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microcleavage

microcleavage noun: cleavage to form very thin layers.

Noun

microcleavage (countable and uncountable, plural microcleavages)

  1. cleavage to form very thin layers
    • Very recently, a new 2D material phosphorene named after its parent black phosphorous was mechanically exfoliated by scotch tape based microcleavage method from a layered bulk black phosphorus and also a single layer phosphorene was obtained by plasma-assisted fabrication process 9 10 .2015 July 22, M. Umar Farooq, Arqum Hashmi, Jisang Hong, “Anisotropic bias dependent transport property of defective phosphorene layer”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI

Forms of microcleavage

pluralmicrocleavages

Origin of microcleavage

From micro- + cleavage.

Questions about microcleavage

What does microcleavage mean?
Microcleavage means cleavage to form very thin layers.
What part of speech is microcleavage?
Microcleavage is a noun.
What is the plural of microcleavage?
The plural of microcleavage is microcleavages.

Words near microcleavage in the dictionary

  1. microclades
  2. microclamp
  3. microclamps
  4. microclassification
  5. microclassifications
  6. microcleavage
  7. microcleavages
  8. microclimate
  9. microclimates
  10. microclimatic
  11. microclimatical

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