Tuesday, July 10, 2012

word of the day: monotectic

The word of the day is monotectic:

The reversible transition, on cooling, of a liquid to a mixture of a second
liquid and a solid.  (IUPAC Compendium on Chemical Terminology)


"An equimolar mixture of dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine and distearoyl phosphatidylcholine, which shows a monotectic behaviour, is hydrolysed at all temperatures."

 - J.A.F. Op den Kamp et al., "Action of pancreatic phospholipase A2 on phosphatidylcholinebilayers in different physical states", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 406:169 (1975).

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