polarizable
Adjective
Meaning
Susceptible of polarization.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
In general, sulfur is very nucleophilic because of its large size, which makes it readily polarizable, and its lone pairs of electrons are readily accessible.
In fact, "Casimir's original goal was to compute the van der Waals force between polarizable molecules " of the conductive plates.
Polar protic and polar aprotic Solvents with a dielectric constant (more accurately, relative static permittivity ) greater than 15 (i.e. polar or polarizable) can be further divided into protic and aprotic.
'Soft' applies to species that are large, have low charge states and are strongly polarizable.
They may also look like squares or rods which are polarizable.