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Diffusible   Listen
adjective
Diffusible  adj.  
1.
Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
2.
(Physiol.) Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.





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"Diffusible" Quotes from Famous Books



... be either crystalloids, i.e. susceptible of crystallization, or colloids-jelly-like masses. HCl is the most diffusible in liquids of all known substances; caramel is one of the least so. To separate the two, they would be put into a dialyzer suspended in water, when HCl will diffuse through into the water, and caramel will remain. As2O3, in cases of ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams
... suffices, and both appetite and digestion are held to be improved by it. The result of "turning over a new leaf," in the shape of a phial of thin "Gladstone," was a lumbago which lasted me a long month, and which disappeared only after a liberal adhibition of "diffusible stimulants." ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... with iodine solution, a deep blue coloration results. The first product of starch degradation by either acids or diastase, namely soluble starch, also exhibits the same coloration when treated with iodine. As degradation proceeds, and the products become more and more soluble and diffusible, the blue reaction with iodine gives place first to a purple, then to a reddish colour, and finally the coloration ceases altogether. In the same way, the optical rotating power decreases, and the cupric reducing power (towards ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various


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