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Examples of wetting

wetting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It encodes the wetting history of the process.
In particular, the evolution of oxygen gas upon wetting of soil required a strong oxidant at sufficiently high concentration.
In the semi-arid areas, where this type is quite frequent, the signal is the wetting of the soil.
They used a precursor model, which is the limiting case of completely wetting fluids.
After a period of wetting, more drops of rain may disperse some of the seeds that adhere to the wet soil surface.
Because the samples had already become ignitable prior to this wetting, the experiment was discontinued.
Suggested management strategies to minimize desiccation include spraying during the evening and using supplemental wetting prior to or following application.
There are also other desert plant species with seeds that start to germinate after a very short time of wetting.
A t 5 m, the sensor was covered in a cylindrical tube to determine the degree of wetting caused by cloud interception alone.
In this situation there will be two competing effects: the wetting of the sphere's surface, and the stretching of the interface by the moving sphere.
Effect of shading and wetting on soil temperature (shading/wetting study).
Top right: the hydrophobic cloud (blue) wetting the centre of the folding nucleus (red).
In contrast, the more hydrophilic surface of the coated slides resulted in complete wetting of the surface by the medium.
Active cooling can be produced by wetting and use of fans; alternatively the patient is covered with wet towels and ice packs.
Sources of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide following wetting of dry soil.
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