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rheology
noun
The branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter.
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This reduces a liquid's reluctance to flow, or viscosity, by forcing the layers within it to separate, suddenly making it runny.If you want to make the perfect ketchup, therefore, rheology is important.
IF YOU have ever given a bottle of tomato ketchup a good shake to make it pour more easily, then you have experimented with rheology.
What Dr Rees, Dr Zimmerman and Dr Bandulasena (or, rather, their computers) do is to take the equations that describe rheology, feed in the observed behaviour and then crunch through the possibilities to determine what combination of rheological properties would actually result in that behaviour.
These variables are responsible for changing the rheology of rocks from rigid and brittle at or near the Earth's surface to weak and ductile at great depths.
The rheological properties of coatings (that is, their ability to flow) are of prime importance in their preparation, storage, and application, and in fluids such as coatings the key factor in rheology is the viscosity of the fluid.
Food technologists are now conducting basic research in rheology, a branch of physics that examines the flow and deformation of materials.
Texture is big business and the science of food structure even has its own ology: food rheology.
After relocating to Germany, Ernst continued his research on blood rheology before resuming his work in rehabilitation medicine, eventually arriving at one of the most prestigious institutions in Europe, the University of Vienna.
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Studies of this sort add immeasurably to the understanding of crustal rheologies and the response of rocks to large-scale orogenic events.
The New Yorker, November 23 , 1935P. 82 REPORTER AT LARGE about a session of the Society of Rheology.
By St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, November 23 , 1935P. 82 REPORTER AT LARGE about a session of the Society of Rheology.
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