Sedimentation vs. Decantation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sedimentation and Decantation
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Sedimentation
Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come to rest against a barrier. This is due to their motion through the fluid in response to the forces acting on them: these forces can be due to gravity, centrifugal acceleration, or electromagnetism.
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.
Sedimentation
The process of settling or being deposited as a sediment
The natural sedimentation of the estuary
Sedimentation occurs when the droplets sink to the bottom
Decantation
To pour off (wine, for example) without disturbing the sediment.
Sedimentation
The act or process of depositing sediment.
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Decantation
To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.
Sedimentation
The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.
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.
Sedimentation
The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Decantation
The act of decanting the supernatant liquid from a solid sediment
Sedimentation
The phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
Decantation
The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.
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