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— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

…

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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sedimentation

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The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.

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Common Phrases

rate sedimentation. sedimentationrates sedimentationcoefficient sedimentationvelocity sedimentationequilibrium sedimentationsedimentation erythrocyte
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Synonyms

depositalluviation

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Related Words

siltsiltationsedimenterosionprecipitationsedimentary

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