Definition of Peptize

1. Verb. Disperse in a medium into a colloidal state.

Exact synonyms: Peptise
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Generic synonyms: Separate
Derivative terms: Peptisation, Peptization

Definition of Peptize

1. to increase the colloidal dispersion of [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peptize

peptidyl leukotrienes
peptidyl prolyl cis trans isomerase
peptidylamidoglycolate lyase
peptidyldipeptidase
peptidylglycine monooxygenase
peptidylprolyl
peptidylprolyl isomerase
peptidyltransferase
peptisation
peptise
peptised
peptises
peptising
peptization
peptizations
peptize (current term)
peptized
peptizer
peptizers
peptizes
peptizing
peptococcus
peptocrinine
peptogen
peptogenic
peptogenous
peptogens
peptohydrochloric
peptoid

Literary usage of Peptize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"... there is no reason liquid gelatine or a gelatine-rich phase should not peptize water. It is probable therefore that with gelatinous precipitates and ..."

2. Laboratory Manual of Colloid Chemistry by Harry Nicholls Holmes (1922)
"The amount of NaOH required to peptize the gel is far less than the ... Or peptize a freshly precipitated tung- stic acid with oxalic acid, and dialyze. ..."

3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"If every id- sorbed substance tends to peptize the adsorbing substance one may expect to get ftp tization by a solvent, by a dissolved nonelectrolyte, ..."

4. Studies in Dyeing and Cleaning by Dyer Barker Lake (1916)
"Hence the conclusion that a dye in solution (true or colloidal) possesses apparently far less ability to peptize an adsorbed dye than does water and, ..."

5. The Georgia Eclectic Medical Journal (1886)
"A piece of rennet an inch square will peptize a pint of milk in a few hours. The beauty of rennet if, it can be washed clean after using, dried and ready ..."

6. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"Chromic chloride soins, peptize hydrous chromic oxide. No appreciable amt. of basic chloride appears to be formed. It is not possible to shake out hydrous ..."

7. American Fuels by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1922)
"Second, it is possible to peptize bituminous coals and some other solid carbonaceous substances, to a limited but sufficient extent for stabilizing purposes ..."

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