Microviscosity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale. countable, uncountable

    "Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility."

Synonyms

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microscopic viscositymicroscopic viscosity

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"Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility."

Etymology

From micro- + viscosity.

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