to fall back upon!

  9. No sooner did the fine promissory note of the discharge of its tompion reach his ear, than he cried out, with the authority of a field-officer at least: "Decant it.

  10. Suffer them to stand together one hour, then decant the liquor.

  11. Decant your Spirit of Wine, and keep it in a bottle well corked.

  12. Put some fresh Vinegar into the matrass; digest as before; and decant the liquor again when it is sufficiently coloured.

  13. Then take off your receiver: from the black oil at bottom decant the acid liquor with the red Oil floating on it, and pour them both into a glass funnel, lined with brown filtering paper, and placed over a bottle.

  14. They decant the liquor from this precipitate, and, when it is duly evaporated, find it shoot into beautiful crystals of Alum.

  15. Decant the liquor from these crystals; evaporate it to a pellicle, and set it again to crystallize.

  16. Decant once more this Oil from the crystals, and pour on fresh Oil to dissolve them: continue the same method, and you will find that about sixteen parts of Essential Oil are required to keep one part of Sulphur dissolved when cold.

  17. When you perceive that the Alkali attracts no new moisture, and that no more of it melts, decant your Spirit of Wine from the liquor beneath it, and add to your Spirit fresh Salt thoroughly dried as before.

  18. Decant the liquor from the crystals; evaporate it again to a pellicle, and set it by to crystallize.

  19. Decant the clear liquor, and on the precipitate pour fresh aqua fortis, or Spirit of Salt, and warm the whole on a sand-bath with a gentle heat for some time.

  20. Allow to settle for a few moments, and decant through a filter.

  21. Allow to settle and decant on to a filter.

  22. Decant off the solution, wash once, strip off the lead, wash and weigh the remaining zinc.

  23. When the zinc is nearly all dissolved, decant off the clear liquid, and dissolve the residue in 2 c.

  24. Decant off the liquid through a filter, and digest the precipitate with ammonic carbonate; filter, and re-precipitate with hydrochloric acid and sulphuretted hydrogen.

  25. Allow to stand for some time, decant on to a filter, dry, burn, and cupel the ashes with 1 gram of sheet lead.

  26. If no yellowish precipitate is formed, decant off the rest of the liquid, and wash the precipitated metal with hot water two or three times by decantation.

  27. Add a rod of zinc to the freely-acid hot solution, and in a few minutes decant through a filter and wash with water, after having removed the zinc.

  28. In five or ten minutes decant off a few c.

  29. Decant on to a Swedish filter paper, dry and calcine.

  30. Decant through a small filter, and wash with hot water, acidulated at first with a little nitric acid if bismuth is suspected to be present.

  31. Allow the precipitate to settle, decant on to a filter, and wash with hot water.

  32. Allow to settle, and decant off the clear liquid.

  33. Cologne, gradually, until the cloudiness at first occasioned ceases to be removed by agitation; the next day decant the clear portion.

  34. Decant the clear liquid from the sediment after a week or ten days' rest.

  35. Decant the clear portion into a wide-mouthed bottle, keep well stoppered, and in the dark.

  36. Shake the ether in a bottle with half its bulk of the water, and, after separation, decant the ether.

  37. After settling for twenty-four hours, decant the clear portion into small well-stoppered bottles.

  38. It may be now passed through a cloth; but a better way to prevent loss is to let it repose for a few days, and then decant the clear portion.

  39. After 2 hours' repose, decant it from the dregs, and bottle for use.

  40. Another plan is, after long agitation and subsequent repose, to decant the clearer portion from the grosser sediment, and to employ separate filters for the two.

  41. Then decant them into a proper sized tub, let them cool to 150 deg.

  42. Dr Nimmo recommends oil of turpentine to be purified by agitation with 1/8th part of rectified spirit, after repose to decant the spirit, and to repeat the process 3 or 4 times.

  43. Remove, by skimming, any oily matter which floats on the surface, and carefully decant the greater part of the fluid from the precipitate.

  44. Digest manna in boiling rectified spirit, and filter or decant the solution whilst hot; the mannite crystallises as the liquid cools in tufts of slender, colourless needles.

  45. Decant and filter the liquor, and evaporate it till it has the density of 1.

  46. Mix the strained liquors, let them settle, decant the fluid from the deposit, evaporate to the bulk of 2-1/2 pints.

  47. Decant the clear liquid, wash the precipitate thoroughly, and dry it with a gentle heat.

  48. When effervescence has ceased, apply for ten minutes a heat approaching that of ebullition, and decant the solution from any insoluble matter.

  49. In three months decant the clear from both bottles, and mix them in equal quantities; the clear portion must then be separated from the coagulum by subsidence or filtration.

  50. When the solution is complete, and settled, decant it into bottles, and close them with ground stoppers.

  51. Then decant the clear liquor, and thicken every quart of it with half a pound of gum.

  52. We decant it then into a copper of equal capacity, and place it over the fire, adding the fish-glue dissolved in a great deal of water, and passed through a searce.

  53. Decant the supernatant water with a syphon, the end of which may touch the bottom of the vessel, because the layer of carmine is very firm.

  54. The cuvettes receive the melted glass after it is refined, and decant it out on the table to be rolled into a plate.

  55. Decant the clear and add to the first lot.

  56. Decant and preserve the clear liquor, being careful not to stir up the sediment.

  57. Let these ingredients steep for ten days, shaking the bottle every day; let it remain quiet two days, and then decant the clear liquor.

  58. When you decant it, be careful not to disturb the settlings at the bottom of the pan.

  59. I have provided some oxygen gas for this purpose; it is in that bottle, but we must first decant the gas into the glass receiver which stands on the shelf in the bath, and is full of water.

  60. Who would decant the wine of his poetry from its quaint and antique-looking lagena?

  61. We decant the choicest wines of Europe into our cellars; we ought to be always decanting the precious treasures of her libraries and galleries into our own, as we have opportunity and means.

  62. Pour on the same quantity of cold water; and, after settling, decant it off in the same manner.

  63. Add now to the mixture three or four times its quantity of hot water; after a little agitation, allow the magnesia to settle to the bottom, and decant off as much of the water as possible.

  64. Continue the boiling for about two minutes, allow the precipitate to settle, and decant the liquid at the end of half an hour (Note 4).

  65. Boil for two minutes; allow the precipitated calcium oxalate to settle for a half-hour, and decant through a filter.

  66. When the fused mass has completely disintegrated and nothing further will dissolve, decant the solution from the residue of barium carbonate (Note 1).

  67. Decant the clear liquid through a filter, and transfer the precipitate to the filter, using as wash-water a mixture of one volume of concentrated ammonia and three volumes of water.

  68. Decant the supernatant liquid through a filter and use the clear filtrate; 5 cc.

  69. Decant the Water and repeat the washing several times; finally dry the Gold and mix it with a little Gum Water for use.

  70. After two hours' repose decant from the dregs and bottle for use.

  71. Decant the solution and pour it in a solution of Sulphocyanide of Ammonia or Potassium, which may be bought at a good drug store or of a dealer in chemicals.

  72. Fowey Well has no outlet visible, it is supposed to decant by a subterranean stream into the river.

  73. Let cool, decant the liquid in another glass bottle, and cork well.

  74. Afterward, when cold, decant in a glass bottle, to be kept well corked.

  75. Put the whole into a quart bottle, shake it frequently, and decant it into small bottles for use.

  76. Decant the liquor into stone bottles well corked, and it will be fit for use directly.

  77. Decant the clear liquor, and cork it up close.

  78. Shake the bottle every day, then let it settle for two days, and decant off the clear liquor.

  79. Pour hot water on the remaining powder, stir it, decant it in its turbid state, and separate the Magnesia from the water as before.

  80. After most of the curd has settled, decant as much as possible of the fat.


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