fractionate

IPA: frˈækʃʌnʌt

(chemistry) To separate (a mixture) into its individual constituents by exploiting differences in some chemical or physical property, such as boiling point, particle size, solubility etc.
(radiotherapy) To divide a total dose of radiation into fractions.
(cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.
To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.

Examples of "fractionate" in Sentences

Re #54, the upper atmosphere tends to fractionate according to molecular mass.
In the long term, Iraq will fractionate, much as the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia did.
Evaporation will fractionate the isotopes and result in the residual water becoming enriched in oxygen 18.
His group was actively working to fractionate yeast and identify its active factor at the time of his death in
Hence the different isotopes are said to fractionate between two reservoirs reservoirs here being liquid and vapour.
Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), one of the first American professors of science to fractionate petroleum by distillation (1854).
But once you fractionate happiness the way I do, not just positive emotion -- that's not nearly enough -- there's flow in life, and there's meaning in life.
I don't think they imagine me sitting with my cup of coffee on my bench as I drip fractionate gradients... counting off 10 drops into each well on a 96-well plate.
You could sort of say that this is a very energized version of the conservative side of the Republican Party, or you can see it that this could be something that could just fractionate the Republican Party, tear it into fiscal Republicans and social Republicans, and whatever there is left of old mainline Republicans.