Definition of Interfacial surface tension

1. Noun. Surface tension at the surface separating two non-miscible liquids.

Exact synonyms: Interfacial Tension
Generic synonyms: Surface Tension

Medical Definition of Interfacial surface tension

1. The tension or resistance to separation possessed by the film of liquid between two well-adapted surfaces, as of the thin film of saliva between the denture base and the tissues. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interfacial Surface Tension

interestless
interests
interethnic
interevent
interexchange
interexchanges
interexperimental
interface
interface segregation principle
interfaced
interfaceless
interfaces
interfacial
interfacial canals
interfacial energy
interfacial surface tension (current term)
interfacial tension
interfacially
interfacing
interfacings
interfaction
interfactional
interfactorial
interfaculty
interfaith
interfamilial
interfamily
interfascicular
interfascicular fasciculus

Literary usage of Interfacial surface tension

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1895)
"Wilson has shown that the conditions of free and interfacial surface-tension in Amphioxus vary in different eggs from some unexplained cause, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"The greatest dimension of the cell in turn is also often, if not usually, determined by the conditions of free and interfacial surface-tension manifested ..."

3. Textbook of Physical Chemistry by Azariah Thomas Lincoln (1920)
"They attribute the phenomenon in the froth process to be due to the interfacial surface tension which determines the character as well as the formation of ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... determined by the conditions of free and interfacial surface-tension manifested between the members of a cellular aggregate composing a segmenting egg. ..."

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