ampholyte

ampholyte

English

Etymology

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

Noun

ampholyte (plural ampholytes)

1. (chemistry) An amphoteric electrolyte

Related terms

• ampholytic
• polyampholyte

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

1. 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, issue 7, DOI:10.1021/j150079a003, page 531

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French

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Noun

ampholyte m (plural ampholytes)

1. ampholyte

Further reading

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