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).
Water-soluble vitamins, minerals and the simple sugar fructose are absorbed in a process called facilitated diffusion. Nutrients become attached to specific molecules outside the absorptive cell surface. These carrier molecules take the nutrients across the cell membrane and free them once inside the cell.