depositable

comparative more depositable · superlative most depositable

1. formalrareCapable of being deposited; able to be placed, laid down, or accumulated in a particular place, typically as a layer, residue, or item.

   On a paper machine, only a small fraction of potentially depositable material will form deposits, and most of the material that could deposit will pass through the system either ending up in the paper or in the effluent without causing any problems whatsoever.

   2013, Che On Au, I. Thorn, editors, Applications of Wet-End Paper Chemistry, illustrated edition, page 33

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   Had the ransom been of the nature of depositable things, (viz. to secure satisfaction in case the treaty took effect, and to be resumed in case it succeeded not), it had much altered the matter; there had no great damage accrued to the depositor; he might have received his own again, though not with advantage: but sufferings once undergone cannot be recalled; …

   1762, Elisha Coles, A Practical Discourse OF GOD's Sovereignty, with OTHER MATERIAL POINTS DERIVED Thence., 14th edition, pages 180-181

   The hereinbefore described method of producing from an impure solution of zinc salts a zinc electrolyte free from depositable impurities which consists in subjecting the solution to the action of an electric current to precipitate and deposit the depositable impurities and at the same time preventing the re-solution of such impurities in the solution by neutralizing the acid set free in the bath a neutralizing agent which is free from depositable impurities soluble in rhw solvent element of the bath, substantially as set forth.

   1894, SPECIFICATIONS AND DRAWINGS OF PATENTS ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FOR JANUARY, 1894., Part 1, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 1041