supernatant
Meanings
Adjective
- Lying or floating above a denser fluid, or above a solid sediment or precipitate (which has been separated by crystallisation, centrifugation etc.).
Noun
- The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; supernate
- Material that floats on the surface of a liquid
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