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Moisture vs Dewet - What's the difference?

moisture | dewet |

As a noun moisture

is a moderate degree of wetness.

As a verb dewet is

to undergo or cause the rupture of a thin liquid film on a liquid or solid substrate.

moisture

English

Noun

(wikipedia moisture) (en-noun)
  • A moderate degree of wetness.
  • :(Francis Bacon)
  • That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
  • All my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. -
  • (medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
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    dewet

    English

    Verb

    (dewett)
  • (fluid mechanics, nanoscience) To undergo or cause the rupture of a thin liquid film on a liquid or solid substrate
  • * {{quote-journal, 2004, Rada A. Pushkarova & Roger D. Horn, Surface forces measured between an air bubble and a solid surface in waterstar, open, Colloids and Surfaces A, volume=261, doi=10.1016/j.colsurfa.2004.10.132
  • , passage=It is well known that air bubbles attach to hydrophobic surfaces; in other words, such surfaces are partially dewetted by water.}}
  • To remove moisture from
  • * {{quote-journal, 1995, Luis Cisneros-Zevallos et al., Mechanism of Surface White Discoloration of Peeled (Minimally Processed) Carrots During Storage, Journal of Food Science citation
  • , passage=To obtain normal surface moisture, the peeled carrots were dewetted by centrifuging with a salad spinner.}}

    See also

    * (Dewetting)

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