NOUN
- the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees
How To Use decantation In A Sentence
- This spiritual purification may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, which is effected by the chemists, and is called defecation, rectification, castigation, acution, decantation, and sublimation; and wisdom purified may be compared with alcohol, which is a highly rectified spirit. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
- It has become much more supple and delicious and can be drunk after several hours of decantation with great pleasure. The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
- They are then pressed with a pneumatic press, and the decantation is done at a low temperature. The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
- Filtration, decantation, distillation, evaporation and crystallization are physical separating Methods: Without formation of new substances.
- A red precipitate of chromous acetate is formed, which is washed by decantation in water containing carbonic acid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
- The remaining nitrile, after decantation or filtration, is still colored but is substantially free of amide.
- This social decantation is now complete as in front of Chavez the large majority of people who are self reliant and who think that individual choices and responsibilities hold still some meaning in Venezuela are in absolute opposition to Chavez. 2006, the year in review
- -- The purification of conjugial love may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, as effected by the chemists, and called decantation, 145. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love