[n. of action f. prec.: see -ATION.] The action or process of titrating; volumetric analysis. Also attrib.

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1864.  Webster, Titration, the process of analysis by means of standard solutions.

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1868.  Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 849. Titration. See Analysis, volumetric (I. 254 (dated 1863: word not used there]). Ibid. (1872), VI. 154. Titration of Compound Ethers.

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1877.  W. Thomson, Voy. Challenger, I. i. 26. The amount of baryta neutralized is then ascertained by titration.

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1899.  Cagney, trans. Jaksch’s Clin. Diagn., vii. (ed. 4), 377. 80 cc. of the titration fluid, i. e. sulpho-cyanide, was used.

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1900.  Jrnl. Soc. Dyers, XXI. 4. The formation … as shewn by Bernthsen by titration, has now been proved by gravimetric analysis.

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