trituration

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The standard process for isolating stem cells from neural tissue required roughing up the tissue and then sluicing it aggressively through a pipette, a process known as trituration.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

This opened the possibility that the rough process of trituration was not merely segregating the stem cells from the tissue.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

She may learn to talk of oxygen and hydrogen, and deflagration, and trituration but she will know nothing of the science except the terms.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

Mercury combines readily with sulphur by trituration, and with it forms a black powder called Ethiops mineral.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph