diffusion

At room temperature, phonons generally scatter more frequently and quickly lose the coherence needed for wave-based transport, causing heat to spread through ordinary diffusion.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

This architecture also supports molecular diffusion and traps incoming photons, helping the light-driven reactions proceed more effectively.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

"How to respond to the rapid development and diffusion of generative AI is the biggest 360-degree challenge for today’s news leaders and policymakers," Egan wrote.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Howe Institute think tank’s business-cycle council, the recognized arbiter of declaring a recession, said it was premature to describe the current downturn as such because it lacked depth and diffusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

In addition, as we’ve seen in this chapter, local technology depends, for both its origin and its maintenance, not only on local invention but also on the diffusion of technology from elsewhere.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"If countries are found to be significantly and persistently abusing red notices and diffusions, then they should be suspended from the system for a period of time," says Keith.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inmates we found pious, sensible, and excellent persons, who had devoted many years among their heathen neighbors in philanthropic diffusions of the Gospel.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

The author exhibits the result of thoughtful study in his expressed views upon the mooted questions of racial origins and diffusions.

From Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell