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capillarity

 [kap″ĭ-lar´ĭ-te]
the action by which the surface of a liquid where it is in contact with a solid, as in a capillary tube, is elevated or depressed.
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cap·il·lar·i·ty

(kap'i-lar'i-tē),
The rise of liquids in narrow tubes or through the pores of a loose material, as a result of capillary action.
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cap·il·lar·i·ty

(kap'i-lar'i-tē)
The rise of liquids in narrow tubes or through the pores of a loose material, as a result of capillary attraction.
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capillarity

the action by which the surface of a liquid (usually water) is elevated when in contact with a solid surface by attraction of molecules between the liquid and solid surfaces. When the liquid is in a narrow container (e.g. a capillary tube) the level of water will rise considerably, but capillarity can also occur in such structures as soils, causing a rise in the water table. Capillarity has been suggested as the explanation of water ascent in XYLEM vessels in plants, but is not considered to exert a significant effect. Compare COHESION/TENSION HYPOTHESIS, ROOT PRESSURE.
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cap·il·lar·i·ty

(kap'i-lar'i-tē)
The rise of liquids in narrow tubes or through the pores of a loose material, as a result of capillary action.
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Hopper, "Coalescence of two viscous cylinders by capillarity: Part I, theory," Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol.
Values for the parameters of the bimodal water retention curves (Eqn 1) estimated for the different samplings dates, soils tillage treatments (conventional tillage, CT; reduced tillage, RT; no tillage, NT) and soil-wetting processes (waterlogging, WP; capillarity rise, CRP), and coefficient of determination ([R.sup.2]) for the best fit between the averaged measured and modelled water retention curves [[theta].sub.sat] and [[theta].sub.res] are the saturated and residual volumetric water content respectively; w is a weighting factor for the subcurves; [[alpha].sub.i] is the scale factor; [n.sub.i] is the pore-size distribution parameter.
As porous material, peat has capillarity to maintain wetness peat at surface using water table underground during prolonged dry period.
One can also verify that the energy loss is dominated by the action of adhesion and capillarity forces, because the larger area between both curves is in the attractive region.
To simplify the above equation, we assume that the nanowire is a rod-like shape, although the cross section of the nanowire is a pentagon, (29) and the part of wet film for the area fraction estimation is perfectly flat and uniform, i.e., far from swollen edges due to the capillarity. In this case, the estimated area fraction becomes a function of the film thickness hw and the mass concentration of Ag NW [c.sub.AgNW].
The second volume addresses the process fundamentals, including capillarity and shape stability analysis; transport processes like diffusion, buoyancy-driven convection, surface-tension, driven convection, and forced convection; segregation phenomena; strategies for the automatic control of crystal growth from melt; defect generation in growing crystals; fundamental and methodical consequences of bulk growth from solutions; crystallization mechanisms of high critical temperature superconductors; the mechanisms of protein crystal growth from gels; and mass crystallization.
Many capillary interstices are also present in the log, allowing the dye solution to permeate easily into the log by capillarity and diffusion.
* Several parameters, such as tensile strength, breaking strength, elasticity, capillarity and memory are used to describe physical characteristic of sutures.
But only online stores, with their capillarity and wide distribution, can guarantee everyone the opportunity to discover and taste the best products from Italy at affordable prices.
The capillarity exercise methodology was investigated by registering temperature changes in hand's fingers before and after the exercise.
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