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.
Diffusion is a process leading to equalization of substance concentrations in a system or establishing in a system an equilibrium concentration distribution that results from random migration of the system's elements. Three types of diffusion are distinguished, viz., molecular, Brownian, and turbulent.