capillary repulsion — capillary repulsion, the force that causes a liquid to be depressed when in contact with the sides of a narrow tube, as is mercury in a glass tube … Useful english dictionary
Capillary — Cap il*la*ry (k[a^]p [i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^] or k[.a]*p[i^]l l[.a]*r[y^]; 277), a. [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. {Capillaire}.] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Capillary attraction — Capillary Cap il*la*ry (k[a^]p [i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^] or k[.a]*p[i^]l l[.a]*r[y^]; 277), a. [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. {Capillaire}.] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
capillary — /kap euh ler ee/, adj., n., pl. capillaries. adj. 1. pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore. 2. resembling a strand of hair; hairlike. 3. Physics. a. pertaining to capillarity. b. of or pertaining to the apparent attraction … Universalium
capillary — cap•il•lar•y [[t]ˈkæp əˌlɛr i[/t]] n. pl. lar•ies, adj. 1) anat. one of the minute blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins 2) phs Also called cap′illary tube . a tube with a small bore 3) anat.… … From formal English to slang
Capillarity tubes — Capillary Cap il*la*ry (k[a^]p [i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^] or k[.a]*p[i^]l l[.a]*r[y^]; 277), a. [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. {Capillaire}.] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Protection of exposed concrete — is necessary to prolong its service life. A 120 year design life for concrete infrastructure has become increasingly common. Without early preventive maintenance this design life target may be optimistic. The design service life of reinforced… … Wikipedia
Electrodipping force — The electrodipping force is a force proposed to explain the observed attraction that arises among small colloidal particles attached to an interface between immiscible liquids. The particles are held there by surface tension. Normally the surface … Wikipedia
Nanopolymers — The word nano is derived from the Greek word for “dwarf”. It is the prefix for units of 10 9. In a nutshell, nanoscience is the study of the extremely tiny. Nanoscience is concerned with the study of the unique properties of matter at its nano… … Wikipedia
Van der Waals force — In physical chemistry, the van der Waals force (or van der Waals interaction), named after Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, is the sum of the attractive or repulsive forces between molecules (or between parts of the same molecule)… … Wikipedia
