complexer

A chemical substance that is used for complexing.

Adjective

  1. comparative form of complex: more complex
    • Let us turn to another aspect of Ovid's narration that demands the audience's active participation and that leads to a complexer and richer understanding of discourse and time. - 1999, Stephen M. Wheeler, A Discourse of...

Origin

From complex (adjective) + -er.

Noun

  1. A chemical substance that is used for complexing.
    • any solid urea not converted to adduct sinks to the bottom of the oil phase and may be recycled to the complexer, either as oil slurry or urea solution after extraction with alcohol. - 2018, Recent Developments in...
    • For the combination with the cyanide-free complexer B, thiosulfate was selected. - 2022, Christian N. Madu, Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, page 236:

Origin

From complex (verb) + -er.

Forms

complexers