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Cratic vs Creatic - What's the difference?

cratic | creatic |

As adjectives the difference between cratic and creatic

is that cratic is relating to counterions while creatic is relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food.

cratic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to counterions.
  • * 1962 , , Ionic Processes in Solution :
  • If we go on to consider the reaction in a solution so dilute that the interionic forces make a negligible contribution to the communal term in ?F , we may refer to the cratic term, instead of the communal term;
  • * 1999 , K. Zakrzewska, R. Lavery, "Modelling DNA-protein interactions", in Computational Molecular Biology (edited by J. Leszczynski; ISBN 008052964X):
  • Binding is however favoured by the non-salt dependent free energy, the ion-release cratic free energy and by decreased ion-ion repulsion.
  • * 2012 , Peter L. Privalov, Microcalorimetry of Macromolecules: The Physical Basis of Biological Structures (ISBN 1118337476):
  • In the case of electrostatic entropy this is just what is expected if it represents the cratic entropy of mixing of the couterions released on binding with the ions in the bulk solution: it should be positive and independent of temperature.
  • Relating to political or organisational power.
  • * 1980 , , Rousseau and Weber (ISBN 071000513X):
  • Arthur Stinchcombe, for example, pioneered what we call the cratic approach when he defined legitimacy as a 'power reserve'.
  • * 1987 , The Polish Sociological Bulletin :
  • The second personal factors influencing the phenomenon of the erosion of power is connected with the characteristics of cratic (power) motivation, also called the need for power.
  • * 2004 , (translated by Steven Rendall), Morals and Politics (ISBN 0268030650):
  • Anyone who seeks power is almost necessarily compelled to seek state power as well; to this extent the cratic inevitably refers to the political.

    creatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kreatic

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food.
  • creatic nausea
    (Webster 1913)