Concentrate vs Serum - What's the difference?
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As a verb concentrate is . As a noun serum is serum.
concentrate English
Verb
( concentrat)
(ambitransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- to concentrate rays of light into a focus
- to concentrate the attention
- Let me concentrate !
To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense (qualifier, as opposed to 'dilute').
- to concentrate acid by evaporation
- to concentrate by washing
To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- Population tends to concentrate in cities.
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To focus one's thought or attention (on).
Derived terms
* concentrated
Noun
( en noun)
A substance that is in a condensed form.
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serum Noun
(en-noun)
The clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. Also called blood serum.
Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum.
A watery fluid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc; whey.
(skincare) An intensive moisturising product to be applied after cleansing but before a general moisturiser.
Derived terms
* antiserum
* blood serum
* immune serum
* serous
* serum sickness
* truth serum
Related terms
* sero-
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