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selenophilic

selenophilic adjective: tending to absorb selenium.

Adjective

selenophilic (comparative more selenophilic, superlative most selenophilic)

  1. Tending to absorb selenium.
    • In some cases, soil concentrations are such that selenophilic plants can accumulate selenium to toxic concentrations.1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 931
    • Nevertheless, the addition of a selenophilic trap is often beneficial as highlighted in a number of the examples in this section.2015 October 26, Molecular Rearrangements in Organic Synthesis, Wiley, →ISBN, page 614

Forms of selenophilic

comparativemore selenophilic
superlativemost selenophilic

Origin of selenophilic

From selenophile + -ic.

Questions about selenophilic

What does selenophilic mean?
Selenophilic means tending to absorb selenium.
What part of speech is selenophilic?
Selenophilic is an adjective.

Words near selenophilic in the dictionary

  1. selenophene
  2. selenophenes
  3. selenophile
  4. selenophiles
  5. selenophilia
  6. selenophilic
  7. selenophobia
  8. selenophorine
  9. selenophorines
  10. selenophosphate
  11. selenophosphate synthetase

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