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microcleavages

microcleavages is the plural of microcleavage.

Meaning of microcleavage

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

Questions about microcleavages

What is microcleavages the plural of?
Microcleavages is the plural of microcleavage.

Words near microcleavages in the dictionary

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

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