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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) »
- Colloids
- Foams
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).
Agitator (device)
An agitator is a device or mechanism to put something into motion by shaking or stirring.
See Foam and Agitator (device)
Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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.
See Foam and Aluminium foam sandwich
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.
Armrest
An armrest (or arm-rest) is a part of a chair, where a person can rest their arms on.
See Foam and Armrest
Ballistic foam
Ballistic foam is a foam that sets hard. Foam and Ballistic foam are foams.
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.
Biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
Biofoam
Biofoams are biological or biologically derived foams, making up lightweight and porous cellular solids. Foam and Biofoam are foams.
See Foam and Biofoam
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.
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.
Bread
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking.
See Foam and Bread
Bubble (physics)
A bubble is a globule of a gas substance in a liquid.
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.
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.
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.
Chemical industry
The chemical industry comprises the companies and other organizations that develop and produce industrial, specialty and other chemicals.
See Foam and Chemical industry
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.
See Foam and Child safety seat
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.
See Foam and Colloid
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.
See Foam and Composite material
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.
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.
See Foam and Curing (chemistry)
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.
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.
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.
Density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.
See Foam and Density
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.
See Foam and Diffusing-wave spectroscopy
Dipole
In physics, a dipole is an electromagnetic phenomenon which occurs in two ways.
See Foam and Dipole
Disjoining pressure
In surface chemistry, disjoining pressure (symbol) according to an IUPAC definition arises from an attractive interaction between two surfaces.
See Foam and Disjoining pressure
Dispersed media
A dispersed medium consists of two media that do not mix.
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.
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.
See Foam and Double layer (surface science)
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.
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.
Ethylene-vinyl acetate
Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), also known as poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) (PEVA), is a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate.
See Foam and Ethylene-vinyl acetate
Fermentation
Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substances through the action of enzymes.
Firefighting foam
Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression. Foam and Firefighting foam are foams.
See Foam and Firefighting foam
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.
Foam
Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. Foam and Foam are colloids and foams.
See Foam and Foam
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.
See Foam and Foam depopulation
Foam fractionation
Foam fractionation is a chemical process in which hydrophobic molecules are preferentially separated from a liquid solution using rising columns of foam.
See Foam and Foam fractionation
Foam glass
Foam glass is a porous glass foam material.
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.
Froth flotation
Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic.
Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.
See Foam and Gas
Gravitational acceleration
In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag).
See Foam and Gravitational acceleration
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.
See Foam and Honeycomb (geometry)
Hydraulic fluid
A hydraulic fluid or hydraulic liquid is the medium by which power is transferred in hydraulic machinery.
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.
See Foam and Industrial computed tomography
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.
See Foam and Interface (matter)
Isabelle Cantat
Isabelle Cantat (née Durand, born 1974) is a French physicist specializing in foams and their fluid dynamics.
Isotropy
In physics and geometry, isotropy is uniformity in all orientations.
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.
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.
See Foam and Liquid
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.
See Foam and List of materials properties
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.
Mass transfer
Mass transfer is the net movement of mass from one location (usually meaning stream, phase, fraction, or component) to another.
Materials science
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.
See Foam and Materials science
Mattress
A mattress is a large, usually rectangular pad for supporting a lying person.
Memory foam
Memory foam consists mainly of polyurethane with additional chemicals that increase its viscosity and density. Foam and Memory foam are foams.
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.
Metastability
In chemistry and physics, metastability is an intermediate energetic state within a dynamical system other than the system's state of least energy.
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.
Minimal surface
In mathematics, a minimal surface is a surface that locally minimizes its area.
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.
Oil well fire
Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn.
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.
Package cushioning
Package cushioning is used to protect items during shipment.
See Foam and Package cushioning
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.
See Foam and Pickering emulsion
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).
Plateau's laws
Plateau's laws describe the structure of soap films.
Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
See Foam and Polymer
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).
See Foam and Polyvinyl chloride
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.
Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
See Foam and Protein
Quantum foam
Quantum foam or spacetime foam is a theoretical quantum fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics.
Randomness
In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information.
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.
See Foam and Reaction injection molding
Reticulated foam
Reticulated foam is a very porous, low density solid foam. Foam and Reticulated foam are foams.
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.
See Foam and Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials
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.
See Foam and Sandwich-structured composite
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.
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.
See Foam and Shape-memory polymer
Shoe
A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot.
See Foam and Shoe
Silicone
In organosilicon and polymer chemistry, a silicone or polysiloxane is a polymer composed of repeating units of siloxane (where R.
Silicone foam
Silicone foam is a synthetic rubber product used in gasketing, sheets and firestops. Foam and Silicone foam are foams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stress–strain curve
In engineering and materials science, a stress–strain curve for a material gives the relationship between stress and strain.
See Foam and Stress–strain curve
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.
Surface tension
Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.
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.
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.
See Foam and Syneresis (chemistry)
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.
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.
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.
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.
See Foam and Thermal insulation
Tide pool
A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore.
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.
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England.
See Foam and University of Nottingham
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.
See Foam and Weaire–Phelan structure
Work (physics)
In science, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement.
Yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.
See Foam and Yeast
See also
Colloids
- Aerosol
- Aerosols
- Artificial butter flavoring
- Bredig's arc method
- Butter
- Clay–water interaction
- Colloid
- Colloid-facilitated transport
- Colloidal chemistry
- Colloidal gold
- Dispersity
- Eigencolloid
- Emulsion
- Foam
- Formazine
- Freeze-casting
- Gel
- Gelation
- Gels
- Imbibition
- Nephelometer
- Patchy particles
- Peptization
- Polyelectrolyte
- Protective colloid
- Sodium adsorption ratio
- Sol (colloid)
- Syneresis (chemistry)
- Transport length
- Turbidity
- Wax emulsion
Foams
- Acoustic foam
- Aerogels
- Aluminium foam sandwich
- Ballistic foam
- Biofoam
- Carbon nanofoam
- Defoamer
- Expanded polyethylene
- Firefighting foam
- Foam
- Foaming agent
- Fogbank
- Memory foam
- Metal foam
- Metallic microlattice
- Minimal surfaces
- Nanofoam
- Nanolattice
- Nucleation in microcellular foaming
- Phase-out of polystyrene foam
- Polyimide foam
- Polymeric foam
- Polyurethane foam
- Porous carbon
- Reticulated foam
- Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials
- Sea foam
- Silicone foam
- Sponge bomb
- Styrofoam
- Syntactic foam
- Titanium foam
References
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).