diffusion
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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
The diffusion index measuring sentiment among large manufacturers is expected to edge down to plus 16 from plus 17 in the March survey, according to a Quick poll of economists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
But similar reasoning also applies to the diffusion of technological innovations, insofar as they are best suited without modification to specific environments.
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
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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