Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

langmuir-blodgett trough

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English

Syllables: lang-muir-blod-get-t trough
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An item of laboratory apparatus used to compress monolayers of molecules on the surface of a given subphase (usually water) and to measure surface phenomena due to this compression.

Etymology

Named after Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett.

Inflected Forms

Langmuir-Blodgett troughs (plural)

Synonyms

LB trough

Questions

What does langmuir-blodgett trough mean?: An item of laboratory apparatus used to compress monolayers of molecules on the surface of a given subphase (usually water) and to measure surface phenomena due to this compression.
Where does langmuir-blodgett trough come from?: Named after Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett.

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