preequilibrium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Before equilibrium
noun
The initial stage of a chemical reaction when the different chemicals are beginning to interact but have not yet reached equilibrium.
Example Sentences
- "The decomposition of peroxydisulfate to sulfate radical ions was taken to be a rapid preequilibrium, and was postulated to be followed by the rate-determining reaction of a sulfate radical ion with MG to produce a radical intermediate, I."
- "In cases involving multiple preequilibria (e.g., multiple substrates, induced conformational change), K.,, reveals little about each of these steps individually. In the case of allosteric interaction, characteristic kinetic behavior is..."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English equilibrium English preequilibrium From pre- + equilibrium.
Inflected Forms
pre-equilibrium (alternative)
preequilibria (plural)