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Foam

Index Foam

Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 111 relations: Aeration, Agitator (device), Aluminium, Aluminium foam sandwich, Amphiphile, Armrest, Ballistic foam, Beer head, Biochemistry, Biofoam, Blowing agent, Brady Haran, Bread, Bubble (physics), Buoyancy, By-product, Cellular respiration, Chaotic bubble, Chemical industry, Child safety seat, Colloid, Composite material, Contamination, Curing (chemistry), Decomposition, Deep sea, Defoamer, Density, Diffusing-wave spectroscopy, Dipole, Disjoining pressure, Dispersed media, Dispersity, Double layer (surface science), Elastic modulus, Elastomer, Ethylene-vinyl acetate, Fermentation, Firefighting foam, Firestop, Foam, Foam depopulation, Foam fractionation, Foam glass, Foam party, Froth flotation, Gas, Gravitational acceleration, Gravity, Honeycomb (geometry), ... Expand index (61 more) »

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Aeration

Aeration (also called aerification or aeriation) is the process by which air is circulated through, mixed with or dissolved in a liquid or other substances that act as a fluid (such as soil).

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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 (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has 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. Foam and aluminium foam sandwich are foams.

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Amphiphile

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

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Armrest

An armrest (or arm-rest) is a part of a chair, where a person can rest their arms on.

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Ballistic foam

Ballistic foam is a foam that sets hard. Foam and Ballistic foam are foams.

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Beer head

Beer head (also head or collar) is the frothy foam on top of beer and carbonated beverages which is produced by bubbles of gas, predominantly carbon dioxide, rising to the surface.

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Biochemistry

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

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Biofoam

Biofoams are biological or biologically derived foams, making up lightweight and porous cellular solids. Foam and Biofoam are foams.

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Blowing agent

A blowing agent is a substance which is capable of producing a cellular structure via a foaming process in a variety of materials that undergo hardening or phase transition, such as polymers, plastics, and metals.

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Brady Haran

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

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Bread

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

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Bubble (physics)

A bubble is a globule of a gas substance in a liquid.

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Buoyancy

Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.

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By-product

A by-product or byproduct is a secondary product derived from a production process, manufacturing process or chemical reaction; it is not the primary product or service being produced.

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Cellular respiration

Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which contains energy.

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Chaotic bubble

Chaotic bubbles within physics and mathematics, occur in cases when there are any dynamic processes that generate bubbles that are nonlinear.

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies and other organizations that develop and produce industrial, specialty and other chemicals.

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Child safety seat

A child safety seat, sometimes called an infant safety seat, child restraint system, child seat, baby seat, car seat, or a booster seat, is a seat designed specifically to protect children from injury or death during vehicle collisions.

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Colloid

A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Foam and colloid are colloids.

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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 which is produced from two or more constituent materials.

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Contamination

Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

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Curing (chemistry)

Curing is a chemical process employed in polymer chemistry and process engineering that produces the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains.

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Decomposition

Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.

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Deep sea

The deep sea is broadly defined as the ocean depth where light begins to fade, at an approximate depth of or the point of transition from continental shelves to continental slopes.

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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. Foam and defoamer are foams.

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Density

Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.

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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 physics, a dipole is an electromagnetic phenomenon which occurs in two ways.

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Disjoining pressure

In surface chemistry, disjoining pressure (symbol) 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

In chemistry, the dispersity is a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture. Foam and dispersity are colloids.

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Double layer (surface science)

In 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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Elastic modulus

An elastic modulus (also known as modulus of elasticity) is the unit of measurement of an object's or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e., non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it.

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Elastomer

An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i.e. both viscosity and elasticity) and with weak intermolecular forces, generally low Young's modulus (E) and high failure strain compared with other materials.

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Ethylene-vinyl acetate

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

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Fermentation

Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substances through the action of enzymes.

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Firefighting foam

Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression. Foam and Firefighting foam are foams.

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Firestop

A firestop or fire-stopping is a form of passive fire protection that is used to seal around openings and between joints in a fire-resistance-rated wall or floor assembly.

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Foam

Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. Foam and Foam are colloids and foams.

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Foam depopulation

Foam depopulation or foaming is a means of mass killing farm animals by spraying foam over a large area to obstruct breathing and ultimately cause suffocation.

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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 glass

Foam glass is a porous glass foam material.

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Foam party

A foam party is a social event at which participants dance to music on a dance floor covered in several feet of suds or bubbles, dispensed from a foam machine.

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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.

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Gravitational acceleration

In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag).

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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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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Isabelle Cantat

Isabelle Cantat (née Durand, born 1974) is a French physicist specializing in foams and their fluid dynamics.

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Isotropy

In physics and geometry, isotropy is uniformity in all orientations.

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Lamella (materials)

A lamella (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 two fluid regions.

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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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List of materials properties

A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material.

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Marangoni effect

The Marangoni effect (also called the Gibbs–Marangoni effect) is the mass transfer along an interface between two phases 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

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.

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Mattress

A mattress is a large, usually rectangular pad for supporting a lying person.

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Memory foam

Memory foam consists mainly of polyurethane with additional chemicals that increase its viscosity and density. Foam and Memory foam are foams.

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Metal foam

Regular foamed aluminium In materials science, a metal foam is a material or structure consisting of a solid metal (frequently aluminium) with gas-filled pores comprising a large portion of the volume. Foam and metal foam are foams.

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Metastability

In chemistry and physics, metastability is an intermediate energetic state within 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 object.

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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. Foam and Nanofoam are foams.

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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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Package cushioning

Package cushioning is used to protect items during shipment.

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Pickering emulsion

A Ramsden emulsion, sometimes named Pickering emulsion, is an emulsion that is stabilized by solid particles (for example colloidal silica) which adsorb onto the interface between the water and oil phases.

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Plankton

Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).

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Plateau's laws

Plateau's laws describe the structure of soap films.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly(vinyl chloride), colloquial: vinyl or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (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 and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Quantum foam

Quantum foam or spacetime foam is a theoretical quantum fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics.

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Randomness

In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information.

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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. Foam and Reticulated foam are foams.

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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. Foam and Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials are foams.

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Sandwich-structured composite

In materials science, 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) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. Foam and sea foam are foams.

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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 when 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.

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Silicone

In organosilicon and polymer chemistry, a silicone or polysiloxane is a polymer composed of repeating units of siloxane (where R.

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Silicone foam

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

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Sleeping pad

In camping, a ground pad, sleeping pad, thermal pad, sleeping mat, or roll mat is lightweight pad, common among hikers, backpackers and budget travelers, often used in conjunction with a sleeping bag.

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Soda geyser

A soda geyser is a physical reaction between a carbonated beverage, usually Diet Coke, and Mentos mints that causes the beverage to be expelled from its container.

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Soft matter

Soft matter or soft condensed matter is a type of matter that can be deformed or structurally altered by thermal or mechanical stress of the magnitude of thermal fluctuations.

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Solid

Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter along with liquid, gas, and plasma.

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Sponge (tool)

A sponge is a cleaning aid made of soft, porous material.

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Stress–strain curve

In engineering and materials science, a stress–strain curve for a material gives the relationship between stress and strain.

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Surface area

The surface area (symbol A) 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 tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.

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Surfactant

Surfactants are chemical compounds that decrease the surface tension or interfacial tension between two liquids, a liquid and a gas, or 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, such as when serum drains from a contracting clot of blood. Foam and Syneresis (chemistry) are colloids.

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Syntactic foam

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

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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 or tiling is the covering of a surface, often 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

A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore.

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Unit cell

In geometry, biology, mineralogy and solid state physics, a unit cell is a repeating unit formed by the vectors spanning the points of a lattice.

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University of Nottingham

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

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Van der Waals force

In molecular physics and chemistry, the van der Waals force (sometimes van de Waals' force) is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules.

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Weaire–Phelan structure

In geometry, the Weaire–Phelan structure is a three-dimensional structure representing an idealised foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two different shapes.

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Work (physics)

In science, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement.

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Yeast

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

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See also

Colloids

Foams

References

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

Also known as Closed cell foam, Closed-cell foam, Elastomeric foam, Foam material, Foaming, Foams, Foamy, Froth, Frothed, Frothiness, Frothing, Froths, Frothy, Gas in liquid, Integral skin foam, Self skin, Self-skin foam, Space-filling bubble, Suds (foam).

, Hydraulic fluid, Industrial computed tomography, Interface (matter), Isabelle Cantat, Isotropy, Lamella (materials), Laplace pressure, Liquid, List of materials properties, Marangoni effect, Mass transfer, Materials science, Mattress, Memory foam, Metal foam, Metastability, Micrograph, Minimal surface, Nanofoam, Oil well fire, Osmotic pressure, Package cushioning, Pickering emulsion, Plankton, Plateau's laws, Polymer, 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, Soda geyser, Soft matter, Solid, Sponge (tool), Stress–strain curve, Surface area, Surface tension, Surfactant, Syneresis (chemistry), Syntactic foam, T1 process, Tessellation, Thermal insulation, Tide pool, Unit cell, University of Nottingham, Van der Waals force, Weaire–Phelan structure, Work (physics), Yeast.