frac·tion·ate

(frăk′shə-nāt′)

v. frac·tion·at·ed, frac·tion·at·ing, frac·tion·ates

v.tr.

1. To divide or separate into parts; break up: "In the post-Watergate era, power has been fractionated on Capitol Hill" (Evan Thomas).

2. To separate (a chemical mixture) into components, as by distillation or crystallization.

v.intr.

1. To divide or separate into parts: "Languages have an extraordinary capacity to fractionate into mutually unintelligible dialects" (Robin Dunbar).

2. To undergo chemical separation, as by distillation or crystallization.

frac′tion·a′tion n.

frac′tion·a′tor n.

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frac·tion·a·tion

(frăk′shə-nā′shən)

The separation of a chemical compound into components, as by distillation or crystallization.

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Noun	1.	fractionation - a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components fractional process destructive distillation - heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products fractional distillation - fractionation of a liquid by distillation industrial process - a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
	2.	fractionation - separation into portions division - the act or process of dividing

Translations

frazionamento

frac·tion·a·tion

n. fraccionamiento, 1. administración de un curso de terapia durante un período extendido de tiempo para disminuir daño radioactivo 2. separación de una mezcla y sus componentes.

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In addition, it is difficult to obtain trustworthy interpretations of isotopic data because it requires understanding the isotopic fractionation that occurs between the diet and the consumer, as small organic changes affect trophic level estimations and the contributions of different producer sources (McCutchan et al., 2003).

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Siemens Energy said it has been awarded a $40 million project in the UAE to engineer and supply an integrated power solution for a natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation plant to be set up by Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (Gasco).

Gasco contract awarded

Written for novices and experts alike, the chapters encompass a number of species ranging from bacteria to humans, and cover a range of topics including organism handling, tissue and organ dissection, cellular and subcellular fractionation, peptide extraction, fractionation and purification, structural characterization, molecular closing, and sequence analysis.

Peptidomics; methods and protocols

"Whereas in both wet and dry fractionation processes, the result is ethanol, distillers dried grains with soluble, as well as germ and fiber.

Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products