Definition of Coacervation

1. n. A heaping together.

Definition of Coacervation

1. Noun. The separation of a colloidal system into two liquid phases, one of which (the coacervate) is more concentrated in the colloid component ¹

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Definition of Coacervation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Coacervation

1. Formation of a coacervate. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coacervation

co-wife
co-wives
co-worker
co-workers
co-write
co-writes
co-writing
co-written
co-wrote
coaccumulation
coaccused
coaccuseds
coacervate
coacervated
coacervates
coacervation (current term)
coacervations
coach
coach-and-four
coach box
coach dog
coach gun
coach horse
coach house
coach lamp
coach roof
coach station
coach up
coachability
coachable

Literary usage of Coacervation

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

1. An essay on headachs, and on their cure by Walter Vaughan (1825)
"yet a coacervation of faeces be retained in the rectum, whenever I suspect it, however a patient may have been purged, I prescribe accordingly. ..."

2. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Emanuel Swedenborg (1843)
"It is asserted by some, that a substance so simple exists, that it is not a form from lesser forms, and that from that substance, by coacervation, ..."

3. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"But the simple right-downward motion assumed by the Peripatetics is the movement of weight, of coacervation, of separated parts, in the ratio of their ..."

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