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separation
1. Detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
2. Unconnected; distinct; unique: "There were two separate questions."
3. Being or standing apart; distant or dispersed: "She owned two separate houses."
separation (s) (noun), separations (pl)
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(Greek: aphairesis, withdrawal, separation, removal and aphairein, "to take away")
(Latin: to separate, to sift, to distinguish, to understand, to decide, to determine; separated, separation, to set apart; the glandular extraction or the movement out of a natural substance)
(Latin: separation, apart, asunder; removal, away, from; negation, deprivation, undoing, reversal, utterly, completely; in different directions)
(Making the heart grow fonder—for someone else.)
(Greek: from, away from, asunder, separate, separation from, derived from)
(Latin: burere, "to burn up"; from urere, with an inserted or faulty separation of b in amburere, "to burn around"; which stands for amb-urere, "to burn around", but it was misdivided into am-burere and because of this misdivision, the new verb burere was formed with the past participle bustum; so, it really came from urere, "to burn, to singe")
(Latin: to separate; a separation)
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electrolytic separation
A process in which a charged electrode collects ions from a solution.
electromagnetic separation
The separation of ions of varying mass by a combination of electric and magnetic fields.

In the most common application, an isotopic mixture of ions is produced by either electron bombardment of a gas or thermionic emission.

The ionized particles are accelerated and collimated (adjusted the line of sight) into a beam by a system of electrodes, and the beam is projected into a magnetic field where the paths of the ions depend on their mass-to-charge ratio.

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electrostatic separation, high-tension separation
1. A process in which an electrostatic separator sorts out or reorders a mixture of finely pulverized materials.
2. A separation of finely pulverized materials by placing them in electrostatic separators.
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