Mooney
/ˈmuːni/Materials Sci.
noun
Attributive Used with reference to various concepts relating to the measurement of physical properties of rubber and other elastic solids, and instruments employed in such measurement; Mooney material noun a material (such as rubber) whose behaviour under large elastic deformation approximates to that of an ideal, perfectly elastic material which is isotropic and incompressible. Mooney viscometer noun a type of viscometer for measuring the viscosity of unvulcanized rubber.
Origin
1940s. From the name of Melvin Mooney, U.S. physicist specializing in the rheology of rubber.
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