amorphous

Preposition: in

• nature: The application of MQMAS to systems which are amorphous in nature has aroused much interest.

Modifies a noun

• hydrogels: Some amorphous hydrogels also contain other ingredients, making them more viscous.
• silicon: Behind the Solo is an amorphous silicon solar panel.
• hydrogel: Finally, there is much debate among practitioners, as regards which secondary dressing should be used with an amorphous hydrogel.
• blob: A large amorphous blob of white light called Rover.
• silica: Silica Gel is a porous, granular, chemically inert amorphous silica with a high absorbent capacity.
• polymer: A rubber is a fully amorphous, lightly cross-linked polymer, above T g.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The market can then be treated as a concretization of the rather amorphous village structure.
• so: Not since the early Middle Ages has the Catholic Church seemed so amorphous, formless and anomic.
• very: The northern part of the anomaly is very amorphous at this point ( Figure 3 ).
• somewhat: As we know from modern material, silk is mainly crystalline, albeit in a somewhat amorphous state.
• largely: Such polymers are rubbers ( so long as they are largely amorphous ) at room temperature.
• extremely: After February 1917 they were extremely amorphous, to the point of having a large and influential petty-bourgeois component within them.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Sit forward and sit back models of media consumption are now outdated and everything is becoming more amorphous.
• appear: The center of the particle appears amorphous in negatively stained EM preps, the nucleocapsid being in a loosely wound rather disordered state.