molecularize

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English

Etymology

From molecular +‎ -ize.

Verb

molecularize (third-person singular simple present molecularizes, present participle molecularizing, simple past and past participle molecularized)

  1. (transitive) To make molecular; to convert to the level of molecules.
    • 1907, Frederic B. Wright, A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products:
      Plates simply perforated and uncapped give excellent results for they molecularize the vapor ascending through the liquid contained on the plates, but they require a constant pressure of vapor, and any variations of pressure tends to discharge them.