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wettable
[ wet-uh-buhl ]
/ ˈwɛt ə bəl /
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adjective
able to be wetted.
made soluble or receptive to moisture, as by the addition of a chemical agent.
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How to use wettable in a sentence
On July 30 we sprayed with lindane (25% wettable powder) with one pound to one hundred gallons of water.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting|Northern Nut Growers AssociationThe (wettable) velvet lips of the mask made even her natural voice sound different.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths|Fritz Reuter Leiber