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microviscosity en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + viscosity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.
   • 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. 2008, Aron Benjamin Goins, Crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity for polymer cytosolic mimicry:
   • 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, Goins, A.B., H. Sanabria, M. N. Waxham, "Macromolecular crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity", Biophysics Journal 95:5362-5373

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Synonyms

microscopic viscosity