Thixotropy, the Glossary
Thixotropy is a time-dependent shear thinning property.[1]
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Aberfan disaster
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Bingham plastic
In materials science, a Bingham plastic is a viscoplastic material that behaves as a rigid body at low stresses but flows as a viscous fluid at high stress.
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Calcium sulfate
Calcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula CaSO4 and related hydrates.
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Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.
Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical.
CMYK color model
The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.
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Colloid
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance.
Cytoplasm
In cell biology, the cytoplasm describes all material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus.
Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Drilling fluid
In geotechnical engineering, drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, is used to aid the drilling of boreholes into the earth.
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Fillet (mechanics)
In mechanical engineering, a fillet is a rounding of an interior or exterior corner of a part.
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Fluid
In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force. Thixotropy and fluid are fluid dynamics.
Fluid dynamics
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases. Thixotropy and fluid dynamics are continuum mechanics.
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Fumed silica
Fumed silica (CAS number 112945-52-5), also known as pyrogenic silica because it is produced in a flame, consists of microscopic droplets of amorphous silica fused into branched, chainlike, three-dimensional secondary particles which then agglomerate into tertiary particles.
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Gel
A gel is a semi-solid that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough.
Geotechnical engineering
Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.
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Ground substance
Ground substance is an amorphous gel-like substance in the extracellular space of animals that contains all components of the extracellular matrix (ECM) except for fibrous materials such as collagen and elastin.
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Herbert Freundlich
Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich (28 January 1880 in Charlottenburg – 30 March 1941 in Minneapolis) was a German chemist.
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Injection moulding
Injection moulding (U.S. spelling: injection molding) is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mould, or mold.
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Iron(III) oxide
Iron(III) oxide or ferric oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Fe2O3.
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Januarius
Januarius (Ianuarius; Neapolitan and Gennaro), also known as, was Bishop of Benevento and is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Kaye effect
The Kaye effect is a property of complex liquids which was first described by the British engineer Alan Kaye in 1963.
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Ketchup
Ketchup or catsup is a table condiment with a sweet and sour flavor.
Lahar
A lahar (from ꦮ꧀ꦭꦲꦂ) is a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water.
Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
A light metal is any metal of relatively low density.
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Liquefaction
In materials science, liquefaction is a process that generates a liquid from a solid or a gas or that generates a non-liquid phase which behaves in accordance with fluid dynamics.
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Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.
Mānuka honey
Mānuka honey is a monofloral honey produced from the nectar of the mānuka tree, Leptospermum scoparium.
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Miracle
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary defines as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency." and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural cause.
Nanocellulose
Nanocellulose is a term referring to a familly of cellulosic materials that have at least one of their dimensions in the nanoscale.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
Non-Newtonian fluid
A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid that does not follow Newton's law of viscosity, that is, it has variable viscosity dependent on stress. Thixotropy and non-Newtonian fluid are continuum mechanics, fluid dynamics and Tribology.
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Plastisol
A plastisol is a colloidal dispension of small polymer particles, usually polyvinyl chloride (PVC), in a liquid plasticizer.
Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
Power-law fluid
In continuum mechanics, a power-law fluid, or the Ostwald–de Waele relationship, is a type of generalized Newtonian fluid (time-independent non-Newtonian fluid) for which the shear stress,, is given by where.
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Rheology
Rheology is the study of the flow of matter, primarily in a fluid (liquid or gas) state but also as "soft solids" or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applied force. Thixotropy and Rheology are continuum mechanics, fluid dynamics and Tribology.
Rheopecty
In continuum mechanics, rheopecty or rheopexy is the rare property of some non-Newtonian fluids to show a time-dependent increase in viscosity (time-dependent viscosity); the longer the fluid undergoes shearing force, the higher its viscosity.
Screen printing
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.
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Semen
Semen, also known as seminal fluid, is a bodily fluid that contains spermatozoa.
Semi-solid metal casting (SSM) is a near net shape variant of die casting.
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Shear stress
Shear stress (often denoted by, Greek: tau) is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section. Thixotropy and Shear stress are continuum mechanics.
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Shear thinning
In rheology, shear thinning is the non-Newtonian behavior of fluids whose viscosity decreases under shear strain. Thixotropy and shear thinning are continuum mechanics and Tribology.
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Silly Putty
Silly Putty is a toy containing silicone polymers that have unusual physical properties.
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Sol–gel process
In materials science, the sol–gel process is a method for producing solid materials from small molecules.
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Solder paste
Solder paste is used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards to connect surface mount components to pads on the board.
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Space Pen
The Space Pen (also known as the Zero Gravity Pen), marketed by Fisher Space Pen Company, is a pen that uses pressurized ink cartridges and is able to write in zero gravity, underwater, over wet and greasy paper, at any angle, and in a very wide range of temperatures.
Stress (mechanics)
In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.
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Structural engineering
Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and joints' that create the form and shape of human-made structures.
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Textile printing
Textile printing is the process of applying color to fabric in definite patterns or designs.
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Thread-locking fluid
Thread-locking fluid or threadlocker is a single-component adhesive, applied to the threads of fasteners such as screws and bolts to prevent loosening, leakage, and corrosion.
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Time-dependent viscosity
In continuum mechanics, time-dependent viscosity is a property of fluids whose viscosity changes as a function of time.
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Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate. Thixotropy and viscosity are fluid dynamics.
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Yogurt
Yogurt (from; also spelled yoghurt, yogourt or yoghourt) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thixotropy
Also known as Antithixotropic, Thicksotropic, Thixatropic, Thixotropic, Thixotropic Fluid, Thixotropic Fluids, Tixotropy.
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