organosol

From organo- (“organic”) +‎ -sol (“soil”).

organosol (plural organosols)

1. A histosol, a soil comprising chiefly organic material.
   • 1990, University of Michigan Southeast Asia Business Education and Resources Program, Southeast Asia Business, Issues 12-23, page 25,

     On the other hand, in many parts of Kalimantan the climate is similar, and it also has large areas of yellow-red podsolic and organosol soils, which although having a rather low fertility, are suitable for some tree crops.

   • 2000, A. Clough, I. P. G. Widjaja-Adhi, J. Sri Adidingsih, A. Kosno, S. Fukai, “Characterizing soil phosphorus and potassium status in lowland and upland rice-cropping regions of Indonesia”, in T. P. Tuong, editor, Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments, page 171:

     Organosols, alluvials, and Latosols are also prevalent particularly in the coastal swamp lands in Sumatra that have been developed as part of the transmigration program (Widjaja-Adhi et al 1996).

   • 2004, Neil McKenzie, Australian Soils and Landscapes: An Illustrated Compendium, page 288:

     Most Organosols are wet soils and many have long been known as peats. […] Some of the less acidic Organosols in southern Australia have been drained and sown to pastures for dairying or used for intensive vegetable growing.

• alfisol, andosol, entisol, grumusol, inceptisol, latosol, mollisol, oxisol, podsol, spodosol, ultisol, vermisol

From organo- (“organic”) +‎ sol (“colloid”).

organosol (plural organosols)

1. A sol (colloid) comprising solid particles in an organic continuous medium.
   • 1969, Harold A. Sarvetnick, Polyvinyl Chloride, page 207:

     With a suitable undercoating, the top coat may consist of an organosol or plastisol which is free from modifying resins.

   • 1999, Yoshikazu Tanabe, Macromolecular Science and Engineering: New Aspects, page 126:

     By the use of metal carbonyls, which are highly soluble in many organic solvents, metal organosols are obtained by thermal decomposition of the metal carbonyls.

   • 2006, Gleb Borisovich Sergeev, Nanochemistry, page 62:

     The spectrum of Pb–MA^{[lead methylacrylate]} organosols was characterized by the presence of the absorption band of lead plasmon with the maximum at ~220 nm.

• hydrosol
• organo-solid sol
• plastisol

Borrowed from French organosol.

organosol m (plural organosoli)

1. organosol