Sentence examples for by diffusion rather than from inspiring English sources

Diffusive ventilation is simply a form of continuous gas exchange that occurs by diffusion rather than physically taking in the oxygen.

A region of fluid near a surface where transport of dissolved compounds is dominated by diffusion rather than advection by flow.

Phosphorus is taken up in the inorganic form by roots mainly by diffusion rather than mass flow (Oliveira et al. 2010) and uptake of these ions is accomplished through active absorption via Pi transporters belonging to the phosphate transporter (PT) family (Jia et al. 2011; Liu et al. 2011).

This suggests that clearance is limited by diffusion rather than by the pump rate.

The pNPP hydrolysis activity of WT AP is limited by diffusion rather than the chemical step.

By analogy with peripheral tissues (section 2.3), the expectation is that movements of water and solutes in brain ISF will be primarily by diffusion rather than convection.

In summary, our studies indicate that ciliary membrane proteins such as SSTR3 and Smo explore the ciliary space by passive diffusion rather than only by motor-driven, directional transport.

The results tabulated in Table 3 showed that the biosoprtion of Cu and Zn ions in the liquid phase was mainly dominated by film diffusion rather than intra-particle diffusion.

We outline herein a method (Multi-locus assortment; MLA) to spread transgenes into vector populations by gene "diffusion" rather than gene drive.

At these extremely short lengths, Dr. Orbach said, heat may be carried by a particle-like diffusion rather than wave motion.

The temperature profiles decrease as the Prandtl number increases since, for high Prandtl numbers, the flow is governed by momentum and viscous diffusion rather than thermal diffusion.