ampholyte

English

Etymology

Blend of amphoteric +‎ electrolyte, coined by Australian physiologist and biochemist Thorburn Brailsford Robertson in 1906.[1]

Noun

ampholyte (plural ampholytes)

(chemistry) An amphoteric electrolyte

Related terms

Translations

amphoteric electrolyte

Danish: amfolyt c
Finnish: amfolyytti (fi)
German: Ampholyt (de) m
Hungarian: amfolit
Italian: anfolito m
Polish: amfolit m
Portuguese: anfólito m, anfolito m

References

Robertson, T. Brailsford (1906) “On the Conditions of Equilibrium of an Associating Amphoteric Electrolyte in the Presence of any Number of Non-Amphoteric Electrolytes”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume 10, number 7, →DOI, page 531

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

ampholyte m (plural ampholytes)

ampholyte

Further reading

“ampholyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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