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What does sedimentation mean?

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  1. 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.
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A large amount of the progeny phages were separated from the bacterial media by multiple steps of sedimentation and resuspension.
This sediment was locally lithified to form thin hard grounds, presumably at times of non-sedimentation or significantly reduced sedimentation.
The borates on the claims in the canyon originated through sedimentation on an ancient lake bed.
The life of the dam is estimated to be not more than 30 years because of heavy sedimentation.
Threats to the three darter species are mounting due to increased sedimentation of the watershed caused by urbanization.
Only the sedimentation equilibrium experiments with the highest loading concentrations were observed with the refractometric Rayleigh optics.

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