Polyelectrolyte

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A polymeric electrolyte (such as a protein).

    "This is rather a physicsy example, but it is of some importance in chemical systems, for example a charged polyelectrolyte (polymer) is modelled like this."

  2. 2
    an electrolyte of high molecular weight wordnet

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"This is rather a physicsy example, but it is of some importance in chemical systems, for example a charged polyelectrolyte (polymer) is modelled like this."

Etymology

From poly- + electro- + -lyte.

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