Fractionation Definition

frăk′shə-nā ′ shən
noun
The separation of a chemical compound into components, as by distillation.
American Heritage Medicine
The process of dividing or separating into parts; breaking up.
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The division of a total therapeutic dose of radiation into small doses to be administered over a period of days or weeks.
American Heritage Medicine

(chemistry) 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.
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(cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.

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Synonyms:
  • fractional process

Other Word Forms of Fractionation

Noun

Singular:
fractionation
Plural:
fractionations

Fractionation Sentence Examples

  • Silicon iodoform, SiHI 3, is formed by the action of hydriodic acid on silicon, the product, which contains silicon tetraiodide, being separated by fractionation.

  • Despite these strong isotope shifts, we found a largely uniform isotope fractionation.

  • We have examined the importance of isotope selective photodissociation / fractionation to gas mass estimation in molecular clouds.

  • Mansfield to facilitate the fractionation of paraffin and coaltar distillates, consisted in having a pipe leading from the inclined delivery tube of the still to the still again, so that any vapour which condensed in the delivery tube was returned to the still.

  • By such a study in the ultra-violet region of a fraction prepared from crude yttria he detected a new element victorium, and subsequently by elaborate fractionation obtained the element itself.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

NONION

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