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Imbibition is a special type of diffusion that takes place when liquid is absorbed by solids-colloids causing an increase in volume. Water surface potential movement takes place along a concentration gradient; some dry materials absorb water. A gradient between the absorbent and the liquid is essential for imbibition. For a substance to imbibe a liquid, there must first be some attraction between them. Imbibition occurs when a wetting fluid displaces a non-wetting fluid, the opposite of drainage in which a non-wetting phase displaces the wetting fluid. The two processes are governed by different mechanisms.[clarification needed] Imbibition is also a type of diffusion since water movement is along the concentration gradient. Seeds and other such materials have almost no water hence they absorb water easily. Water potential gradient between the absorbent and liquid imbibed is essential for imbibition.
potential gradient between the absorbent and liquid imbibed is essential for imbibition. One example of imbibition in nature is the absorption of water by hydrophilic...
Imbibe is a magazine published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is published six times a year. The magazine covers beverages of all kinds, including...
requiring the use of a tea strainer to remove the remaining pieces. Water imbibition takes half the time for material that floats with half its area above...
reservoir cores in petroleum engineering. The method combines two spontaneous imbibition measurements and two forced displacement measurements. This test defines...
saturation after water flooding (imbibition). The flowing water saturation window in a water invasion / injection / imbibition process is bounded by a minimum...
practice in alchemy. It is performed by continuously adding a liquid by imbibition to a hard, dry substance while it is heated. Typically, this treatment...
absorbed, or imbibed, by the gelatin coating on the receiving strip rather than simply deposited onto its surface, hence the term "dye imbibition". Strictly...
seeds but not enough to soak them. The uptake of water by seeds is called imbibition, which leads to the swelling and the breaking of the seed coat. When seeds...
water saturations are averaged. Also, as reservoir simulators use the imbibition and secondary drainage capillary pressure data for fluids displacement...
at room temperature, in wet peat pellets, or directly in potting soil. Imbibition of water through the membrane of the seed shell is the first step in the...
membrane without net solvent movement. It is also a factor affecting imbibition. There are three classifications of tonicity that one solution can have...
black-and-white films on safety bases and color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, assuming proper handling and storage...
originally designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail ("a drink")...
their body could tolerate of this new substance and died as a result of imbibing too much. Blackbird wrote: The Ottawas and Chippewas were quite virtuous...
the author and then forgotten, but some useful ones survived, such as 'imbibe' and 'extrapolate'. Many of the most common polysyllabic English words are...
whipped egg white, bourbon, and lemon juice, to improve on its flavor. Imbibe attributes this change to bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler, who published...
technology, information security, energy security and scientific knowledge is imbibed to the trainees. The recruit is made to specialise in a foreign language...
voids. Then implementing a defect analysis utilizing computer software) Imbibition methods, i.e., immersion of the porous sample, under vacuum, in a fluid...
Fairbanks. The process was later refined through the incorporation of dye imbibition, which allowed for the transferring of dyes from both color matrices into...
in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains....
Monk and Doug Messenger considered artistically a disaster, Roth being imbibed on alcohol to the point of forgetting lyrics. Despite this return to form...
moulded the lives of the primitive races all over this wide region, and they imbibed a more elevated moral spirit and a higher intellectual taste through the...
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