salting out

salting out
The precipitation of a protein from its solution by saturation or partial saturation with such neutral salts as sodium chloride, magnesium sulfate, or ammonium sulfate.

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salt·ing out (sawlґting out) precipitation of proteins by raising the salt concentration; any soluble protein will precipitate out of solution if enough neutral salt is added.

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