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PEPTIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they peptize ... he / she / it peptizes
Past simple: peptized
Past participle: peptized
-ing form: peptizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disperse in a medium into a colloidal state
Synonyms:
peptise; peptize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "peptize" is one way to...):
separate (divide into components or constituents)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
peptization (the process of converting to a sol; bringing to a colloidal solution)
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