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digestate

digestate noun: material that has been digested, usually using acid or biomethanation.

Noun

digestate (plural digestates)

  1. Material that has been digested, usually using acid or biomethanation.
    • The sample was digested with sulphuric acid, neutralized, distilled, and Nesslerized. At the same time, tests were run [...] to obtain concordant results by direct Nesslerization of the ammonia formed by the distillation of the digestate.1917 December 1, F.M. Veatch, H.P. Evans, L.E. Jackson, “Sewage Disposal in Kansas”, in Bulletin of the University of Kansas, volume 18, page 68
    • Digestates were quantitatively transferred and diluted to a final volume of 50 ml with 1% HOT. Diluted digestates of bluegill samples were stored in preleached (Karin et al. 1975) conventional polyethylene bottles (Moody and Lindstrom 1977) prior to analysis.1984, James Wiener, Comparative Analyses of Fish Populations in Naturally Acidic and Circumneutral Lakes in Northern Wisconsin, Washington: Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, page 44

Forms of digestate

pluraldigestates

Origin of digestate

From digest + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Questions about digestate

What does digestate mean?
Digestate means material that has been digested, usually using acid or biomethanation.
What part of speech is digestate?
Digestate is a noun.
What is the plural of digestate?
The plural of digestate is digestates.

Words near digestate in the dictionary

  1. digestabilities
  2. digestability
  3. digestable
  4. digestant
  5. digestants
  6. digestate
  7. digestates
  8. digested
  9. digestedly
  10. digestedness
  11. digester

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