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| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S. |
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
| coagulate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to cause (a fluid, such as blood) to change into a soft semisolid mass or (of such a fluid) to change into such a mass; clot; curdle |
| 2. | chem to separate or cause to separate into distinct constituent phases |
| —n | |
| 3. | the solid or semisolid substance produced by coagulation |
| [C16: from Latin coāgulāre to make (a liquid) curdle, from coāgulum rennet, from cōgere to drive together] | |
| co'agulable | |
| —adj | |
| coagula'bility | |
| —n | |
| coagu'lation | |
| —n | |
| coagulative | |
| —adj | |
coagulable co·ag·u·la·ble (kō-āg'yə-lə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of being coagulated or clotted.