Supernatant vs. Infranatant — What's the Difference?

Denoting the liquid lying above a solid residue after crystallization, precipitation, centrifugation, or other process

(of a liquid) Lying below a sediment or precipitate

A volume of supernatant liquid

The infranatant material

Floating on the surface.

The clear fluid above a sediment or precipitate.

Lying or floating above a denser fluid, or above a solid sediment or precipitate (which has been separated by crystallisation, centrifugation etc.).

The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; supernate

Material that floats on the surface of a liquid

Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water.

The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet.

A liquid lying above a sediment (floating on the surface)

Of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate;