Maceration

Template:Sister project Maceration may refer to:

• Maceration (food), in food preparation
• Maceration (wine), a step in wine-making
  • Carbonic maceration, a wine-making technique
• Maceration (sewage), in sewage treatment
• Maceration (bone), a method of preparing bones
• Acid maceration, the use of an acid to extract micro-fossils from rock
• Maceration, in chemistry, the preparation of an extract by solvent extraction
• Maceration, in biology, the mechanical breakdown of ingested food into chyme
• Skin maceration, in dermatology, the softening and whitening of skin that is kept constantly wet
• Maceration, in poultry farming, a method of chick culling