microviscosity

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English

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Etymology

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From micro- +‎ viscosity.

Noun

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microviscosity (countable and uncountable, plural microviscosities)

  1. The friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.
    • 2008, Goins, A.B., H. Sanabria, M. N. Waxham, "Macromolecular crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity", Biophysics Journal 95:5362-5373
      Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility.
    • 2008, Aron Benjamin Goins, Crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity for polymer cytosolic mimicry[1]:
      The friction experienced by a single particle can be thought of as a microscopic viscosity (microviscosity) and should not necessarily agree with the bulk viscosity since it is a measure of the probe's local friction whereas bulk viscosity analogously would be the measure of an infinitely large probe.

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