Question: I am writing a technical paper where I have described an experiment resulting in "x". Then I go on to describe the result of a second experiment whose result was expected since the reason was deduced in the previous experiment (x). I'm looking for a phrase to tie the two sentences together but I did not want to use "as expected" or "it would follow".

I know there is another phrase out there that suits better but I can't seem to come up with it right now so I need your help. Thanks.

Answer: 
How about: clearly, apparently, obviously, evidently, patently?

The word obviously can sometimes affect readers adversely, "well, it wasn't so obvious to me."
[Ergo](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ergo)

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(definition from m-w.com)