microviscosity
Noun
The friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Synonyms
- microscopic viscosity
- Examples
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More examples (2)
Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility.
The friction experienced by a single particle can be thought of as a microscopic viscosity (microviscosity) and should not necessarily agree with the bulk viscosity since it is a measure of the probe's local friction whereas bulk viscosity analogously would be the measure of an infinitely large probe.
Word forms
microviscosities