To create characterization in fiction or non-fiction, 1  Tell the reader directly what a character's personality is like: 2  Describe a character's appearance and manner: 3  Portray a character's thoughts and motivations:  Use dialogue to allow a character's words to reveal something important about his or her nature:
Cherniak (2010b) reviews diffusion in the accessory minerals zircon, monazite, apatite, and xenotime, phases important in geochronologic studies. Diffusion in other minerals, including carbonates, sulfide minerals, fluorite and diamond, is reviewed by Cherniak (2010c).
Diffusion. Physics and Chemistry. Diffusion is the movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. Diffusion is not to be confused with osmosis, which is the movement of water through a semi-permeable membrane.