Filtrate Definition

fĭltrāt
filtrated, filtrates, filtrating
verb
filtrated, filtrates, filtrating
To put or go through a filter.
American Heritage

To filter.

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Synonyms:
noun
filtrates
A filtered liquid.
Webster's New World

Origin of Filtrate

  • New Latin filtrāre filtrāt- to filter from Medieval Latin filtrum filter filter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare Late Latin filtrare.

    From Wiktionary

Filtrate Sentence Examples

  • The washing is continued until the filtrate is free from salts or acids.

  • Ammonium carbonate is added to the filtrate; this precipitates calcium, strontium and barium.

  • The iron and aluminium precipitates are filtered off, and the filtrate boiled, when a basic beryllium hydroxide containing a little ferric oxide is precipitated.

  • If this be dissolved in water and the solution concentrated, some silicic acid separates and the filtrate deposits triclinic prisms of tungstosilicic acid.

  • These are washed with ammonium chloride until the filtrate is colourless, ignited, fused with caustic potash and nitre, the melt dissolved in water and nitric acid added to the solution until the colour of potassium ruthenate disappears.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIL

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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