Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing or used in separation; effecting separation; separative: as, separatory ducts.
- noun A chemical vessel for separating liquids of different specific gravity; a separator. See
separator , 2 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Separative.
- noun (Chem.) An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.
- noun (Surg.), obsolete A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing something used to
separate . - noun obsolete, chemistry An
apparatus used in separating, such as a separatingfunnel . - noun obsolete, surgery A
surgical instrument for separating thepericranium from thecranium .
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Examples
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They have made a discovery that is useful as a separatory process.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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Extract with five times its volume of ether by agitation in a separatory funnel.
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Disinfect the filter candle and separatory funnel by boiling.
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Hence, when these fats contain it in solution, they retain it in the process of extraction while, lacking this separatory process, ether fails to loosen it from the vegetable binding.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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If it is necessary to introduce a large bulk of fluid into the animal, the cultivation should be transferred with aseptic precautions, to a sterile separatory funnel, preferably of the shape shown in figure 173, and graduated if necessary.
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Sterile filter candle (Fig. 34), the open end fitted with a rubber stopper (Fig. 34, a) perforated to receive the delivery tube of the separatory funnel, and its neck passed through a large rubber washer
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Attach the nozzle of the separatory funnel to the filter candle by means of the perforated rubber stopper (Fig. 37).
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Connect the straight portion of a ~Y~-shaped piece of tubing to the upper end of the sterilised tube and couple one branch of the ~Y~ to a separatory funnel containing the fluid inoculum, or insufflator containing the powdered inoculum, and the other to a hand bellows.
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Fill the liquefied butter into the sterile separatory funnel.
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Cool and filter through a moistened double paper into a separatory funnel and wash with small portions of 0. 5-percent sulphuric acid.
All About Coffee 1909
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