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thermocapillarity

thermocapillarity noun: the condition of being thermocapillary.

Noun

thermocapillarity (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being thermocapillary
    • If the destabilizing effect of thermocapillarity overcomes the stabilizing effect of surface tension and gravity, the liquid film ruptures in finite time, through the formation of primary and secondary thermocapillary finger structures. The long-wave evolution dynamics are compared for two...2016, Aneet Dharmavaram Narendranath, “Dynamics of thin liquid films on a porous substrate in zero gravity”, in arXiv

Origin of thermocapillarity

From thermo- + capillarity.

Questions about thermocapillarity

What does thermocapillarity mean?
Thermocapillarity means the condition of being thermocapillary.
What part of speech is thermocapillarity?
Thermocapillarity is a noun.

Words near thermocapillarity in the dictionary

  1. thermobattery
  2. thermobox
  3. thermoboxes
  4. thermocamera
  5. thermocameras
  6. thermocapillarity
  7. thermocapillary
  8. thermocatalytic
  9. thermocatheter
  10. thermocatheters
  11. thermocautery

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