Degelation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The conversion of a gel into a liquid. uncountable

    "The networks were shown to undergo chain scission predominantly, which leads to their degelation, i.e., the recovery of a thermoplastic-like behavior with loss of all elastically active chains."

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"The networks were shown to undergo chain scission predominantly, which leads to their degelation, i.e., the recovery of a thermoplastic-like behavior with loss of all elastically active chains."

Etymology

From de- + gelation.

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