The phrase "a kind of friction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific type or instance of friction, whether physical, emotional, or metaphorical.
Example: "In their relationship, there was a kind of friction that made communication difficult."
Alternatives: "a type of friction" or "a form of friction".
It has also nudged painting and sculpture into close contact with furnishings, jewelry and decorative objects, producing a kind of friction that rarely occurs in museums.
I like the kind of dialogue between people who have a mutual goal but very disparate appetites and needs, so that there's always a kind of friction that runs throughout the film.
In its submission to the conditions of popular cinema, "Everest" builds up a kind of friction between the facts and its own need to mold them into a story.
"As an artist I think it is interesting to create work that embodies a kind of friction, an object that is at once a toy and a weapon".
The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war". As a strategic leader, you need to make several decisions as you plan ahead.
"As an artist I think it is interesting to create work that embodies a kind of friction, an object that is at once a toy and a weapon". For his Kalashnipuzzle, van Triest had to have the weapon delivered to a friend in Germany, where it's legal to possess such weapons under the condition that they're rendered unusable.
The trouble is that any kind of friction in a mobile payments system is annoying and will lead many to conclude they are better off sticking with cash.
Yet, he sees Bitcoin as a well-crafted money protocol to remove any kind of friction.
"I suspect," he wrote, "I only preserve my revolutionary feeling by a kind of perpetual friction between my concrete set habits of mind and my abstract dislike of the present state of things".
Klinkenborg may not be as deeply involved in agriculture as his Iowa father and grandfather, but he has a superb instinct for how, over the years, a farmer's personality and the character of his land shape each other through a kind of mutual friction.
Small magnetic fields generate a kind of turbulent friction that robs the gas and dust of some of its angular momentum, facilitating its infall.
