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• wettable — [wet′ə bəl] adj. 1. capable of being wetted 2. Chem. Physics able to be made adhesive or absorptive, as by the addition of a liquid or hydrocarbon …   English World dictionary

• wettable — ˈwed.əbəl, etə adjective : capable of being wetted; specifically : having the ability (as after the addition of a wetting agent) of being wetted by or readily mixing with water or other liquid used of insoluble substances DDT supplied as a… …   Useful english dictionary

• wettable — adjective Date: 1885 capable of being wetted …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• wettable — /wet euh beuhl/, adj. 1. able to be wetted. 2. made soluble or receptive to moisture, as by the addition of a chemical agent. [1880 85; WET + ABLE] * * * …   Universalium

• wettable — wet·ta·ble …   English syllables

• wettable sulfur — noun : finely divided sulfur to which a wetting agent has been added for use in agricultural sprays …   Useful english dictionary

• wp — wettable powder …   Medical dictionary

• wp — • wettable powder …   Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations

• Wetting — is the contact between a liquid and a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together. The amount of wetting depends on the energies (or surface tensions) of the interfaces involved such that the total… …   Wikipedia

• Springtail — Springtails Temporal range: Early Devonian–Recent …   Wikipedia

• Cheerio effect — In fluid mechanics, the cheerio effect is the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another. The comedian and author Rich Hall called this effect cheeriomagnetization , using it as an example of a word that needed to be… …   Wikipedia