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separate as a fine suspension of solid particles

hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"

bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"

fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

separate as a fine suspension of solid particles

hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"

bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"

fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.

Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.

Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.

Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease.

An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.

To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.

To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.

To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.

To dash or fall headlong.

To hasten without preparation.

To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.

To throw headlong; urge on violently; hurry on rashly; to cause to change from vapor to liquid or solid and fall, as rain or snow; to cause to separate in solid form from a solution.

To separate in solid form from a solution.

A solid substance seperated from a solution by chemical action.

Overhasty; rash; falling, flowing, or rushing headlong; descending steeply.

Precipitately.

1. To throw anything down from its solution or suspension in a liquid. 2. To separate out from a solution or suspension. 3. A deposit of a solid separated out from a solution or suspension; a flocculence or clumping resulting from the mixture of a specific antigen and its antibody. 4. Hasty, headlong, precipitant.

Powder-like sediment of a liquid, due to chemical action of a precipitant.

To throw head-foremost: to urge with eagerness: to hurry rashly: to hasten: (chem.) to throw to the bottom, as a substance in solution or suspension.

Falling, flowing, or rushing headlong: lacking deliberation: overhasty: (med.) ending soon in death.

A substance precipitated.

A substance thrown to the bottom of a solution.

Precipitation.

Steep; over-hasty.

Precipitation.

To throw down, as from a height; urge onward rashly; hasten.

To cause to fall, as from a liquid, by condensation.

To fall headlong; settle down.

Rushing down headlong; hasty; premature.

A substance separated from a solution, and deposited.

Falling, flowing, or rushing with steep descent; headlong; overhasty; adopted without due deliberation; violent and speedily terminating.

A substance precipitated. Red precipitate, the red oxide or peroxide of mercury.

To throw headlong; to urge with eagerness or undue haste; to hurry blindly or rashly; to throw to the bottom of a vessel, as a substance in solution.

To fall headlong; to fall to the bottom of a vessel, as a sediment.

Headlong; flowing or falling with a steep descent; over-hasty; incautious; without due deliberation.

A substance thrown down from its state of solution in a liquid to the bottom of a vessel, generally in a pulverised form.

To hurry or hasten on blindly or rashly; to urge or press on prematurely; to cause to separate or fall to the bottom, as a substance held in solution by a liquid.

To cause a substance in solution to settle down in solid particles.

A deposit made or substance thrown down by precipitation.

See festination.

In chemistry, the act or process of forming a precipitate.

n. That which is precipitated or thrown down in a liquid compound ; sediment.