Dictionary - Viscosity: Oceanography Dictionary - Viscosity
  Definition and meaning of viscosity:   viscosity - a measure of resistance to flow in a liquid (Source: US National...   » Read the article

Article - Oceanography Sitemap I - V
This is a sitemap for Oceanography - V . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ammonia: Encyclopedia - Ammonia
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. At standard temperature and pressure ammonia is a gas. It is toxic a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amorphous Solid: Encyclopedia - Amorphous Solid
An amorphous solid is a solid in which there is no long-range order of the positions of the atoms. (Solids in which there is long-range a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerodynamics: Encyclopedia - Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with the study of gas flows, first analysed by George Cayley in the 1800s. The solut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archimedes Number: Encyclopedia - Archimedes Number
An Archimedes number (not to be confused with Archimedes constant, π), named after the ancient Greek scientist Archimedes, to determine ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Turbulence: Encyclopedia - Turbulence
In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by semi-random, stochastic property changes. This includes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alkane: Encyclopedia - Alkane
An alkane in organic chemistry is a saturated hydrocarbon without cycles, that is, an acyclic hydrocarbon in which the molecule has the m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiesel: Encyclopedia - Biodiesel
Biodiesel is fuel made from renewable resources such as vegetable oils or animal fats. It is biodegradable and non-toxic, and has signifi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bose-einstein Condensate: Encyclopedia - Bose-einstein Condensate
A Bose-Einstein condensate is a phase of matter formed by bosons cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero. The first such conden...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry
The technology of atmospheric reentry was a consequence of the Cold War. Ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons were legacies of World Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bernoulli's Principle: Encyclopedia - Bernoulli's Principle
Bernoulli's principle states that in fluid flow, an increase in velocity occurs simultaneously with decrease in pressure. This principle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Areas Of Mathematics: Encyclopedia - Areas Of Mathematics
The aim of this page is to list all areas of modern mathematics, with a brief explanation about their scope and links to other parts of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vegetable Oil: Encyclopedia - Vegetable Oil
Vegetable oil or vegoil is fat extracted from plant sources, known as oil plants. Although in principle other parts of plants may yield o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Watercolor Painting: Encyclopedia - Watercolor Painting
Watercolor is a painting technique using paint made of colorants suspended or dissolved in water. Although the grounds used in watercolor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Lubricant: Encyclopedia - Personal Lubricant
Personal lubricants are specialized lubricants used to reduce friction with the genitals or anus. Personal lubricants were originally der...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waste Vegetable Oil: Encyclopedia - Waste Vegetable Oil
Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) is vegetable oil that has become unfit for food preparation. The common causes of this degradation are: Chemic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vx: Encyclopedia - Vx
The VX nerve agent is the most well-known of the V-series of nerve agents. Its chemical name is O-Ethyl-S-[2(diisopropylamino)ethyl] meth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wax: Encyclopedia - Wax
Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bees (beeswax) and used by them in constructing their honeycombs. In mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carboxymethyl Cellulose: Encyclopedia - Carboxymethyl Cellulose
Carboxymethyl cellulose, or CMC, is a cellulose derivative with carboxymethyl groups (-CH2-COOH) bound to some of the hydroxyl groups of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Petroleum: Encyclopedia - Petroleum
Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and oleum – oil), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood: Encyclopedia - Blood
Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consistency: Encyclopedia - Consistency
Consistency has three technical meanings: In mathematics and logic, as well as in theoretical physics, it refers to the proposition that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lava: Encyclopedia - Lava
Lava is molten rock that a volcano expels during an eruption. Lava, when first exuded from a volcanic vent, is a liquid at very high temp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Post-glacial Rebound: Encyclopedia - Post-glacial Rebound
Post-glacial rebound (sometimes called continental rebound, isostatic rebound or isostatic adjustment) is the rise of land masses that we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sulfur: Encyclopedia - Sulfur
Sulfur (or sulphur; see spelling below) is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vla: Encyclopedia - Vla
Vla is a typical Dutch dairy product, made of fresh milk. It has the viscosity of yoghurt, but is much sweeter and is available in severa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chewing Gum: Encyclopedia - Chewing Gum
Chewing gum is a type of confectionery which is designed to be chewed, not swallowed. Traditionally, it was made of chicle, a natural lat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chainsaw: Encyclopedia - Chainsaw
A chainsaw (also spelled chain saw) is a portable mechanical, motorized saw. It is most commonly used in forestry activities such as logg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carrageenan: Encyclopedia - Carrageenan
Carrageenan (/IPA: kærˌəgiːˈnən/) is a family of linear sulphated polysaccharides extracted from red seaweeds. It is named after Ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vitreous Humour: Encyclopedia - Vitreous Humour
Vitreous humour is the clear aqueous solution that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the vertebrate eyeball. The solutio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Painting: Encyclopedia - Painting
Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fluid: Encyclopedia - Fluid
A subset of the phases of matter, fluids include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids. Fluids share the properties...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergence: Encyclopedia - Emergence
Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules. This can be a dynamic process (occurring over time), such as th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas: Encyclopedia - Gas
A gas is one of the four main phases of matter (after solid and liquid, and followed by plasma), that subsequently appear as a solid mate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coandă Effect: Encyclopedia - Coandă Effect
The Coandă effect (IPA: ['kwandə]) is the tendency of a stream of fluid to stay attached to a convex surface, rather than follow a stra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viscometer: Encyclopedia - Viscometer
A viscometer (also called viscosimeter) is an instrument used to measure the viscosity and flow parameters of a fluid. The classical meth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luminiferous Aether: Encyclopedia Ii - Luminiferous Aether - The History Of Light And Aether
See also timeline of luminiferous aether. Isaac Newton had assumed that light was made up of numerous small particles, in order to explai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Terminology Definitions And Jargon
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmosp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drosophila Melanogaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Drosophila Melanogaster - Vision In Drosophila
The compound eye of the fruit fly contains 800 unit eyes or ommatidia, and are one of the most advanced among insects. Each ommatidium co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vegetable Oil: Encyclopedia Ii - Vegetable Oil - Sources
Common sources of vegetable oil include: Oilseeds: cashew castor bean - castor oil flax seed - linseed oil grape seed - grape seed oil h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Petroleum: Encyclopedia Ii - Petroleum - Origin
Petroleum - Biogenic theory. Most geologists view crude oil, like coal and natural gas, as the product of compression and heating of an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waste Vegetable Oil: Encyclopedia Ii - Waste Vegetable Oil - Use In Diesel Engines
One of the first demonstration diesel engines ran on peanut oil. However, modern diesel engines are designed to run on petrodiesel. They ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epoxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Epoxy - Industry
Today the epoxy industry amounts to more than US$5 billion in North America and about US$15 billion world-wide. It is made up of approxim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress Physics - Stress In One-dimensional Bodies
The idea of stress originates in two simple, but important, observations of the loading (in tension) of a one-dimensional body, for examp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lift Force: Encyclopedia Ii - Lift Force - Bernoulli's Principle
Bernoulli's principle states that in fluid flow, an increase in velocity occurs simultaneously with decrease in pressure. It is named for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Motor Oil: Encyclopedia Ii - Motor Oil - Grades Of Motor Oil
Motor oil - Single-grade motor oil. The Society of Automotive Engineers, usually abbreviated as SAE, has established a numerical code s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Superfluid: Encyclopedia Ii - Superfluid - Background
The superfluid transition is displayed by quantum liquids below a characteristic transition temperature. The phase change to the superflu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atmospheric Reentry: Encyclopedia Ii - Atmospheric Reentry - Terminology Definitions And Jargon
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmosp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maxwell Material: Encyclopedia Ii - Maxwell Material - Definition
The Maxwell model can be represented by a purely viscous damper and a purely elastic spring connected consecutively, as shown in the diag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Active Fuel Management: Encyclopedia Ii - Active Fuel Management - Background
High power multi-cylinder gasoline engines are typically necessary to satisfy driver demands for quick acceleration and/or heavy towing c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dielectric Spectroscopy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dielectric Spectroscopy - Dielectric Mechanisms
There are a number of different dielectric mechanisms, connected to the way a studied medium reacts to the applied field (see the figure ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epoxy: Encyclopedia Ii - Epoxy - Industry
Today the epoxy industry amounts to more than US$5 billion in North America and about US$15 billion world-wide. It is made up of approxim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vx: Encyclopedia Ii - Vx - History
A chemist by the name of Ranajit Ghosh discovered the V-series nerve agents at the Government research establishment at Porton Down, Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fluid Bearing: Encyclopedia Ii - Fluid Bearing - Some Fluid Bearings
Fluid bearing - Foil bearings. Foil bearings are a type of hydrodynamic bearing that was introduced in turbine applications in the 1960...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diesel Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Diesel Engine - Advantages And Disadvantages Versus Spark-ignition Engines
Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline/petrol engines of the same power (a common margin is 40% more miles per gallon for an eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diethyl Ether Peroxide: Encyclopedia Ii - Diethyl Ether Peroxide - Diethyl Ether Peroxide
Diethyl ether peroxide, also known as ethylidene peroxide, (-CH(CH3)OO-)n is a polymerization product of diethyl ether hydroperoxide. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dilatant: Encyclopedia Ii - Dilatant - Industrial Uses
Dilatant materials have certain industrial uses due to their shear thickening behavior. For example, some all wheel drive systems use a t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thermoplastic: Encyclopedia Ii - Thermoplastic - Temperature Dependence
Thermoplastics are elastic and flexible above their glass transition temperature Tg, specific for each one. This is the midpoint of a tem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temperature Dependence Of Liquid Viscosity: Encyclopedia Ii - Temperature Dependence Of Liquid Viscosity - Arrhenius Model
The model is based on the assumption that the fluid flow obeys the Arrhenius equation for molecular kinetics: where T is temperature, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drilling Mud: Encyclopedia Ii - Drilling Mud - Composition Of Drilling Mud
Drilling mud may consist of bentonite clay with additives such as barium sulfate or hematite. Various thickeners are used to influence th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diesel Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Diesel Engine - Advantages And Disadvantages Versus Spark-ignition Engines
Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline/petrol engines of the same power (a common margin is 40% more miles per gallon for an eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dimensionless Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Dimensionless Number - Buckingham π-theorem
According to the Buckingham π-theorem of dimensional analysis, the functional dependence between a certain number (e.g., n) of variables...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Instrumentation: Encyclopedia Ii - Instrumentation - Measurement
Instruments are devices which are used to measure attributes of physical systems. The variable measured can include practically any measu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quark-gluon Plasma: Encyclopedia Ii - Quark-gluon Plasma - General Introduction
The QGP contains quarks and gluons, just as normal (hadronic) matter does. The difference between these two phases of QCD is the followin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress Physics - Stress In One-dimensional Bodies
The idea of stress originates in two simple, but important, observations of the loading (in tension) of a one-dimensional body, for examp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Green-kubo Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Green-kubo Relations - Thermal And Mechanical Transport Processes
Thermodynamic systems may be prevented from relaxing to equilibrium because of the application of a mechanical field (e.g. electric or ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydraulic Conductivity: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydraulic Conductivity - Relative Properties
Because of their high porosity and permeability, sand and gravel aquifers have higher hydraulic conductivity than clay or unfractured gra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shoe Polish: Encyclopedia Ii - Shoe Polish - History
Shoe polish - Before the 20th century. Since medieval times, dubbin, a waxy product, was used to soften and waterproof leather; however...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geology Of Venus: Encyclopedia Ii - Geology Of Venus - Knowledge Of The Surface Of Venus Before Magellan
Main article: Exploration of Venus After the Moon, Venus was the second object in the solar system to be explored by radar from the Earth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrocephalus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrocephalus - Causes
Hydrocephalus is caused by impaired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production, flow or resorption. The most common cause of hydrocephalus is a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Gabriel Stokes: Encyclopedia Ii - George Gabriel Stokes - Contributions To Science
In content his work is distinguished by a certain definiteness and finality, and even of problems which, when he attacked them, were scar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calixarene: Encyclopedia Ii - Calixarene - History
Adolf von Baeyer pioneered the chemistry of calixarenes although he was unable to determine its structure and did not realise its potenti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ballistic Gelatin: Encyclopedia Ii - Ballistic Gelatin - Preparation
Ballistic gelatin is prepared by dissolving 1 part gelatin into 9 parts of warm water (by mass), mixing the water while pouring in the po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reynolds Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Reynolds Number - The Similarity Of Flows
In order for two flows to be similar they must have the same geometry and equal Reynolds numbers. When comparing fluid behaviour at homol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heating Oil: Encyclopedia Ii - Heating Oil - Heating Oil Trade
Heating oil accounts for about 25% of the yield of a barrel of crude oil, the second largest "cut" after gasoline (petrol). The heating o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geology Of The Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Geology Of The Moon - Lunar Landscape
The lunar landscape is characterized by impact craters, their ejecta, a few volcanoes, hills, lava flows and depressions filled by magma....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burgers' Equation: Encyclopedia Ii - Burgers' Equation - Solution
The inviscid Burgers' equation is a first order partial differential equation. Its solution can be constructed by the method of character...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helium: Encyclopedia Ii - Helium - Notable Characteristics
Helium - Gas and plasma phases. Helium is a colorless, odorless, and non-toxic gas. It is the least reactive member of group 18 (the no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Food Additive: Encyclopedia Ii - Food Additive - Numbering
To regulate these additives, and inform consumers, each additive is assigned a unique number. Initially these were the "E numbers" used i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fluid Dynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - Fluid Dynamics - Equations Of Fluid Dynamics
The foundational axioms of fluid dynamics are the conservation laws, specifically, conservation of mass, conservation of momentum (also k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tap Valve: Encyclopedia Ii - Tap Valve - Physics Of Taps
Most water and gas taps have adjustable flow. Turning the knob or working the lever sets the flow rate by adjusting the size of an openin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Feynman: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Feynman - Biography
Feynman was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York; his parents were Jewish, although they did not practice Judaism as a religion. The yo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro-encapsulation: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro-encapsulation - Techniques To Manufacture Microcapsules
Micro-encapsulation - Physical Methods. The pan coating process, widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, is among the oldest indus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heat Conduction: Encyclopedia Ii - Heat Conduction - Conductance
Writing Fourier's law can also be stated as: where U is the conductance. The reciprocal of conductance is resistance, equal to: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kirkuk: Encyclopedia Ii - Kirkuk - Demographics
Major historic ethnic groups of Kirkuk are Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs, Assyrians and Chaldeans. The city of Kirkuk was long known as a city wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leonhard Euler: Encyclopedia Ii - Leonhard Euler - Biography
Leonhard Euler was born near Basel, Switzerland, the son of Paul Euler, a Lutheran minister. Although in his childhood he exhibited great...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gum Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Gum Arabic - Terrorist Rumors
Oddly, the connection between Sudan and Osama bin Laden brought the otherwise undistinguished gum to public consciousness in 2001, as an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roche Limit: Encyclopedia Ii - Roche Limit - Determining The Roche Limit
The Roche limit depends on the rigidity of the satellite. At one extreme, a rigid satellite will maintain its shape until tidal forces br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogeology: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogeology - Calculation Of Groundwater Flow
To use the groundwater flow equation to estimate the distribution of hydraulic heads, or the direction and rate of groundwater flow, this...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sol Gel: Encyclopedia Ii - Sol Gel - The Sol-gel Process
The sol-gel process is a process for making glass/ceramic materials. The sol-gel process involves the transition of a system from a liqui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fluctuation Theorem: Encyclopedia Ii - Fluctuation Theorem - Statement Of The Fluctuation Theorem Roughly
This theorem (FT) gives a mathematical expression for the probability ratio that time-averaged irreversible entropy production[1], takes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fiberglass: Encyclopedia Ii - Fiberglass - Manufacturing Processes
There are two main types of glass fiber manufacture and two main types of glass fiber product. First, fiber is made either from a direct ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diesel Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Diesel Engine - Advantages And Disadvantages Versus Spark-ignition Engines
Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline/petrol engines of the same power (a common margin is 40% more miles per gallon for an eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Igneous Rock: Encyclopedia Ii - Igneous Rock - Magma Origination
The Earth's crust is about 35 kilometers thick under the continents, but averages only some 7-10 kilometers beneath the oceans. The conti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Blood Cell: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Blood Cell - Human Erythrocytes
The diameter of a typical human erythrocyte disk is 6–8 µm; they are thus much smaller than most other human cells. A typical erythroc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Higher Alkanes: Encyclopedia Ii - Higher Alkanes - Uses
Alkanes from nonane to, for instance, hexadecane (an alkane with sixteen carbon atoms) are liquids of higher viscosity, less and less sui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Areas Of Mathematics: Encyclopedia Ii - Areas Of Mathematics - Algebra
The study of structure starting with numbers, first the familiar natural numbers and integers and their arithmetical operations, which ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ultramafic To Mafic Layered Intrusions: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultramafic To Mafic Layered Intrusions - Intrusive Mechanisms
It is difficult to precisely determine what causes large ultramaficmafic intrusives to be emplaced within the crust, but there are two ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polyelectrolyte: Encyclopedia Ii - Polyelectrolyte - Polyelectrolyte Charge
Acids are classified as either weak or strong (and bases similarly may be either weak or strong). Similarly, polyelectrolytes can be divi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amorphous Solid: Encyclopedia Ii - Amorphous Solid - Glasses
In common parlance, the term glass refers to amorphous oxides, and especially silicates (compounds based on silicon and oxygen). To avoid...   » Read the article