liquid film

collocation in English

meaningsofliquidandfilm

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liquid
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪk.wɪd/us
/ˈlɪk.wɪd/
in the form of ...
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film
noun
uk
/fɪlm/us
/fɪlm/
mainly UK
a series of moving pictures, usually shown in a cinema or on television and often telling ...
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(Definition ofliquidandfilmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofliquid film

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The first is the familiar singleliquidfilmflowing down a rigid inclined plane, bounded above by a gas.
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Each group is studied using the model of a thinliquidfilmwith a deformable top surface flowing down a rigid inclined plane.
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The spreading on a water-air interface of a thinliquidfilmis examined for the situation in which surface tension gradients drive the motion.
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The resulting surface instability was similar to that found when streaming occurs between a gas and aliquidfilm.
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In these experiments the controlled separating membrane of a new type with aliquidfilmwas used.
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Theliquidfilmof soap solution is applied on this grid.
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Aliquidfilmon a rigid inclined plane bounded above by a free surface is the simplest system that exhibits this kind of behaviour.
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When a viscous liquid is displaced by a long air bubble in a capillary, it leaves behind a wettingliquidfilm.
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This mechanism for the long-wave instability is displayed very clearly in the uniform-flow model for theliquidfilm.
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This problem is somewhat different in that three phases are present: a solid, aliquidfilm, and a flowing gas.
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In coating technology, the behaviour of the initialliquidfilmcan affect the quality of the final coated surface.
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A similarity solution is obtained numerically for unidirectional spreading when some general restrictions concerning the form of theliquidfilmconstitutive relation is made.
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Microconductors get warm and theliquidfilmbegins to be ruptured in the places of contact with microconductors.
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Kelly et al. (1989) have provided one explanation for this mechanism by considering the flow of a singleliquidfilmon a rigid inclined plane.
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The second model is also a singleliquidfilmflowing down a rigid inclined plane, but bounded above by a moving compliant surface (a thin elastic plate).
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