polyelectrolyte

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ electro- +‎ -lyte.

Noun

polyelectrolyte (plural polyelectrolytes)

  1. A polymeric electrolyte (such as a protein).
    • (Can we date this quote?), “Gauss's law”, in web.chem.ox.ac.uk‎[1]:
      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.

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