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).
cultural diffusion in Science. The movement of atoms or molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. Atoms and small molecules can move across a cell membrane by diffusion. Compare osmosis.