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flotation tank

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flotation tank
a once-popular, but now little used, technique of suspending a horse in a harness in a tank filled with water for long periods while a limb bone fracture healed; still used for brief periods of several days for lesser injuries.


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Flotation tank cells will be used for metallurgical recovery of the nickel.
The 22,000-square-foot plant has four different magnets, two separate picking lines, two shredders and a water flotation tank that separates wood from aggregate.
In a noncontrolled study, University of California-Davis veterinarians reported about a 45% recovery rate with the use of the flotation tank.
 
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