Sentence:  Treatment of the <WSD>conjugates</WSD> with ethyl acetate , and the conjugates ( which had been passed through Dowex-2-chloride ) with mouse liver powder , sweet clover crown gall tissue powder , or healthy sweet clover proteins did not satisfactorily remove nonspecifically staining substances in the conjugates . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A