PRECIPITANT

• (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form

  In order to make water drinkable and safe, it is treated with various precipitants that work to separate the impurities from the water. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) done with very great haste and without due deliberation

  "hasty marriage seldom proveth well", "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning", "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion", "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

  synonyms : hasty , overhasty , precipitate , precipitous

  Her precipitant acceptance of his proposal of marriage surprised everyone. -added by naila_inlas

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