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mother liquor
noun
- the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.
Word History and Origins
Origin of mother liquor1
Example Sentences
The crystals were mounted and sealed in capillaries in the mother liquor or covered in Paratone, measured at room temperature and at 100 K and crystals of various sizes were used.
This is discussed above with reference to the instability of the crystals outside the mother liquor.
T2-γ is stabilized by solvent exchange with pentane, but the DMAc/acetone solvate of T2-γ taken directly from the mother liquor of the crystallization transforms to a solvate of T2-α under light grinding or when left to stand at room temperature.
It may be compared with crystals, which in their geometrically accurate forms are crystallized clearly and definitely out of a liquid, the mother liquor; or with the heavenly bodies which agglomerate out of surging primal nebulæ.
The growth of crystals in their mother liquor is merely mechanical precipitation on their surface, an external addition of layers of the same material; but not growth by the incorporation of such matter, that is, through the absorption of nourishment.
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