10 Facts About Diffusion

1.

Diffusion is the net movement of anything generally from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.

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2.

Diffusion is driven by a gradient in Gibbs free energy or chemical potential.

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3.

Diffusion used Graham's research, stating his goal as "the development of a fundamental law, for the operation of diffusion in a single element of space".

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4.

Diffusion asserted a deep analogy between diffusion and conduction of heat or electricity, creating a formalism similar to Fourier's law for heat conduction and Ohm's law for electric current .

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5.

Diffusion studied self-diffusion of radioactive isotopes of lead in the liquid and solid lead.

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6.

Diffusion concluded, the diffusion process in condensed matter is an ensemble of elementary jumps and quasichemical interactions of particles and defects.

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7.

Diffusion introduced several mechanisms of diffusion and found rate constants from experimental data.

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8.

Diffusion formulated the essence of his approach in the formula:.

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9.

Diffusion coefficient is the coefficient in the Fick's first law, where J is the diffusion flux per unit area per unit time, n is the concentration, x is the position [length].

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10.

Diffusion is a property of substances in water; substances in water tend to move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.

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