Fractionates vs Fractionated - What's the difference?
fractionates | fractionated |
(fractionate)
(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.
(cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.
As verbs the difference between fractionates and fractionated
is that fractionates is third-person singular of fractionate while fractionated is past tense of fractionate.fractionates
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(head)fractionate
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- Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.