diffusive

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“This could be very useful for understanding other systems. For example, Earth’s and planetary magnetospheres, other magnetized plasma sources, including experiments at laboratory scales where plasma is highly diffusive and very hard to control.”

From Fox News

We now know that electron flow can be diffusive, ballistic or viscous, and that there are experimental tools for differentiating between these regimes.

From Nature

This diffusive feature is actually what puts the “liberal” in liberal democracy and liberal capitalism.

From The Guardian

Instead, we get extended sensory descriptions of life on Lefkáda, memories that glow through a diffusive haze of metaphor.

From The New Yorker

Moreover, the mixing of heavy elements in the model should take into account heat and element diffusion — a process known as diffusive convection13.

From Nature