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.
Molecular diffusion, often simply called diffusion, is the thermal motion of all particles at temperatures above absolute zero. The rate of this movement is a function of temperature, viscosity of the fluid and the size of the particles. Diffusion explains the net flux of molecules from a region of higher concentration to one of lower concentration. Once the concentrations are equal the molecules continue to move, but since there is no concentration gradient the process of molecular diffusion ha