Colligative

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present. not-comparable, physical

Etymology

From Latin colligātus (“bound together”) + -ive. Coined by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1891.

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colligative property

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