1 [NEW!] Sports vocabulary : Words for popular American sports. [ 2 NEW!] Air Travel: Useful words for traveling on airplanes and through airports. 3  The Environment: Vocabulary related to environmental science and climate change.  Family members: Relatives and other important people.
diffusion coefficient see diffusion coefficient. coefficient of digestibility the proportion of a food that is digested compared to what is absorbed, expressed as a percentage. dilution coefficient a number that expresses the effectiveness of a disinfectant for a given organism.
In the physical sciences, a partition-coefficient (P) or distribution-coefficient (D) is the ratio of concentrations of a compound in a mixture of two immiscible phases at equilibrium. This ratio is therefore a measure of the difference in solubility of the compound in these two phases.