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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