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Coagulation   Listen
noun
Coagulation  n.  
1.
The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.
2.
The substance or body formed by coagulation.






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"Coagulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rennet is the name given to a watery infusion of the coats of the stomach of a sucking calf. Its remarkable efficacy in promoting coagulation is supposed to depend on the gastric juice with which it ...
— Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 • Jane Marcet



Words linked to "Coagulation" :   clotting, blood clotting, activity, blood coagulation, curdling, natural process, thermocoagulation



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