Sentences with phrase «serving as both a solvent»
The broth from the waste also stabilises heavy metals, serving as both a solvent and a medium where the toxins mix and become locked into hydroxides, carbonates and sulphides that precipitate out.
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Membranes serve a dual role as a selectively permeable barrier, and as a two - dimensional solvent hosting biochemical activity (e.g. signaling, transport, growth and division).
She works with the ancient technique of encaustic wax, a combination of beeswax, resin and pigments in which heat serves as the active solvent.