- Adsorb [v]
Take up and hold (a gas, liquid or dissolved substance) in a thin layer of molecules on the surface of a solid substance.
- Adsorption [n]
Process of adsorption.
- Aerate [v]
To supply (as the soil or a liquid)
wit air; to expose to a mix with air; e.g. water in some reservoirs is aerated and purified by being sprayed high into the air.
- Aerobic [adj]
Living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen.
- Alkane [n]
Any of numerous saturated hydrocarbons.
- Ambient [adj]
All around; surrounding; encompassing.
- Amplitude [n]
The extent of a vibratory movement (as a pendulum) measured from the mean position to an extreme.
- Aniline [n]
A colorless, poisonous, oily liquid, obtained from coal tar, used to in making dyes, medicine, plastics, etc.
- Anion [n]
The ion in an electrolyzed solution that migrates to the anode.
- Annulus [n]
A ring like part, band, or space.
- Appraisal [n]
Estimate of the value, amount, quality, etc.; their appraisal of the stock was too low.
- Aqueous [adj]
Resembling water.
- Areola [n]
A ring-shaped zone around an igneous intrusion.
- Atrophaeus [adj]
Decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue.
- Bacillus [adj]
Bacterium.
- Basalt [n]
A dark gray to black dense to fine-grained igneous rock that consist of basic plagioclase, augite, and usually magnetie.
- Biodegradable [adj]
Capable of being broken down by the action of bacteria.
- Bitumen [n]
Any of a number of minerals that will burn, such as asphalt, petroleum, and naphtha.
- Borehole [n]
A hole or drilled in the earth.
- Brine [n]
Water saturated with common salt.
- Bubble [n]
A small body of gas within a liquid.
- Cake [n]
A hard or brittle layer or deposit.
- Capillary [n]
Resulting from surface tension.
- Capillary attraction [n]
The force that causes a liquid to rise in a narrow tube, or when in contact with a porous substance.
- Casing [n]
Thing put around something; covering; case.
- Catalyst [n]
A substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions than otherwise possible.
- Coarse [adj]
Made up of fairly large parts; e.g. coarse sand.
- Compartmentalize [v]
To separate into isolated compartments or categories.
- Concomitant [adj]
Accompanying; attending; e.g. a concomitant result.
- Condensate [n]
A product of condensation: a liquid obtained by condensation of a gas or vapor.
- Condensation [n]
(in chemistry)
A reaction in which two or more molecules unite to form a larger, denser, and more complex molecules, often with the separation of water or some other simple substance.
- Condensation [n]
A changing of a gas or vapor to a liquid; e.g. the condensation of steam into water.
- Condense [v]
Make denser or more compact; compress.
- Contaminate [n]
To make impure or unclean; e.g. drinking water is contaminated when sewage seeps into the water supply.
- Corrigendum [n]
An error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet.
- Corrosion [n]
The action of destroying.
- Damp [adj]
Slightly or moderately wet.
- Decane [n]
Any of several isomeric liquid alkanes.
- Deplete [v]
Empty or exhaust by drawing away or using up resources, strength, vitality, etc.
- Depletion [n]
Being depleted.
- Diatomite [n]
Earth consisting of the fossil remains of diatoms.
- Dip [v]
To lift a portion of by reaching below the surface with something shaped to hold liquid; put under water or any liquid and lift quickly out again.
- Disperse [v]
Send or drive off in different directions; scatter.
- Dispersive [adj]
Tending to disperse.
- Distillate [n]
A liquid product condensed from vapor.
- Effluent [adj]
Flowing up.
- Electrolyte [n]
A nonmetallic electric conductor in which current is carried by the movement of ions.
- Elucidate [v]
Make clear.
- Emulsify [v]
Make or turn into an emulsion.
- Emulsion [n]
Mixture of liquids that do not dissolve in each other.
- Encase [v]
Put into a case; cover completely; enclose.
- Ensemble [n]
A group producing a single effect.
- Entrain (v)
To draw in and transport as solid particles or gas by the flow of a fluid.
- Entrapment [n]
To catch in or as if in a trap.
- Equilibrium [n]
A state of balance between opposing forces or action that is either static (as in a body acted on by forces whose resultant is zero) or dynamic (as equal reversible chemical reaction when the rates of reaction in both directions are equal).
- Extrapolate [v]
To predict by projecting past experience or known data.
- Gradient [n]
A part slopping upward or downward.
- Grid [n]
An electronic consisting of a mesh or a spiral of fine wire in an electron tube.
- Igneous [adj]
Of, relating to , or resembling fire.
- Imbibitions [n]
The taking up of fluid by a colloidal system resulting in swelling.
- Immiscible [adj]
Incapable of being mixed; e.g. water and oil are immiscible.
- Impervious [adj]
Allowing no passage; impermeable; e.g. a coat made of rubber is impervious to rain.
- Increment [n]
Amount or portion added to a thing so as to increase it; addition.
- Influx [n]
A flowing in; steady flow.
- Inorganic [adj]
Neither animal nor vegetables; e.g. water and minerals are inorganic substances.
- Inorganic chemistry [n]
Branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds and elements.
- Interstice [n]
A space that intervenes between things.
- Ion [n]
Atom or group of atoms having a negative or positive electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons.
- Irreducible [adj]
Impossible to transform into or restore to a desired or simpler condition.
- Iterative [adj]
Full of repletion.
- Kerogen [n]
Bituminous material occurring in shale and yielding oil when heated.
- Kinetics [n]
A branch of science that deals with the effects of forces upon the motion of material bodies or with changes in a physical or chemical system.
- Laminate [v]
Cover with thin plates.
- Laminated [adj]
Formed in a succession of layers of material.
- Limestone [n]
Rock consisting of mostly calcium carbonate; e.g. marble is a kind of limestone.
- Matrix [n]
Something within or from which something else originates; e.g. the rock in which gems, fossils, etc. are embedded.
- Oscillate [v]
Move to and fro between two points.
- Oscillation [n]
A flow of electricity changing periodically from maximum to minimum; e.g. the variation of a quantity from one limit to another, as the voltage of an alternating current.
- Oxide [v]
To combine with oxygen.
- Paleo (combining form)
Old; ancient; primitive; prehistoric; e.g. paleography.
- Paramount [adj]
Superior to all others; chief in importance; above others; supreme.
- Percolation [n]
To cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance.
- Permeable [adj]
Allowing the passage of liquids or gases through it.
- Perturbation [n]
Discompose.
- Photon [n]
A quantum of radiant energy, moving as a unit with the velocity of light.
- Polymer [n]
A mixture of compounds formed by polymerization and consisting essentially of repeating structural units.
- Pore [n]
A very small opening for perspiration, absorption, etc.; a small interstice as in soil admitting absorption or passage of liquid.
- Porosity [n]
The ratio of the volume of interstices of a material to the volume of its mass; a porous structure or part.
- Porous [adj]
Full pores; permeable by water, air, etc.; e.g. clothes, blotting paper, and earthenware are porous.
- Precipitate [v]
To throw something violently.
- Proxy [n]
Power to act for another.
- Quadratic [adj]
Like a square; involving terms of the second degree at most.
- Reagent [n]
Substance used because of its chemical or biological activity.
- Repulsion [n]
The action of driving back.
- Residual [adj]
The difference between results obtained by observation and by computation from a formula or between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
- Retrograde [v]
Moving, occurring, or performed in a backward direction.
- Rheological [adj]
The ability to flow or be deformed.
- Rheology [n]
Science that deals with flow and alteration of form of matter.
- Rotary [adj]
Turning on an axis like a wheel.
- Salinity [n]
Saltiness; saline condition; e.g. a salt spring, well or marsh.
- Scalability [n]
Capable of being easily expanded or upgraded on demand.
- Sediment [n]
Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; e.g. each year the Nile overflows and deposits sediment on the land.
- Seismic [adj]
Earthshaking.
- Shale [n]
A rock formed from hardened clay, mud, or silt in thin layers, which split easily.
- Shear [n]
A cutting implement similar to a pair of scissors but typically larger.
- Silicate [n]
A salt or ester derived from a sadistic acid.
- Solubility [n]
Quality that substances have of being dissolved easily; e.g. the solubility of sugar in water.
- Soluble [adj]
That can be made into liquid; e.g. salt is soluble in water.
- Solvency [n]
The ability of being dissolved.
- Spectroscope [n]
An instrument for forming and examining spectra especially in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Stoichiometric [adj]
The quantitative relationship between two or more substances especially in processes involving physical and chemical change.
- Swab [n]
A mop for cleaning decks, floors, etc..
- Swab [v]
To clean with or as if with a swab.
- Synergic [adj]
Working together.
- Thermal [adj]
Designed to prevent the dissimilation of body heat.
- Thermostable [adj]
Stable when heated.
- Torsional [adj]
The state of being twisted.
- Traverse [n]
Something that crosses or lies across.
- Twist [v]
Turn with a winding motion; wind.
- Upscaling [n]
Of a superior quality.
- Velocity [n]
Quickness of motion; speed; swiftness; e.g. the velocity of light is about 186, 000 miles per second.
- Viscosity [n]
The property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semfluid.
- Viscous [adj]
Thick like heavy syrup or glue; sticky.
- Volumetric [adj]
Involving the measurement of volume.
- Vug [n]
A small unfilled cavity in a lode or in rock.
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