A gel is a complex solid but fluid substance with liquid-like properties.

Gel may also refer to:

Personal care

• Hair gel, a gel used for setting hair styles which makes it stay still

• Shower gel, a cosmetic body wash

• Personal lubricant used for sexual purposes

Pharmaceutics and physical chemistry

• Gel cap, a gelatinous capsule in which a drug is held

• Aerogel, a gel that has been dehydrated under supercritical conditions such that the liquid has been replaced with gas

• Hydrogel or aquagel, a water-insoluble polymer

• Sol-gel, a colloidal suspension that can be gelled to form a solid

• Xerogel, a dried gel that, when heated, becomes a dense glass

Entertainment

• Color gel, a transparent colored material used to shade stage lighting for plays and film

• Gel, a fictional character in the manga series Hunter × Hunter

• Gel, American hardcore punk band

Other uses

• Gel (dessert), a dessert made with sweetened and flavored gelatin

• Gel conference

• Gel pen

• Gelling (Arunachal Pradesh), location in India

• Georgian lari, by ISO 4217 currency code

• Group Exemption Letter, issued by the United States Internal Revenue Service

• Lichk, Armenia, formerly Gël

• Silica gel

• ut-Ma'in language

See also

• Agar

• Collagen

• Colloid

• Gelatin

• Jelly (disambiguation)