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Hematic vs Nematic - What's the difference?

hematic | nematic |

As adjectives the difference between hematic and nematic

is that hematic is of, pertaining to, affecting or containing blood while nematic is whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

As nouns the difference between hematic and nematic

is that hematic is hematinic while nematic is a liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

hematic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, pertaining to, affecting or containing blood

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • hematinic

    • nematic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics, chemistry, of certain liquid crystals) Whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

    • Derived terms

    * nematic phase

    See also

    * cholesteric * smectic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.
  • * 1984 , L D Landau, L. P. Pitaevskii, A. M. Kosevich, E.M. Lifshitz, Theory of Elasticity , Volume 7, page 147,
    • It is easy to see, however, that the same coefficients in nematics determine the adiabatic deformations also.
  • * 1988 , Masao Doi, The Theory of Polymer Dynamics , page 368,
    • For low-molecular-weight nematics', it has been known that the constitutive equation of ' nematics is entirely different from that for isotropic liquids.
  • * 1996 , Lev M. Blinov, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Electrooptic Effects in Liquid Crystal Materials , page 274,
    • Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematics could be classified according to the dependence of the threshold voltage (or field) on the physical parameters of the liquid crystal, cell geometry, field frequency, etc.