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pseudoplastics

pseudoplastics

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Noun

pseudoplastics

  1. plural of pseudoplastic
    • 2015 September 26, “Heat Transfer Analysis for Stationary Boundary Layer Slip Flow of a Power-Law Fluid in a Darcy Porous Medium with Plate Suction/Injection”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0138855:
      Dilatant or shear thickening fluids are liquids in which viscosity increases as the applied stress increases, whereas pseudoplastics or shear thinning fluids are characterized by the opposite relationship between viscosity and applied stress.