单词 | surface science |
释义 | > as lemmassurface science surface science n. (a) a science concerned with the surface of something; spec. the branch of physical science that deals with the properties of the surface of a solid, or the interface between any two phases, and the phenomena occurring there; (b) science concerned only with superficial matters, science that lacks depth. ΚΠ 1864 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 158/1 What relation can be traced between..knowledge of the cellular and fibrile arrangement of the brain substance and the surface science of phrenology? 1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. II. 573 There was..the purely intellectual and metaphysical, or the ‘inner Science’, and the as purely materialistic or ‘surface science’. 1910 G. K. Chesterton What's Wrong with World iii. vi. 189 It is the same with the relations of our hasty and surface science, with the problem of sexual dignity and modesty. 1932 P. De Kruif Men against Death 349 It was surface science. It was rough and primitive. 1947 J. J. Bikerman Surface Chem. Industr. Res. iii. 180 Some remarks on corrosion from the point of view of surface science are made in §§162–165. 1982 G. A. Somorjai in D. R. Schryer Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chem. 88/1 Catalytic studies of this type often utilize the various techniques of modern surface science to analyze the atomic surface structure and composition of the working catalyst. 2004 Times (Nexis) 28 Oct. 39 We hope that the UK-built Surface Science Package will send back the first measurements from the surface of Titan. < as lemmas |
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