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capillary flow

The flow of moisture through a capillary pore system, as in concrete.
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The rest flow before heating, maximal flow in response to heating, and time to maximal flow were assessed from the capillary flow curves recorded [9].
Skin autofluorescence in systemic sclerosis is related to the disease and vascular damage: a cross-sectional analytic study of comparative groups
Capillary flow will be most rapid through sandy soils with large pores and slowest through clayey soils with many fine pores.
Chapter 6 Soil water, temperature, and gas relations
Capillary flow is described by the capillary rise equation, which relates the height to which water will rise above a water table in unsaturated soil to the diameter of pores in the soil environment:
Chapter 8 Water and gas transport
The fluorescein solution was pumped with a peristaltic pump through a capillary flow cell [5].
Quantitating fluorescence intensity from fluorophore: assignment of MESF values
G] capillary flow permeability analyzer is a compact, bench-top instrument that measures through pores in membranes, filters, paper, plastics, ceramics, sintered and woven metals and other porous media.
Xonics automated water capillary flow permeability analyzer: POROMETER [3.sup.G]
Similar to the PMI capillary flow porometer, the PMI damp-on porometer measures the bubble point, the mean flow pore diameter, pore size distribution, gas permeability and envelope surface area but does not require a sample to be cut out from the bulk material.
Clamp-on porometer
We were able to optimize the number of parts in process to fully absorb long capillary flow times, part transport times and extended product heating times.
Q&A with Pierre de Villemejane, President & CEO, Speedline Technologies Inc
Stucco can 'bond' or adhere to the housewrap surface altering its surface energy, thereby allowing housewrap pores to become 'wetted' and subsequently establish capillary flow.
That's a wrap
Smoking narrows blood vessels, decreasing capillary flow to the area.
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Capillary flow can occur in any direction--up, down, or laterally (figure 7-10).
Chapter 7: Soil water
Content, such as bioheat transfer, thermoregulation, freezing, global warming, capillary flow and dispersion are some of the topics not typically included iii the undergraduate-level teaching of transport phenomena.
Biological and Bioenvironmental Heat and Mass Transfer. (Bookshelf)
This process thins the film around the particles and alters the interface between the particles and the polymer matrix, creating portals that allow the capillary flow of gases between the particle and the film and thus increasing the overall permeability of the film.
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