| Definitions | | labile |
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adjective
- Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
- Apt or likely to change.
- (context, chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
- Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
- Water ligands typically bind metals in a fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
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