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swellability

noun

Etymology

From swell + -ability.

  1. inherited from *swellaną✻ — “to swell”
  2. inherited from *swellan✻
  3. inherited from swellan
  4. inherited from swellen
  5. suffixed as swellability — “swell + ability”

Definitions

  1. Quality or degree of being swellable.

    • We also observed significantly lower swellability for hydrogel nanocomposites relative to neat hydrogels, consistent with previous work suggesting that nanoparticles can mediate pseudo crosslinking within polymer networks.

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