rarefaction N
- rarefaction
- rozrzedzenie nt
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Mechanical longitudinal waves are also called compressional waves or compression waves, because they produce compression and rarefaction when traveling through a medium.
en.wikipedia.org Like compression, which can travel in waves (sound waves, for instance), rarefaction waves also exist in nature.
en.wikipedia.org Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression.
en.wikipedia.org The flier disc loses impact energy at its sides to rarefaction waves, but a conical volume of explosive is efficiently shock compressed.
en.wikipedia.org Today, rarefaction has grown as a technique not just for measuring species diversity, but of understanding diversity at higher taxonomic levels as well.
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