(under subclass 241) Process in which a frothy or sudslike dispersion is resolved or broken into separate fluid phases.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
155, and 157, for other processes of defoaming a liquid.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
96, Gas Separation: Apparatus,
176+, for defoaming apparatus.
516, Colloid Systems and Wetting Agents; Subcombinations Thereof; Processes of Making, Stabilizing, Breaking, or Inhibiting,
115+, for processes of or compositions for or subcombination compositions for the breaking of or inhibiting of foam colloid systems, when generically claimed or when there is no hierarchically superior provision in the USPC for the specifically claimed art.
