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polychelating

polychelating adjective: that forms multiple chelate bonds.

Adjective

polychelating (not comparable)

  1. That forms multiple chelate bonds
    • [ 36 ] studied polychelating amphiphilic polymers with Gd(III) incorporated into liposomes.2015 August 10, Simone Rodrigues Silva et al., “Gadolinium(III) Complexes with N-Alkyl-N-methylglucamine Surfactants Incorporated into Liposomes as Potential MRI Contrast Agents”, in Bioinorganic...

Origin of polychelating

From poly- + chelating.

Questions about polychelating

What does polychelating mean?
Polychelating means that forms multiple chelate bonds.
What part of speech is polychelating?
Polychelating is an adjective.

Words near polychelating in the dictionary

  1. polychaetologists
  2. polychaetotic
  3. polychaetous
  4. polychalcogenide
  5. polychalcogenides
  6. polychelating
  7. polychelid
  8. polychelids
  9. polychemotherapeutic
  10. polychemotherapies
  11. polychemotherapy

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