peptize
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- Hyphenation: pep‧tize
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peptize (third-person singular simple present peptizes, present participle peptizing, simple past and past participle peptized)
- To disperse in a medium so as to form a colloidal solution.
- Alphaltenes have a tendency to aggregate and flocculate, but resins contained in the crude oil peptize them and keep them in solution.