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hydrophobic

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hydrophobic [¦hī·drə′fō·bik]
(chemistry)
Lacking an affinity for, repelling, or failing to adsorb or absorb water.
(medicine)
Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hydrophobia.
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Their legs are super hydrophobic and each leg can hold about 15 times their weight.
Self-cleaning walls and water-striding robots come closer to reality by Asian News International
of California at Santa Barbara) presents a text intended to aid in the quantitative understanding and prediction of the transport of sediments and hydrophobic contaminants in surface waters.
Sediment and contaminant transport in surface waters by SciTech Book News
INTRODUCTION Hydrophobically modified water-soluble polymers (both synthetic and natural) or amphiphilic polymers have received great attention because of their potential use in various industrial applications such as cosmetics, paints, drilling fluids, and oil recovery and owing to the advantage of both the hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups (1-9).
Amphiphilic derivatives of carboxymethylcellulose: Evidence for ... by Vidal, Rosangela Regia Lima; Balaban, Rosangela; Borsali, Redouane / Polymer Engineering and Science
 
 
 
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