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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)

  1. 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.