Saturate vs Saturant - What's the difference?
saturate | saturant |
To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
* 1815 , in the Annals of Philosophy , volume 6, page 332:
* Macaulay
To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
Impregnating to the full; saturating.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
A substance which is used to saturate another.
(medicine) An antacid, such as magnesia, used to reduce stomach acidity.
As a verb saturate
is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).As an adjective saturant is
impregnating to the full; saturating.As a noun saturant is
a substance which is used to saturate another.saturate
English
Verb
(saturat)- Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas,
- Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated .
- One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.
