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Decantation vs. Filtration — What's the Difference?

Decantation vs. Filtration — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Decantation and Filtration

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Decantation

Decantation is a process for the separation of mixtures of immiscible liquids or of a liquid and a solid mixture such as a suspension. The layer closer to the top of the container—the less dense of the two liquids, or the liquid from which the precipitate or sediment has settled out—is poured off, leaving the other component or the more dense liquid of the mixture behind.

Filtration

Filtration is a physical or chemical separation process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture using a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass. Solid particles that cannot pass through the filter medium are described as oversize and the fluid that passes through is called the filtrate.

Decantation

To pour off (wine, for example) without disturbing the sediment.

Filtration

The action or process of filtering something
Small particles are difficult to remove without filtration

Decantation

To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.
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Filtration

The act or process of filtering.

Decantation

To aerate (a wine) by pouring it into a spacious vessel and leaving it exposed to the air for a period of time
Decanted the wine for twenty minutes before serving.

Filtration

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Decantation

The act of decanting the supernatant liquid from a solid sediment

Filtration

A totally ordered collection of subsets.

Decantation

The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

Filtration

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Filtration

The process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium

Filtration

The act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter

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