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lyophilic

lyophilic adjective: having an affinity for the dispersion medium and thus not easily precipitated.

Adjective

lyophilic (comparative more lyophilic, superlative most lyophilic)

  1. Having an affinity for the dispersion medium and thus not easily precipitated.
    • In second sub-group, the “emulsion-colloids” or “lyophilic colloids,” the properties of the solvent are considerably influenced. The internal friction, surface tension, and other properties of the liquid show great changes even when only a small proportion of matter is in colloidal solution.1908, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry,, volume 27, page 935
    Synonyms:
    lyophile

lyophilic meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

lyophilic in Tamil

கரைப்பான் ஏற்கும், நீர் ஏற்கும், கரைப்பான் விரும்பும், கரைதிரவநாட்டமுள்ள

lyophilic in Tagalog

having an affinity for the dispersion medium and thus not easily precipitated
danumhigumin

Synonyms of lyophilic

Antonyms

Forms of lyophilic

comparativemore lyophilic
superlativemost lyophilic

Origin of lyophilic

US, c. 1908; compare earlier lyophilize (1894). lyo- (“solvent, dispersion”) + -philic (“having affinity for”), from Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to loosen, to dissolve”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + Latin -icus.

Questions about lyophilic

What does lyophilic mean?
Lyophilic means having an affinity for the dispersion medium and thus not easily precipitated.
What is lyophilic in Tamil?
Lyophilic in Tamil is கரைப்பான் ஏற்கும், நீர் ஏற்கும், கரைப்பான் விரும்பும். See Lyophilic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lyophilic?
Lyophilic is an adjective.

Words near lyophilic in the dictionary

  1. lyophilate
  2. lyophilates
  3. lyophile
  4. lyophiled
  5. lyophiles
  6. lyophilic
  7. lyophilisate
  8. lyophilisates
  9. lyophilisation
  10. lyophilisations
  11. lyophilise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lyophilic (page history and authors); lyophilic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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