Word.ws English Dictionary

solvatochromism

solvatochromism noun: a change in colour (due to changes in position and/or intensity of absorption or emission bands) that accompanies a change in the polarity of a solvent.

Noun

solvatochromism (uncountable)

  1. A change in colour (due to changes in position and/or intensity of absorption or emission bands) that accompanies a change in the polarity of a solvent

Questions about solvatochromism

What does solvatochromism mean?
Solvatochromism means a change in colour (due to changes in position and/or intensity of absorption or emission bands) that accompanies a change in the polarity of a solvent.
What part of speech is solvatochromism?
Solvatochromism is a noun.

Words near solvatochromism in the dictionary

  1. solvatisation
  2. solvatization
  3. solvatizations
  4. solvatochromatic
  5. solvatochromic
  6. solvatochromism
  7. solvatofluorochromic
  8. solvatofluorochromism
  9. solvatomorph
  10. solvatomorphs
  11. Solvay

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: solvatochromism (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “solvatochromism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/solvatochromism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.