What's the difference between expand and fugacity?

Expand


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
  • (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
  • (v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
  • (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (2) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
  • (3) About 30% of clonable T cells, including both CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8+ cells, could be expanded for assay at an average of 22 days after cloning.
  • (4) Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand.
  • (5) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
  • (6) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
  • (7) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
  • (8) The analysis is further expanded to a more general case to result in four criteria based upon the energy concepts.
  • (9) Guanabenz is acutely natriuretic and diuretic in saline expanded animals.
  • (10) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
  • (11) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
  • (12) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
  • (13) The expanded tumor-infiltrating cells were Leu-4+ T cells, and in five of six patients the majority were Leu-3+.
  • (14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
  • (15) Our understanding of the organisation of eye movements has been greatly expanded in recent years, mainly due to studies in animals.
  • (16) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
  • (17) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (18) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
  • (19) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
  • (20) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.

Fugacity


Definition:

  • (a.) The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
  • (a.) Uncertainty; instability.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of fugacity provides direct insights into the relative chemical equilibrium partitioning status of compartments, thus facilitating interpretation of experimental and model data.
  • (2) The fugacity and concentration models are mathematically equivalent and produce identical results.
  • (3) It is suggested that water in the deep grooves, characteristic of the active sites of many enzymes, may have a substantially higher fugacity than bulk water as indicated, at least qualitatively, by the Kelvin equation based on surface curvature.
  • (4) From these results, we derive a fugacity-based model for skin permeability that addresses the inherent permeability of the skin, the interaction of the skin with the environmental medium on skin (water or soil), and retains a relatively simple algebraic form.
  • (5) Concentrations in the environment were calculated using the fugacity model of Mackay and Paterson.
  • (6) 73, 159-175) of styrene inhalation in rats, with extrapolation to humans, was reformulated with the chemical equilibrium criterion of fugacity instead of concentration to describe compartment partitioning.
  • (7) Fugacity models have been used successfully to describe environmental partitioning processes which are similar in principle to pharmacokinetic processes.
  • (8) It is suggested that pharmacokinetic fugacity models can complement conventional concentration models and may facilitate linkage to fugacity models describing environmental sources, pathways, and exposure routes.

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