Usually means: Substances causing other substances to precipitate.
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  1. precipitants: Merriam-Webster
  2. precipitants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. precipitants: Vocabulary.com
  4. precipitants: Wiktionary
  5. precipitants: Dictionary.com
  6. precipitants: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. precipitants: Legal dictionary

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  1. precipitants: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. precipitants: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. precipitants: Medical dictionary

(Note: See precipitant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (precipitant)

adjective:  Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
adjective:  Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
adjective:  (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
adjective:  (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
adverb:  (archaic) Synonym of precipitantly (“in a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste”)
noun:  Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
noun:  (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
▸ Also see precipitant


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