coacervation

[ koh-as-er-vey-shuhn ]

noun

, Physical Chemistry.

1. the process of becoming a coacervate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coacervation¹

1350–1400; Middle English coacervacioun < Latin coacervātiōn- (stem of coacervātiō ), equivalent to coacervāt ( us ) ( coacervate ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

“It seems that coacervation and the underlying processing possibilities for conformational switching offered by protein coacervates are not yet sufficiently appreciated and understood in materials science,” the authors wrote.

From Salon

So it might well be, for Gilbert was still concerned with distinguishing the nature of the heavenly body, earth, that caused the coitional and revolving motions, from those natures for which up and down, and coacervation were the natural motions.

From Project Gutenberg

Different bodies have different effluvia, and so one has coacervation of different materials.

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In addition, since coacervation is electric, and electric forces can be screened, it should have been possible to reduce the downward motion of a body by screening!

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To tell you what is Latin for Constitution, will not make you a particle the wiser; I will, therefore, explain it in the vernacular tongue.—Constitution then, in its primary, abstract, and true signification, is a concatenation or coacervation of simple, distinct parts, of various qualities or properties, united, compounded, or constituted in such a manner, as to form or compose a system or body, when viewed in its aggregate or general nature.

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