wetting agent

What does wetting agent mean?

wetting agent means "a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved".

What is another word for wetting agent?

Close synonyms include wetter, surfactant, surface-active agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wetting agent a common word?

wetting agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wetting agent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.