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wet
1. rainy, foggy, misty, or humid
2. employing a liquid, usually water
3. Chiefly US and Canadian characterized by or permitting the free sale of alcoholic beverages
4. damp or rainy weather
5. Brit informal a Conservative politician who is considered not to be a hard-liner
6. Chiefly US and Canadian a person who advocates free sale of alcoholic beverages
7. the wet Austral (in northern and central Australia) the rainy season

wet [wet]
(physics)
A liquid is said to wet a solid if the contact angle between the solid and the liquid, measured through the liquid, lies between 0 and 90°, and not to wet the solid if the contact angle lies between 90 and 180°.


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In this study, in case of application of the PCMs to textiles, in order to overcome these problems, waterproof and breathable finished nylon fabrics were prepared directly using two different coating methods without a binder, namely, wet coating using a wettable and micro-porous PU resin with the incorporation of PCMMcs into the fabrics, and dry coating using a hydrophilic and non-porous PU resin.
This process will use sodium naphthalene (or some derivative), which will strip a fluorine atom from the drilled surface in order to make the PTFE substrate wettable and accepting of the copper plating.
Our lower basis weight, wettable SMS products have been very well received.
 
 
 
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