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Foam

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Foam is a substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. [1]

98 relations: Aeration, Agitator (device), Aluminium, Aluminium foam sandwich, Amphiphile, Armrest, Ballistic foam, Biochemistry, Brady Haran, Bread, Buoyancy, By-product, Cellular respiration, Chaotic bubble, Chemical industry, Child safety seat, Colloid, Composite material, Contamination, Crystal structure, Cushioning, Decomposition, Deep sea, Defoamer, Density, Diet Coke and Mentos eruption, Diffusing-wave spectroscopy, Dipole, Disjoining pressure, Dispersed media, Dispersity, Double layer (surface science), Ethylene-vinyl acetate, Fermentation, Firefighting foam, Firestop, Foam, Foam fractionation, Foam rubber, Froth flotation, Gas, Gravity, Honeycomb (geometry), Hydraulic fluid, Industrial computed tomography, Interface (matter), Lamella (materials), Laplace pressure, Liquid, Marangoni effect, ..., Mass transfer, Materials science, Mattress, Memory foam, Metal foam, Metastability, Micrograph, Minimal surface, Nanofoam, Oil well fire, Osmotic pressure, Phenol formaldehyde resin, Pickering emulsion, Plankton, Plateau's laws, Polymer, Polystyrene, Polyurethane, Polyvinyl chloride, Pore (bread), Protein, Quantum foam, Randomness, Reaction injection molding, Reticulated foam, Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials, Sandwich-structured composite, Sea foam, Shape-memory polymer, Shoe, Silicone, Silicone foam, Sleeping pad, Solid, Surface area, Surface tension, Surfactant, Syneresis (chemistry), Syntactic foam, T1 process, Tessellation, Thermal insulation, Tide pool, University of Nottingham, Van der Waals force, Weaire–Phelan structure, Work (physics), Yeast. Expand index (48 more) »

Aeration

Aeration (also called aerification) is the process by which air is circulated through, mixed with or dissolved in a liquid or substance.

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Agitator (device)

An agitator is a device or mechanism to put something into motion by shaking or stirring.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Aluminium foam sandwich

Aluminium foam sandwich (AFS) is a sandwich panel product which is made of two metallic dense face sheets and a metal foam core made of an aluminium alloy.

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Amphiphile

An amphiphile (from the Greek αμφις, amphis: both and φιλíα, philia: love, friendship) is a chemical compound possessing both hydrophilic (water-loving, polar) and lipophilic (fat-loving) properties.

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Armrest

In an automotive context, an armrest (or arm rest) is a feature found in many modern vehicles on which occupants can rest their arms.

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Ballistic foam

Ballistic foam is a foam that sets hard.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Brady Haran

Brady John Haran (born 18 June 1976) is an Australian-born British independent filmmaker and video journalist who is known for his educational videos and documentary films produced for BBC News and his YouTube channels, the most notable being Periodic Videos and Numberphile.

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Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking.

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Buoyancy

In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.

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By-product

A by-product is a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction.

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Cellular respiration

Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and then release waste products.

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Chaotic bubble

Many dynamic processes that generate bubbles are nonlinear, many exhibiting mathematically chaotic patterns consistent with chaos theory.

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.

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Child safety seat

A child safety seat (infant safety seat, child restraint system, child seat, baby seat, restraining car seat, car seat, etc.) is a seat designed specifically to protect children from injury or death during vehicle collisions.

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Colloid

In chemistry, a colloid is a mixture in which one substance of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance.

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.

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Contamination

Contamination is the presence of an unwanted constituent, contaminant or impurity in a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

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Crystal structure

In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline material.

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Cushioning

Package cushioning is used to help protect fragile items during shipment.

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Decomposition

Decomposition is the process by which organic substances are broken down into simpler organic matter.

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Deep sea

The deep sea or deep layer is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms (1800 m) or more.

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Defoamer

A defoamer or an anti-foaming agent is a chemical additive that reduces and hinders the formation of foam in industrial process liquids.

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Density

The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume.

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Diet Coke and Mentos eruption

A soda geyser (alternatively Diet Coke and Mentos geyser or Mentos eruption) is a reaction between the carbonated beverage Diet Coke and Mentos mints that causes the beverage to spray out of its container.

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Diffusing-wave spectroscopy

Diffusing-wave spectroscopy (DWS) is an optical technique derived from dynamic light scattering (DLS) that studies the dynamics of scattered light in the limit of strong multiple scattering.

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Dipole

In electromagnetism, there are two kinds of dipoles.

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Disjoining pressure

Disjoining pressure (symbol Πd), in surface chemistry, according to an IUPAC definition, arises from an attractive interaction between two surfaces.

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Dispersed media

A dispersed medium consists of two media that do not mix.

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Dispersity

A monodisperse, or uniform, polymer is composed of molecules of the same mass.

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Double layer (surface science)

A double layer (DL, also called an electrical double layer, EDL) is a structure that appears on the surface of an object when it is exposed to a fluid.

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Ethylene-vinyl acetate

Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), also known as poly (ethylene-vinyl acetate) (PEVA), is the copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate.

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Fermentation

Fermentation is a metabolic process that consumes sugar in the absence of oxygen.

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Firefighting foam

Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression.

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Firestop

A firestop is a passive fire protection system made up of various components and used to seal openings and joints in a fire-resistance-rated wall or floor assembly.

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Foam

Foam is a substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.

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Foam fractionation

Foam fractionation is a chemical process in which hydrophobic molecules are preferentially separated from a liquid solution using rising columns of foam.

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Foam rubber

Foam rubber (also known as cellular, sponge, or expanded rubber) refers to rubber that has been manufactured with a foaming agent to create an air-filled matrix structure.

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Froth flotation

Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic.

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Gas

Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).

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Gravity

Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.

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Honeycomb (geometry)

In geometry, a honeycomb is a space filling or close packing of polyhedral or higher-dimensional cells, so that there are no gaps.

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Hydraulic fluid

A hydraulic fluid or hydraulic liquid is the medium by which power is transferred in hydraulic machinery.

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Industrial computed tomography

Industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning is any computer-aided tomographic process, usually X-ray computed tomography, that uses irradiation to produce three-dimensional internal and external representations of a scanned object.

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Interface (matter)

In the physical sciences, an interface is the boundary between two spatial regions occupied by different matter, or by matter in different physical states.

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Lamella (materials)

A lamella (plural lamellae) is a small plate or flake, from the Latin, and may also be used to refer to collections of fine sheets of material held adjacent to one another, in a gill-shaped structure, often with fluid in between though sometimes simply a set of 'welded' plates.

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Laplace pressure

The Laplace pressure is the pressure difference between the inside and the outside of a curved surface that forms the boundary between a gas region and a liquid region.

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Liquid

A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure.

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Marangoni effect

The Marangoni effect (also called the Gibbs–Marangoni effect) is the mass transfer along an interface between two fluids due to a gradient of the surface tension.

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Mass transfer

Mass transfer is the net movement of mass from one location, usually meaning stream, phase, fraction or component, to another.

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Materials science

The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids.

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Mattress

A mattress is a large, rectangular pad for supporting the reclining body, designed to be used as a bed or on a bed frame, as part of a bed.

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Memory foam

Memory foam consists mainly of polyurethane as well as additional chemicals increasing its viscosity and density.

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Metal foam

Regular foamed aluminium A metal foam is a cellular structure consisting of a solid metal (frequently aluminium) with gas-filled pores comprising a large portion of the volume.

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Metastability

In physics, metastability is a stable state of a dynamical system other than the system's state of least energy.

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Micrograph

A micrograph or photomicrograph is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item.

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Minimal surface

In mathematics, a minimal surface is a surface that locally minimizes its area.

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Nanofoam

Nanofoams are a class of nanostructured, porous materials (foams) containing a significant population of pores with diameters less than 100 nm.

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Oil well fire

Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn.

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Osmotic pressure

Osmotic pressure is the minimum pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of its pure solvent across a semipermeable membrane.

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Phenol formaldehyde resin

Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) or phenolic resins are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde.

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Pickering emulsion

A Pickering emulsion is an emulsion that is stabilized by solid particles (for example colloidal silica) which adsorb onto the interface between the two phases.

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Plankton

Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.

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Plateau's laws

Plateau's laws describe the structure of soap films.

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Polymer

A polymer (Greek poly-, "many" + -mer, "part") is a large molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits.

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Polystyrene

Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic aromatic hydrocarbon polymer made from the monomer styrene.

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Polyurethane

Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride, also known as polyvinyl or '''vinyl''', commonly abbreviated PVC, is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene.

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Pore (bread)

Pores are the air pockets found in leavened bread, where carbon dioxide from the fermentation process creates a network of primarily interconnected void structures.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Quantum foam

Quantum foam (or spacetime foam) is the fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics.

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Randomness

Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.

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Reaction injection molding

Reaction injection molding (RIM) is similar to injection molding except thermosetting polymers are used, which requires a curing reaction to occur within the mold.

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Reticulated foam

Reticulated foam is a very porous, low density solid foam.

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Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials

Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials (RCCM) are three-dimensional lattices of modular structures that can be partially disassembled to enable repairs or other modifications.

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Sandwich-structured composite

A sandwich-structured composite is a special class of composite materials that is fabricated by attaching two thin but stiff skins to a lightweight but thick core.

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Sea foam

Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (including proteins, lignins, and lipids)James G. Acker, CoastalBC.com.

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Shape-memory polymer

Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) are polymeric smart materials that have the ability to return from a deformed state (temporary shape) to their original (permanent) shape induced by an external stimulus (trigger), such as temperature change.

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Shoe

A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while the wearer is doing various activities.

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Silicone

Silicones, also known as polysiloxanes, are polymers that include any inert, synthetic compound made up of repeating units of siloxane, which is a chain of alternating silicon atoms and oxygen atoms, combined with carbon, hydrogen, and sometimes other elements.

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Silicone foam

Silicone foam is a synthetic rubber product used in gasketing, sheets and firestops.

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Sleeping pad

In camping, a ground pad, sleeping pad, sleeping mat, roll mat, or iso mat is a simple device often used in conjunction with a sleeping bag.

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Solid

Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma).

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Surface area

The surface area of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies.

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Surface tension

Surface tension is the elastic tendency of a fluid surface which makes it acquire the least surface area possible.

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Surfactant

Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension (or interfacial tension) between two liquids, between a gas and a liquid, or between a liquid and a solid.

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Syneresis (chemistry)

Syneresis (also spelled 'synæresis' or 'synaeresis'), in chemistry, is the extraction or expulsion of a liquid from a gel, as when serum drains from a contracting clot of blood.

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Syntactic foam

Syntactic foams are composite materials synthesized by filling a metal, polymer, or ceramic matrix with hollow spheres called microballoons or cenospheres or non-hollow spheres (e.g. perlite).

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T1 process

A T1 process (or topological rearrangement process of the first kind) is one of the main processes by which cellular materials such as foams or biological tissues change shapes.

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Tessellation

A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps.

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Thermal insulation

Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e. the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.

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Tide pool

Tide pools or rock pools are shallow pools of seawater that form on the rocky intertidal shore.

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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Van der Waals force

In molecular physics, the van der Waals forces, named after Dutch scientist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, are distance-dependent interactions between atoms or molecules.

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Weaire–Phelan structure

In geometry, the Weaire–Phelan structure is a complex 3-dimensional structure representing an idealised foam of equal-sized bubbles.

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Work (physics)

In physics, a force is said to do work if, when acting, there is a displacement of the point of application in the direction of the force.

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Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam

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