Sentence examples for fractionation from inspiring English sources
"fractionation" is a correct and usable word in written English
It describes the process of separating a material or mixture into smaller components or fractions. For example, "Gasoline fractionation is the process of creating different grades of fuel using distillation and other refining methods."
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A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient.
- Methane is separated from other hydrocarbons in a gas fractionation plant.
This technique is called field-flow fractionation.
Isotopic fractionation, enrichment of one isotope relative to another in a chemical or physical process.
The augites in layered ultramafic intrusions show compositional trends of increasing iron and decreasing magnesium contents with fractionation.
Sometimes a set of samples will form from a single reservoir but with each one having experienced a different degree of mass fractionation.
Nevertheless, by the end of the war some complicated cipher systems were used for high-level communications, the most famous of which was the German ADFGVX fractionation cipher, described in the section Cryptography: Product ciphers.
Field-flow fractionation is best suited to particle- or colloid-size substances.
What is commonly called global or generalized memory defect may, therefore, become increasingly subject to fractionation.
In most cases this bias, or fractionation, can be corrected if the precise ratio of two of the stable isotopes present is known.
For oxygen subjected to mass fractionation the percentage change of the ratio 18O/16O should be twice that in the ratio 17O/16O.
This leads to isotopic fractionation, the extent of which can be expressed by a fractionation factor, alpha, also known as a separation factor, or enrichment factor.
He has also served as an adviser for the Forest BioProducts Research Project at the University of Maine and as chairman of the finance committee for Maine's Fractionation Development Center, which researches transforming wood into energy and materials produced from crude oil.
