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What is a micelle?

What is a micelle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) a colloidal aggregate, in a simple geometric form, of a specific number of amphipathic molecules which forms at a well-defined concentration, called the critical micelle concentration
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The diameter of each micelle is roughly twice the length of the extended fatty acid.
The combination of the tightly bound micelle nanostructures and the microscale globules is what gives the silk its strength.
Solutes with low water solubility will favour partition into the micelle and will be slow to elute from the CE column.
The water also determines the structure of certain constituents in the micelle.
A unimolecular polymeric micelle comprising an ionizable inner core and a hydrophilic outer shell.
The monoglycerides that result from these splitting processes combine into a complex called a micelle.

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