lyotropic

Meaning

Adjective

describing a liquid crystal that exhibits phase transitions as a function of concentration

Origin

lyo- + -tropic, c. 1910, presumably borrowed from German, or by analogy with earlier lyo- terms such as lyophilic or lyophilization (1894). From Ancient Greek λύω + τροπικός, from τροπή.

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