Fractionation

Fraktionierung , borrowed from the French fraction "grouping", which goes back to the Latin frāctio "fragment", stands for:

• Fiber length fractionation
• Isotope fractionation , the enrichment, depletion or separation of different isotopes of an element
• Polymer fractionation (chemistry), the separation of long and / or short-chain components from plastics
• Plasma fractionation , the separation of different components (usually proteins) of the blood plasma in pharmacy.
• Enrichment or depletion or separation of different elements or chemical compounds according to temperature, see fractional distillation
• Enrichment or depletion or separation of different substance mixtures, see fractional crystallization (chemistry)
• Enrichment or depletion or separation of different minerals, see fractional crystallization (petrology)
• Administering fractions of a total radiation dose over several sessions of radiation therapy, see Radiotherapy # Fractionation
• in cryptology the breaking down of individual characters of a plaintext into two or more components and their subsequent "tearing up", see fractionation (cryptology)

See also:

• fraction

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