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dissipation

noun as in amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess

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Left-wing newspaper Libération saw the scandal as part of the dissipation of the Catholic Church's "long vow of silence" about sexual abuse, adding that before the advent of the MeToo movement, the women's allegations would have gone unheard.

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To address the issue, researchers worldwide have turned their attention to the interfacial heat dissipation between MOFs and the materials they come into contact with.

Further analysis using the frequency domain direct decomposition method developed by the team found that the adsorbed water not only activates the high-frequency vibrations, but also increases the overlap of vibrational density of states between the substrate and MOF which enhances the thermal energy dissipation from the substrate to MOF, highlighting the bridge effect of the adsorbed water molecules.

What's more, the designs that are deployed tend to have a low wave dissipation per unit volume of material used.

Until now, researchers have hypothesized that viscoelastic energy dissipation causes adhesion hysteresis in soft solids.

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