Moisture vs Dewet - What's the difference?
moisture | dewet |
A moderate degree of wetness.
:(Francis Bacon)
That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
(medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
(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
, passage=To obtain normal surface moisture, the peeled carrots were dewetted by centrifuging with a salad spinner.}}
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
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Noun
(wikipedia moisture) (en-noun)- All my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. -
Anagrams
*dewet
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Verb
(dewett)citation