Gel, the Glossary
A gel is a semi-solid that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough.[1]
Table of Contents
107 relations: Absorption (chemistry), Acid dissociation constant, Acid strength, Actuator, Adhesive, Aerogel, Affine transformation, Agarose gel electrophoresis, Cartilage, Chemical bond, Clipping (morphology), Colloid, Computational fluid dynamics, Cross-link, Crystallinity, Crystallite, Deformation (engineering), Deformation (physics), Depletion force, Desalination, Dialysis (chemistry), Disulfide, Drug delivery, Elasticity (physics), Electrostatics, Encyclopedia of Earth, End-to-end vector, Entropic force, Entropy of mixing, Flocculation, Flory–Huggins solution theory, Food rheology, Gel, Gel electrophoresis, Gel permeation chromatography, Gelatin, Gelation, Gibbs–Donnan effect, Glass, Hair gel, Hydrogel, Ice pack, Ideal chain, Implant (medicine), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Intervertebral disc, Ionization, Isotropy, Lamella (materials), Liquid, ... Expand index (57 more) »
- Colloids
- Gels
Absorption (chemistry)
Absorption is a physical or chemical phenomenon or a process in which atoms, molecules or ions enter the liquid or solid bulk phase of a material. Gel and Absorption (chemistry) are physical chemistry.
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Acid dissociation constant
In chemistry, an acid dissociation constant (also known as acidity constant, or acid-ionization constant; denoted) is a quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution. Gel and acid dissociation constant are physical chemistry.
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Acid strength
Acid strength is the tendency of an acid, symbolised by the chemical formula HA, to dissociate into a proton, H+, and an anion, A-.
Actuator
An actuator is a component of a machine that produces force, torque, or displacement, usually in a controlled way, when an electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic input is supplied to it in a system (called an actuating system).
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Adhesive
Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.
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Aerogel
Aerogels are a class of synthetic porous ultralight material derived from a gel, in which the liquid component for the gel has been replaced with a gas, without significant collapse of the gel structure.
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Affine transformation
In Euclidean geometry, an affine transformation or affinity (from the Latin, affinis, "connected with") is a geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism, but not necessarily Euclidean distances and angles.
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Agarose gel electrophoresis
Agarose gel electrophoresis is a method of gel electrophoresis used in biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and clinical chemistry to separate a mixed population of macromolecules such as DNA or proteins in a matrix of agarose, one of the two main components of agar.
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Cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue.
Chemical bond
A chemical bond is the association of atoms or ions to form molecules, crystals, and other structures.
Clipping (morphology)
In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a synonym.
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Colloid
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Gel and colloid are colloids and Dosage forms.
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Computational fluid dynamics
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows.
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Cross-link
emanate, and formed by reactions involving sites or groups on existingmacromolecules or by interactions between existing macromolecules.
Crystallinity
Crystallinity refers to the degree of structural order in a solid.
Crystallite
A crystallite is a small or even microscopic crystal which forms, for example, during the cooling of many materials.
Deformation (engineering)
In engineering, deformation (the change in size or shape of an object) may be elastic or plastic.
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Deformation (physics)
In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object.
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Depletion force
A depletion force is an effective attractive force that arises between large colloidal particles that are suspended in a dilute solution of depletants, which are smaller solutes that are preferentially excluded from the vicinity of the large particles.
Desalination
Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water.
Dialysis (chemistry)
In chemistry, dialysis is the process of separating molecules in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane, such as dialysis tubing.
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Disulfide
In chemistry, a disulfide (or disulphide in British English) is a compound containing a functional group or the anion.
Drug delivery
Drug delivery refers to approaches, formulations, manufacturing techniques, storage systems, and technologies involved in transporting a pharmaceutical compound to its target site to achieve a desired therapeutic effect.
Elasticity (physics)
In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed.
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Electrostatics
Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies slow-moving or stationary electric charges.
Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth (abbreviated EoE) is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
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End-to-end vector
In the physical chemistry study of polymers, the end-to-end vector is the vector that points from one end of a polymer to the other end.
Entropic force
In physics, an entropic force acting in a system is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy, rather than from a particular underlying force on the atomic scale.
Entropy of mixing
In thermodynamics, the entropy of mixing is the increase in the total entropy when several initially separate systems of different composition, each in a thermodynamic state of internal equilibrium, are mixed without chemical reaction by the thermodynamic operation of removal of impermeable partition(s) between them, followed by a time for establishment of a new thermodynamic state of internal equilibrium in the new unpartitioned closed system.
Flocculation
In colloidal chemistry, flocculation is a process by which colloidal particles come out of suspension to sediment in the form of floc or flake, either spontaneously or due to the addition of a clarifying agent.
Flory–Huggins solution theory
Flory–Huggins solution theory is a lattice model of the thermodynamics of polymer solutions which takes account of the great dissimilarity in molecular sizes in adapting the usual expression for the entropy of mixing.
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Food rheology
Food rheology is the study of the rheological properties of food, that is, the consistency and flow of food under tightly specified conditions.
Gel
A gel is a semi-solid that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gel and gel are colloids, Dosage forms, drug delivery devices, gels and physical chemistry.
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Gel electrophoresis
Gel electrophoresis is a method for separation and analysis of biomacromolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins, etc.) and their fragments, based on their size and charge. Gel and Gel electrophoresis are gels.
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Gel permeation chromatography
Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is a type of size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), that separates high molecular weight or colloidal analytes on the basis of size or diameter, typically in organic solvents.
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Gelatin
Gelatin or gelatine is a translucent, colorless, flavorless food ingredient, commonly derived from collagen taken from animal body parts. Gel and gelatin are gels.
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Gelation
In polymer chemistry, gelation (gel transition) is the formation of a gel from a system with polymers. Gel and gelation are colloids, Dosage forms, drug delivery devices, gels and physical chemistry.
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Gibbs–Donnan effect
The Gibbs–Donnan effect (also known as the Donnan's effect, Donnan law, Donnan equilibrium, or Gibbs–Donnan equilibrium) is a name for the behaviour of charged particles near a semi-permeable membrane that sometimes fail to distribute evenly across the two sides of the membrane. Gel and Gibbs–Donnan effect are physical chemistry.
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Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.
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Hair gel
Hair gel is a hairstyling product that is used to harden hair into a particular hairstyle.
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Hydrogel
A hydrogel is a biphasic material, a mixture of porous, permeable solids and at least 10% by weight or volume of interstitial fluid composed completely or mainly by water. Gel and hydrogel are gels.
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Ice pack
An ice pack or gel pack is a portable bag filled with water, refrigerant gel, or liquid, meant to provide cooling.
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Ideal chain
An ideal chain (or freely-jointed chain) is the simplest model in polymer chemistry to describe polymers, such as nucleic acids and proteins.
Implant (medicine)
An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure.
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International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is an international federation of National Adhering Organizations working for the advancement of the chemical sciences, especially by developing nomenclature and terminology.
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Intervertebral disc
An intervertebral disc (or intervertebral fibrocartilage) lies between adjacent vertebrae in the vertebral column.
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Ionization
Ionization (or ionisation specifically in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) is the process by which an atom or a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge by gaining or losing electrons, often in conjunction with other chemical changes. Gel and Ionization are physical chemistry.
Isotropy
In physics and geometry, isotropy is uniformity in all orientations.
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Lamella (materials)
A lamella (lamellae) is a small plate or flake, from the Latin, and may also be used to refer to collections of fine sheets of material held adjacent to one another, in a gill-shaped structure, often with fluid in between though sometimes simply a set of 'welded' plates.
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Liquid
A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a nearly constant volume independent of pressure.
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Long-finned pilot whale
The long-finned pilot whale, or pothead whale (Globicephala melas) is a large species of oceanic dolphin.
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Mass fraction (chemistry)
In chemistry, the mass fraction of a substance within a mixture is the ratio w_i (alternatively denoted Y_i) of the mass m_i of that substance to the total mass m_\text of the mixture.
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Mesophase
In chemistry and chemical physics, a mesophase or mesomorphic phase is a phase of matter intermediate between solid and liquid.
Mineral oil
Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils.
Mucus
Mucus is a slippery aqueous secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes.
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Nanocomposite hydrogels
Nanocomposite hydrogels (NC gels) are nanomaterial-filled, hydrated, polymeric networks that exhibit higher elasticity and strength relative to traditionally made hydrogels. Gel and Nanocomposite hydrogels are gels.
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Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials describe, in principle, chemical substances or materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale).
National Council for Science and the Environment
The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is a U.S.-based nonpartisan, non-profit organization which has a mission to improve the scientific basis of environmental decision-making.
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Non-Newtonian fluid
A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid that does not follow Newton's law of viscosity, that is, it has variable viscosity dependent on stress.
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Online Etymology Dictionary
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
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Organic compound
Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.
Osmotic pressure
Osmotic pressure is the minimum pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of its pure solvent across a semipermeable membrane.
Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion
Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion (also known as passive double immunodiffusion) is an immunological technique used in the detection, identification and quantification of antibodies and antigens, such as immunoglobulins and extractable nuclear antigens.
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Paste (rheology)
In physics, a paste is a substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid. Gel and paste (rheology) are Dosage forms and drug delivery devices.
Percolation theory
In statistical physics and mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of a network when nodes or links are added.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or old drugs into a medication to be used safely and effectively by patients.
Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) is a technique widely used in biochemistry, forensic chemistry, genetics, molecular biology and biotechnology to separate biological macromolecules, usually proteins or nucleic acids, according to their electrophoretic mobility.
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Polyelectrolyte
Polyelectrolytes are polymers whose repeating units bear an electrolyte group. Gel and Polyelectrolyte are colloids and physical chemistry.
Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
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Polymer solution
Polymer solutions are solutions containing dissolved polymers.
Porosity
Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
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Pure and Applied Chemistry
Pure and Applied Chemistry is the official journal for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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Quasi-solid
Quasi-solid, Falsely-solid, or semisolid is the physical term for something whose state lies between a solid and a liquid.
Radial immunodiffusion
Radial immunodiffusion (RID), Mancini immunodiffusion or single radial immunodiffusion assay, is an immunodiffusion technique used in immunology to determine the quantity or concentration of an antigen in a sample.
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Rheology
Rheology is the study of the flow of matter, primarily in a fluid (liquid or gas) state but also as "soft solids" or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applied force.
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Rubber elasticity
Rubber elasticity refers to a property of crosslinked rubber, namely that it can be stretched up to a factor of 10 from its original length.
Self-assembly
Self-assembly is a process in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure or pattern as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction.
Sensor
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of detecting a physical phenomenon.
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Shear modulus
In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is a measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain: where The derived SI unit of shear modulus is the pascal (Pa), although it is usually expressed in gigapascals (GPa) or in thousand pounds per square inch (ksi).
Silicone
In organosilicon and polymer chemistry, a silicone or polysiloxane is a polymer composed of repeating units of siloxane (where R.
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Sintering
Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by pressure or heat without melting it to the point of liquefaction.
Size-exclusion chromatography
Size-exclusion chromatography, also known as molecular sieve chromatography, is a chromatographic method in which molecules in solution are separated by their size, and in some cases molecular weight.
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Smart material
Smart materials, also called intelligent or responsive materials, are designed materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, moisture, electric or magnetic fields, light, temperature, pH, or chemical compounds.
Soft matter
Soft matter or soft condensed matter is a type of matter that can be deformed or structurally altered by thermal or mechanical stress of the magnitude of thermal fluctuations.
Sol–gel process
In materials science, the sol–gel process is a method for producing solid materials from small molecules. Gel and sol–gel process are Dosage forms and gels.
Solubility
In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent.
Solvent
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution.
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Specific surface area
Specific surface area (SSA) is a property of solids defined as the total surface area (SA) of a material per unit mass, (with units of m2/kg or m2/g).
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Stress (mechanics)
In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.
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Supercritical fluid
A supercritical fluid (SCF) is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point, where distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist, but below the pressure required to compress it into a solid.
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Surface tension
Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.
Tendon
A tendon or sinew is a tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.
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Thermodynamic free energy
In thermodynamics, the thermodynamic free energy is one of the state functions of a thermodynamic system (the others being internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, etc.). The change in the free energy is the maximum amount of work that the system can perform in a process at constant temperature, and its sign indicates whether the process is thermodynamically favorable or forbidden.
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Thermoplastic
A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.
Thickening agent
A thickening agent or thickener is a substance which can increase the viscosity of a liquid without substantially changing its other properties. Gel and thickening agent are gels.
Thiomer
Thiolated polymers designated thiomers are functional polymers used in biotechnology product development with the intention to prolong mucosal drug residence time and to enhance absorption of drugs. Gel and thiomer are drug delivery devices and gels.
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Thixotropy
Thixotropy is a time-dependent shear thinning property.
Thomas Graham (chemist)
Thomas Graham (20 December 1805 – 11 September 1869) was a Scottish chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases.
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Thrombus
A thrombus (thrombi), colloquially called a blood clot, is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis.
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Tissue engineering
Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of cells, engineering, materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintain, improve, or replace different types of biological tissues.
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Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis
Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, abbreviated as 2-DE or 2-D electrophoresis, is a form of gel electrophoresis commonly used to analyze proteins.
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Vegetable oil
Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants.
Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.
Vitreous body
The vitreous body (vitreous meaning "glass-like") is the clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball (the vitreous chamber) in humans and other vertebrates.
Void (composites)
A void or a pore is three-dimensional region that remains unfilled with polymer and fibers in a composite material.
2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid
2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS) was a Trademark name by The Lubrizol Corporation.
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See also
Colloids
- Aerosol
- Aerosols
- Artificial butter flavoring
- Bredig's arc method
- Butter
- Clay–water interaction
- Colloid
- Colloid-facilitated transport
- Colloidal chemistry
- Colloidal gold
- Dispersity
- Eigencolloid
- Emulsion
- Foam
- Formazine
- Freeze-casting
- Gel
- Gelation
- Gels
- Imbibition
- Nephelometer
- Patchy particles
- Peptization
- Polyelectrolyte
- Protective colloid
- Sodium adsorption ratio
- Sol (colloid)
- Syneresis (chemistry)
- Transport length
- Turbidity
- Wax emulsion
Gels
- Aerogels
- Agar
- Aluminum chloride hexahydrate
- Aquamid
- Bloom (test)
- Gel
- Gel electrophoresis
- Gelatin
- Gelation
- Gelclair
- Hantz reactions
- Hydrogel
- Low molecular-mass organic gelators
- Mechanics of gelation
- Nanocomposite hydrogels
- Nanofoam
- Organogels
- Polyacrylamide
- Silica gel
- Skin electrode gel
- Sol–gel process
- Thickening agent
- Thiomer
- Vetigel
- Water crystal gel
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel
Also known as Gels, Hair gels, Organogel, Sound induced gelation, Xerogel, Xerogels.
, Long-finned pilot whale, Mass fraction (chemistry), Mesophase, Mineral oil, Mucus, Nanocomposite hydrogels, Nanomaterials, National Council for Science and the Environment, Non-Newtonian fluid, Online Etymology Dictionary, Organic compound, Osmotic pressure, Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion, Paste (rheology), Percolation theory, Petroleum, Pharmaceutics, Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Polyelectrolyte, Polymer, Polymer solution, Porosity, Pure and Applied Chemistry, Quasi-solid, Radial immunodiffusion, Rheology, Rubber elasticity, Self-assembly, Sensor, Shear modulus, Silicone, Sintering, Size-exclusion chromatography, Smart material, Soft matter, Sol–gel process, Solubility, Solvent, Specific surface area, Stress (mechanics), Supercritical fluid, Surface tension, Tendon, Thermodynamic free energy, Thermoplastic, Thickening agent, Thiomer, Thixotropy, Thomas Graham (chemist), Thrombus, Tissue engineering, Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, Vegetable oil, Viscosity, Vitreous body, Void (composites), 2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid.