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organosol

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from solve — “wash away”
  2. derived from sol
  3. inherited from sol
  4. prefixed as organosol — “organo + sol”

Definitions

  1. A histosol, a soil comprising chiefly organic material.

    • 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).
    • 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.

  2. A sol (colloid) comprising solid particles in an organic continuous medium.

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

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA