Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fractionate? Here's what it means.
Verb
(chemistry) To separate (a mixture) into its individual constituents by exploiting differences in some chemical or physical property, such as boiling point, particle size, solubility etc.
Scientists at Cornell University wanted to fractionate and characterize grape polyphenolic extracts prepared from pomace to investigate their antimicrobial properties.
Synthetics, chemicals, and solvents never are employed to fractionate or standardize the products.
Among those physical structures in organisms that fractionate light into its component colours are ridges, striations, facets, successive layers, and multiple fine, randomly dispersed light-scattering bodies.
The cells will literally fractionate open, and they spill all their toxic chemicals into their environment and that can be very damaging indeed.
In 1854, Benjamin Silliman, a science professor at Yale University in New Haven, was the first to fractionate petroleum by distillation.
In recent years, new technologies have made it possible to fractionate milk, as milk producers themselves say, into a number of elements and milk proteins.
