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electroswelling

electroswelling noun: swelling of a material caused by application of an electric field.

Noun

electroswelling

  1. swelling of a material caused by application of an electric field
    • We also demonstrate that the molecular structure of the ions plays an important role in determining the electrostriction and electroswelling of the confined film, hence showing the importance of ion-specific effects in electrotuneable friction..2015, O. Y. Fajardo, Fernando Bresme, Alexei A. Kornyshev, Michael Urbakh, “Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants: how important is the molecular structure of the ions?”, in arXiv

Origin of electroswelling

From electro- + swelling.

Questions about electroswelling

What does electroswelling mean?
Electroswelling means swelling of a material caused by application of an electric field.
What part of speech is electroswelling?
Electroswelling is a noun.

Words near electroswelling in the dictionary

  1. electrosurgeons
  2. electrosurgeries
  3. electrosurgery
  4. electrosurgical
  5. electrosurgically
  6. electroswelling
  7. electroswing
  8. electrosyntheses
  9. electrosynthesis
  10. electrosynthesize
  11. electrosynthesized

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