单词 | self-repellency |
释义 | self-repellencyn. Now chiefly historical. With reference to a substance (esp. a fluid or gas): the property of tending to expand due to consisting of particles which repel each other. With reference to particles, molecules, etc., of the same substance or type: the property of repelling each other. Cf. self-repulsion n.Chiefly with reference to heat and electricity regarded as fluids. Cf. caloric n. 1, electric fluid n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > gaseous phase > [noun] > gas > properties > others self-repellency1803 1803 J. Robison Black's Lect. Elements Chem. I. 34 We may expect to find the matter of heat..rarefied, in consequence of its own..self-repellency. 1877 G. B. Prescott Electr. & Electric Telegr. ii. 12 The self-repellency of the electricity in [the body] R is thus neutralized by the attraction of [the insulated conductor] a b. 1982 Technol. & Culture 23 25 [This theory] postulated that heat was a subtle fluid whose minute particles possessed the property of self-repellency. 2014 Jrnl. Chromatogr. A. 1324 177/1 The higher the self-repellency, the more the protein resists self-association through steric exclusion of PEG. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1803 |
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