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Precipitated

Precipitate \Pre*cip"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Precipitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Precipitating.]

  1. To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.

    She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.
    --W. Irving.

  2. To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.

    Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
    --Glover.

    If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.
    --Bacon.

  3. (Chem.) To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.

    The light vapor of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
    --W. Irving.

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precipitated
  1. 1 hasten; hurried. 2 deposit from a solution, vapour or state of suspension into gas. v

  2. (en-past of: precipitate)

Usage examples of "precipitated".

The bismuth is precipitated by the addition of ammonic carbonate, and the solution, after filtering and acidifying with nitric acid, is re-electrolysed.

Bunsen cells, it will be precipitated in an arborescent brittle form, ill adapted for weighing.

If nickel is present, the few milligrams of copper remaining in the electrolysed solution should be separated with sulphuretted hydrogen, the precipitated sulphide dissolved in nitric acid, and determined colorimetrically.

Again, the metals precipitated in the acid solution form sulphides which may be divided into groups, the one consisting of those which are soluble, and the other of those which are not soluble, in alkalies.

The filtered solution is acidified with hydrochloric acid, warmed, and precipitated with sodium sulphite.

Dilute to 2 litres with water, and pass a current of sulphuretted hydrogen till the iron is reduced, the copper and silver precipitated, and the liquor smells of the gas.

The point at which the whole of the silver is precipitated being recognised by the standard solution ceasing to give a precipitate.

If much lead is present, a portion may be precipitated as sulphate, but can be removed by washing with ammonic acetate.

If a rod of zinc is placed in this solution, metallic lead is precipitated on it as a spongy mass, the lead chloride being decomposed as fast as it is formed.

Peel off the precipitated lead with the help of a glass rod, and then clean the zinc.

The lead is not completely precipitated, but the amount remaining in solution is only 2 or 3 milligrams, which is just sufficient to give a dark coloration with sulphuretted hydrogen.

The precipitated sulphides, after digesting with soda and washing, are dissolved in nitric acid and the solution boiled with ammonium carbonate.

The solution in which the antimony is precipitated need not be quite free from other metals.

A white precipitate of sulphur will be formed, this will not interfere with the subsequent titration provided it is precipitated in the cold.

The disadvantages are the necessity for boiling off the excess of the gas, and of filtering off the precipitated sulphur, although this last is not necessary if precipitated cold.