diffusion

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What is more, if Fick's second law is used to describe the system, the movement of atoms will be such that the diffusion is against the concentration gradient - making it necessary to assume that the diffusion coefficient is negative in this region.

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  1. noun The process of diffusing or the condition of being diffused.
  2. noun Needless profusion of words; prolixity.
  3. noun Physics The scattering of incident light by reflection from a rough surface.
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  • Their condition improves more rapidly by diffusion, and [Pg 346] their villages are rather asylums than homes. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2), by John West
  • Justin concentrated on diffusion, and soon felt himself dissipating. —  Swell Foop
  • Evidence for a diffusion-controlled mechanism for fluorescence blinking of colloidal quantum dots —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The classical equation that describes microstructural evolution through diffusion is the —  Entertaining Research
  • What is more, if Fick's second law is used to describe the system, the movement of atoms will be such that the diffusion is against the concentration gradient - making it necessary to assume that the diffusion coefficient is negative in this region. —  Entertaining Research
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  1. = French diffusion = Provencal diffusio = Spanish difusion = Portuguese diffuseão = Italian diffusione, from Latin diffusio(n-), from diffundere, past participle diffusus, diffuse: see diffuse, v.
 

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