Difference between concentration and desiccation
Definitions
noun
- increase in density
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- bringing together military forces
- great and constant diligence and attention
- the spatial property of being crowded together
Examples
According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters.
Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
This book requires a great deal of concentration.
Definitions
noun
- dryness resulting from the removal of water
- the process of extracting moisture
Examples
The major modalities in electrosurgery are electrodesiccation, fulguration, electrocoagulation, and electrosection.
Di- and oligosaccharides are replaced by monosaccharides, while dehydrins and other desiccation-related proteins disappear.
For when the spirit, or moisture turned to spirit, has escaped from some porous body (as wood, bone, parchment, and the like), then the grosser parts are with stronger effort drawn and collected together; whence ensues induration or desiccation, which I take to be owing not so much to the motion of connection to prevent a vacuum as to this motion of friendship and union.
