mechanical effects

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The group identified key microstructural features that were created by the process's thermal and mechanical effects, including: torsion, bending, fragmentation, assimilation, oscillation and interdendritic growth.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

In the 1970s Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit thermal radiation, in the form of particles, because of quantum mechanical effects near the event horizon.

From Scientific American • Nov. 30, 2022

Researchers have been pursuing the development of computers that exploit quantum mechanical effects since the 1990s, because of their potential to vastly expand the performance of conventional computers.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2015

As for "Cronos," a low-budget Mexican vampire movie that blends the Hammer Films Poe adaptations of the '60s with some seriously weird mechanical effects, it might seem tame after "Santa Sangre."

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2011

The mechanical effects upon the soil from growing crimson clover on it are very marked, especially when it inclines to stiffness, owing to the strong development of the root growth.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas