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Diluent   Listen
adjective
Diluent  adj.  Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.



noun
Diluent  n.  
1.
That which dilutes.
2.
(Med.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink. "There is no real diluent but water."






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"Diluent" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary of life. It is desirable to lessen the injurious effects of tea as much as possible by mixing it with milk, which will render it softer and more nutritious. With the addition of sugar it may be made to form a wholesome breakfast for those who are strong and live freely, operating as a diluent for cleansing the bladder and kidnies, and the alimentary passages. Persons of weak nerves ought however to abstain from tea, as they would from drains and cordials, as it causes the same kind of irritation on the delicate fibres of the stomach, which ends in lowness, trembling, and ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... serum, serosity^; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua [Sp.], aqua, pani^. dilution, maceration, lotion; washing &c v.; immersion^, humectation^, infiltration, spargefaction^, affusion^, irrigation, douche, balneation^, bath. deluge &c (water in motion) 348; high water, flood tide. V. be watery &c adj.; reek. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... Only the children drink it as it is: the wives boil it, and so drink soft water and dead reptiles in their tea. The men instinctively avoid it and drink nothing but beer. Thus, for want of a pure diluent with lime in solution, an acid is created in the blood which produces gout in the rich, and rheumatism in the poor, thanks to their meager food ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

... and barley water, or milk and oat gruel, in the proportion of seven ounces of milk to three ounces of the diluent. ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague

... will learn the value of nitrogen as a diluent of the oxygen. Pure oxygen entering the lungs would be just as destructive as it ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education



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