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Fractionated vs Fractionate - What's the difference?

fractionated | fractionate |

As verbs the difference between fractionated and fractionate

is that fractionated is past tense of fractionate while fractionate is 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.

fractionated

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Verb

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  • (fractionate)

  • fractionate

    English

    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.
  • Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.
  • (cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.
  • fractionate

    English

    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.
  • Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.
  • (cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.