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viscoids

viscoids is the plural of viscoid.

Meaning of viscoid

Noun

viscoid (usually uncountable, plural viscoids)

  1. (dated, usually) A powdered amorphous form of cellulose.
    • One of us observed that anhydrous cellulose rose in temperature whilst taking up moisture from the atmosphere, and that this rise of temperature appeared to have some relation to the increase in weight (Nature, xlix., 457; and Chemical News, Ixxi., 1). The above experiments were done with...1896 April 17, Clayton Beadle, O.W. Dahl, “Increase in temperature of cellulose on absorption of atmospheric moisture”, in Chemical News, volume 73, number 1899, page 180

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Questions about viscoids

What is viscoids the plural of?
Viscoids is the plural of viscoid.

Words near viscoids in the dictionary

  1. viscoelastoplastic
  2. viscoelastoplasticity
  3. viscoexpression
  4. viscoid
  5. viscoidal
  6. viscoids
  7. viscometer
  8. viscometers
  9. viscometric
  10. viscometrically
  11. viscometry

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