The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precipitate \Pre*cip"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Precipitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Precipitating.]
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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.
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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.
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(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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of precipitate English)
WordNet
adj. bringing on suddenly or abruptly; "the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of water-borne commerce" [syn: precipitating(a)]
Usage examples of "precipitating".
After precipitating as ammonic-magnesic phosphate with sodium phosphate, and well washing with ammonia, it is dissolved in dilute hydrochloric acid, neutralised with ammonia, and sodic acetate and acetic acid are added in the usual quantity.
In the determination of chlorides in sea-water, Dittmar used a combined method: precipitating the bulk of the silver as chloride, and after filtering, determining the small excess of silver by sulphocyanate.
As an antidote, the best when the poison is in solution is the hydrated sesquioxide of iron, formed by precipitating tinctura ferri perchloridi with excess of ammonia, or carbonate of soda.
The zirconia will be in solution, and is recovered by precipitating with potassium sulphate, or by evaporating the solution and igniting.
It should be prepared when wanted by precipitating a solution of baric chloride with ammonic carbonate and washing.
When the nature of the impurities will allow it, this process may be shortened to first filtering off the gangue, then precipitating with sulphuretted hydrogen and washing the precipitate on the filter first with water and then with ammonium sulphide.
This can be counteracted by precipitating in both solutions a mixture of ferric and aluminic hydrates, which settles readily and leaves the supernatant liquor clear.
Filter and evaporate the filtrate to a small bulk, and determine the nickel by electrolysing the solution rendered ammoniacal, or by precipitating as sulphide and weighing as sulphate.
Re-dissolve in hydrochloric acid, and separate the iron by precipitating with ammonia and filtering.
Jews opposed their fanaticism to the fanaticism of the Christians, barricaded their houses, and precipitating themselves, their families, and their wealth, into the rivers or the flames, disappointed the malice, or at least the avarice, of their implacable foes.
The contest between Count Romanzov and the party opposed to that Minister seems on the point of precipitating a war between Russia and France.