ADJECTIVE
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of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate
the supernatant fat was skimmed off
NOUN
- the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate
How To Use supernatant In A Sentence
- The suspensions were spun at 1000 g for 30 minutes and the supernatants were filtered and lyophilized.
- All extracts were centrifuged at 10000 rpm for 5 min, and the supernatants were then evaporated under vacuum to dryness and resuspended in appropriate solvents to a final concentration of 1 mg/ml.
- The supernatant was removed and stored and the pellets extracted with 100% acetone until they were colourless.
- The culture supernatant could stimulate the neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells.
- Supernatant fractions were removed and TCA precipitated as described above, and pellet fractions were resuspended in solubilization buffer. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- The supernatant was collected and the sediment suspended in a double volume of water, acidified and centrifuged.
- Ten minutes after adding malate, we again pipetted the supernatant from the same dish into other test tubes.
- The supernatant and the precipitate fractions were separated.
- The supernatants were used for assays of enzyme activity.
- Methods Observing the levels of parasitemia in mice, development of sexual stage parasites in mosquitoes and induced effect of PRBC extract on NO 2 -from supernatants of spleen cells.