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ANYONE who has resorted to the technique of dialysis will be aware of an odd and inconvenient gap in the terminology relating to the process. For the substances which pass through the dialysis membrane there there is a generally accepted term: ‘dialysate’.
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TURNER, E., FEINBERG, J. Retentate: a New Scientific Term. Nature 184, 1139 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841139a0
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