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microviscosity

microviscosity noun: the friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.

Noun

microviscosity (countable and uncountable, plural microviscosities)

  1. The friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.
    • Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility.2008, Goins, A.B., H. Sanabria, M. N. Waxham, "Macromolecular crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity", Biophysics Journal 95:5362-5373
    • The friction experienced by a single particle can be thought of as a microscopic viscosity (microviscosity) and should not necessarily agree with the bulk viscosity since it is a measure of the probe's local friction whereas bulk viscosity analogously would be the measure of an infinitely large...2008, Aron Benjamin Goins, Crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity for polymer cytosolic mimicry
    Synonyms:
    microscopic viscosity

Synonyms of microviscosity

  • microscopic viscosity

Forms of microviscosity

pluralmicroviscosities

Origin of microviscosity

From micro- + viscosity.

Questions about microviscosity

What does microviscosity mean?
Microviscosity means the friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.
What part of speech is microviscosity?
Microviscosity is a noun.
What is the plural of microviscosity?
The plural of microviscosity is microviscosities.

Words near microviscosity in the dictionary

  1. microviscoamylograph
  2. microviscoamylographs
  3. microviscometer
  4. microviscometers
  5. microviscosities
  6. microviscosity
  7. microviscous
  8. microvisualization
  9. microvisualizations
  10. microvitellogenin
  11. microvitellogenins

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