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swell +‎ -ability

Noun

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swellability (countable and uncountable, plural swellabilities)

  1. Quality or degree of being swellable.
    • 2015 August 25, “Experimental Investigation of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Silica Nanoparticle-Reinforced Poly(acrylamide) Nanocomposite Hydrogels”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      We also observed significantly lower swellability for hydrogel nanocomposites relative to neat hydrogels, consistent with previous work suggesting that nanoparticles can mediate pseudo crosslinking within polymer networks.