Serum (blood)
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Serum is the fluid and solvent component of blood which does not play a role in clotting. It may be defined as blood plasma without the clotting factors, or as blood with all cells and clotting factor
Preparation of serum cups for a lipids panel designed to test cholesterol levels in a patient's blood
Precipitation (chemistry)
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In an aqueous solution, precipitation is the "sedimentation of a solid material from a liquid solution". The solid formed is called the precipitate. In case of an inorganic chemical reaction leading t
Serum (blood)
…serum, a blood sample is allowed to clot (coagulation). The sample is then centrifuged to remove the clot and blood cells, and the resulting liquid supernatant is serum. The serum of convalescent patients successfully recovering (or already recovered) from an infectious disease can be used as a biopharmaceutical…
Potassium hexachloroplatinate, the result of gravimetric analysis for potassium
Illustration of the Walden reductor. Copper from a wire is displaced by silver from a silver nitrate solution it is dipped into, and metallic silver crystals precipitate onto the copper wire.