salt out (English, verb)
expansion: salt out (third-person singular simple present salts out, present participle salting out, simple past and past participle salted out)
Senses:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
tags: transitive
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To precipitate out of a solution.
raw_tags: of a solute
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.
Forms:
form: salts out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salting out
tags: participle
present
form: salted out
tags: participle
past
form: salted out
tags: past