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solvation

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solvation [säl′vā·shən]
(chemistry)
The process of swelling, gelling, or dissolving of a material by a solvent; for resins, the solvent can be a plasticizer.


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When the cavitation is at its best, the cycle of gas to liquid to gas is resonant and acts to remove by solvation all remnants of the material on the screw and hot-runner wall.
1994) parameter set, which was originally optimized for proteins by fitting the solvation free energies of amino acid analogs.
Studies conducted on the water sorption of dental materials indicate that excessive water uptake may cause a decrease in mechanical strength, distortion, and depression of the glass transition temperature [25] due to plasticization, solvation, reversible rupture of weak inter-chain bonds and irreversible disruption of the polymer matrix [26].
 
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