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polyelectrolyte

polyelectrolyte noun: a polymeric electrolyte (such as a protein).

Noun

polyelectrolyte (plural polyelectrolytes)

  1. A polymeric electrolyte (such as a protein).
    • This is rather a physicsy example, but it is of some importance in chemical systems, for example a charged polyelectrolyte (polymer) is modelled like this.(Can we date this quote?), “Gauss's law”, in web.chem.ox.ac.uk

Forms of polyelectrolyte

pluralpolyelectrolytes

Origin of polyelectrolyte

From poly- + electro- + -lyte.

Words formed from polyelectrolyte

Questions about polyelectrolyte

What does polyelectrolyte mean?
Polyelectrolyte means a polymeric electrolyte (such as a protein).
What part of speech is polyelectrolyte?
Polyelectrolyte is a noun.
What is the plural of polyelectrolyte?
The plural of polyelectrolyte is polyelectrolytes.

Words near polyelectrolyte in the dictionary

  1. polyeidic
  2. polyeidism
  3. polyelastomer
  4. polyelastomeric
  5. polyelastomers
  6. polyelectrolyte
  7. polyelectrolytes
  8. polyelectrolytic
  9. polyelectronic
  10. polyelectrostatic
  11. polyembryo

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