"micelle" meaning in English

See micelle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /maɪˈsɛl/, /məˈsɛl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-micelle.wav Forms: micelles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛl Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin micella, from mica (“crumb”) + -ella. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|NL.|micella}} New Latin micella Head templates: {{en-noun}} micelle (plural micelles)
  1. (chemistry) a colloidal aggregate, in a simple geometric form, of a specific number of amphipathic molecules which forms at a well-defined concentration, called the critical micelle concentration Wikipedia link: en:micelle Categories (topical): Chemistry, Liquids Synonyms: micell [dated], micella Derived forms: critical micelle concentration, hemimicelle, micellar, micellize, micromicelle, nanomicelle, pseudomicelle, submicelle Translations (colloidal aggregate): micel·la [feminine] (Catalan), 膠束 (Chinese Mandarin), 胶束 (jiāoshù) (Chinese Mandarin), micela [feminine] (Czech), micelle [common-gender] (Danish), miselli (Finnish), micelle [feminine] (French), Mizelle [feminine] (German), micella [feminine] (Italian), мицелла (misella) (Kazakh), мицелла (mitsella) (Kyrgyz), micela [feminine] (Polish), micela [feminine] (Portuguese), мице́лла (micélla) [feminine] (Russian), micela [feminine] (Spanish), micell [common-gender] (Swedish), misel (Turkish)

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