coagulate
to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle; congeal: Let the pudding stand two hours until it coagulates.
Biology. (of blood) to form a clot.
Physical Chemistry. (of colloidal particles) to flocculate or cause to flocculate by adding an electrolyte to an electrostatic colloid.
Obsolete. coagulated.
Origin of coagulate
1Other words for coagulate
Other words from coagulate
- co·ag·u·la·tion, noun
- co·ag·u·la·to·ry [koh-ag-yuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /koʊˈæg yə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, co·ag·u·la·tive [koh-ag-yuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv], /koʊˈæg yəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv/, adjective
- an·ti·co·ag·u·lat·ing, adjective
- an·ti·co·ag·u·la·tion, noun, adjective
- non·co·ag·u·lat·ing, adjective
- non·co·ag·u·la·tion, noun
- non·co·ag·u·la·tive, adjective
- re·co·ag·u·late, verb, re·co·ag·u·lat·ed, re·co·ag·u·lat·ing.
- re·co·ag·u·la·tion, noun
- un·co·ag·u·lat·ed, adjective
- un·co·ag·u·lat·ing, adjective
- un·co·ag·u·la·tive, adjective
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How to use coagulate in a sentence
The OrganEx perfusate fluid circumvents this because it cannot coagulate.
Researchers repaired cells in damaged pig organs an hour after the animal’s death | Rhiannon Williams | August 3, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewThe acidity in the lemon coagulates the fats in the cream and thickens it, which is the same method as making a sour cream or mascarpone, but you don’t need to strain.
Make a Delicious Summery Spin on Custard This Weekend | Anna Archibald | July 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastThe next morning it’s heated, enzymes are added, and the milk is left to coagulate.
How Camembert Cheese Is Made at Normandy’s La Ferme Du Champ Secret | Eater Video | June 16, 2021 | EaterWhen enzymes are added to heated milk, they cause existing caseins to coagulate and separate from the liquid substance or whey.
Best protein powder: Better nutrition in a bottle | Carsen Joenk | January 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt seemed that the water molecules must have been coagulating in some way to produce “polywater.”
As rennets differ much in quality, enough should be used to coagulate the milk sufficiently in about forty minutes.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenTo a certain extent, the effect of the acid may be to coagulate and precipitate the colloidal sulphide.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. | Julius StieglitzIt is also a well-established fact, that the blood does not coagulate after death from this cause.
If the stock is not reduced and more jelly is desired, unflavored gelatine may be dissolved and added to coagulate the liquid.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesPeople are people, and classes are merely clubs where more or less congenial neighbors coagulate, more or less haphazard.
What Will People Say? | Rupert Hughes
British Dictionary definitions for coagulate
to cause (a fluid, such as blood) to change into a soft semisolid mass or (of such a fluid) to change into such a mass; clot; curdle
chem to separate or cause to separate into distinct constituent phases
the solid or semisolid substance produced by coagulation
Origin of coagulate
1Derived forms of coagulate
- coagulable, adjective
- coagulability, noun
- coagulation, noun
- coagulative (kəʊˈæɡjʊlətɪv), adjective
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