a substance used to seed clouds to control rainfall and fog formation
Examples of 'nucleating agent' in a sentence
nucleating agent
The modification was performed by adding a nucleating agent and thickener.
Lin Liang, Xi Chen 2018, 'Preparation and Thermal Properties of Eutectic Hydrate Salt Phase Change Thermal EnergyStorage Material', International Journal of Photoenergyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6432047. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
X-ray diffraction showed that the alpha type crystallinity remains, irrespective of the nucleating agent.
F. Avalos-Belmontes, L. F. Ramos-deValle, E. Ramírez-Vargas, S. Sánchez-Valdes, J.Méndez-Nonel, R. Zitzumbo-Guzmán 2012, 'Nucleating Effect of Carbon Nanoparticles and Their Influence on the Thermal and ChemicalStability of Polypropylene', Journal of Nanomaterialshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/406214. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Adding a nucleating agent can effectively improve the nucleation rate and nucleation stability.
Lin Liang, Xi Chen 2018, 'Preparation and Thermal Properties of Eutectic Hydrate Salt Phase Change Thermal EnergyStorage Material', International Journal of Photoenergyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6432047. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Halloysite nanotubes in polyamide matrix play the role of a nucleating agent.
Mencel Kinga, Kemnitz Łukasz 2019, 'Influence of heat treatment on the structure and properties of polyamide 6/ halloysitenanocomposites', Archives of Mechanical Technology and Materialshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/amtm.2019.39.issue-1/amtm-2019-0002/amtm-2019-0002.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Several nucleating agents induced crystal formation under conditions where no crystallization occurred in the absence of the nucleating agent.
Anil S Thakur, Gautier Robin, Gregor Guncar, Neil F W Saunders, Janet Newman, JenniferL Martin, Bostjan Kobe 2007, 'Improved success of sparse matrix protein crystallization screening with heterogeneousnucleating agents.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2034409?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nano-titania particles can act as a nucleating agent for hibonite phase and decrease the formation temperature of hibonite.
Sasan Otroj, S. Hossein Badiee 2011, 'THE EFFECT OF NANO-TITANIA ADDITION ON THE PROPERTIES OF HIGH-ALUMINA LOW-CEMENT SELF-FLOWINGREFRACTORY CASTABLES', Ceramics-Silikátyhttp://www.ceramics-silikaty.cz/2011/pdf/2011_04_319.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)