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hyperporous

hyperporous adjective: excessively porous.

Adjective

hyperporous (not comparable)

  1. Excessively porous
    • Images also indicated that gel porosity was in the nanometer range, similar to previously characterized hyperporous beads generated using the same sol-gel methods, which limits mobility of encapsulated cells (Fig 2B ) [23 ].2016 January 14, “Toward Bioremediation of Methylmercury Using Silica Encapsulated Escherichia coli Harboring the mer Operon”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of hyperporous

From hyper- + porous.

Questions about hyperporous

What does hyperporous mean?
Hyperporous means excessively porous.
What part of speech is hyperporous?
Hyperporous is an adjective.

Words near hyperporous in the dictionary

  1. hyperpolypharmacy
  2. hyperpolyploidization
  3. hyperpolysyllabic
  4. hyperpop
  5. hyperpopular
  6. hyperporous
  7. hyperpotassaemia
  8. hyperpotassemia
  9. hyperpower
  10. hyperpowers
  11. hyperprebetalipoproteinaemia

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