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Descriptor English: Wettability
Descriptor Spanish: Humectabilidad
Descriptor humectabilidad
Entry term(s) higroscopicidad
mojabilidad
Scope note: Cualidad o estado de mojarse o grado en que algo puede mojarse. También es la capacidad de cualquier superficie sólida de mojarse cuando entra en contacto con un líquido cuya tensión superficial está reducida, de forma que el líquido se extiende por la superficie del sólido.
Descriptor Portuguese: Molhabilidade
Descriptor French: Mouillabilité
Entry term(s): Hygroscopicities
Hygroscopicity
Wetabilities
Wetability
Wettabilities
Tree number(s): G02.409.500
G02.860.908
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017155
Scope note: The quality or state of being wettable or the degree to which something can be wet. This is also the ability of any solid surface to be wetted when in contact with a liquid whose surface tension is reduced so that the liquid spreads over the surface of the solid.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Surface Properties (1968-1992)
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
Related: Electrowetting MeSH
DeCS ID: 30460
Unique ID: D017155
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/22
Revision Date: 2016/06/17
Wettability - Preferred
Concept UI M0026055
Scope note The quality or state of being wettable or the degree to which something can be wet. This is also the ability of any solid surface to be wetted when in contact with a liquid whose surface tension is reduced so that the liquid spreads over the surface of the solid.
Preferred term Wettability
Entry term(s) Hygroscopicities
Hygroscopicity
Wetabilities
Wetability
Wettabilities



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