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Glossary: N
Here you are going to find explications of important terms in plasma technology:
- neon lamp
- Most popular plasma application.
- neutron
- Chemically uncharged particle that was detected by Chadwick in 1932 (symbol: n; mass = 1.67·10-27 kg).
- nonstick-coating
- A nonstick-coating prevents fluids from sticking to surfaces. Such coatings have a very low surface tension, so that substances simply drip off. There are kinds of nonstick-coatings that obtain this effect because of their surface's structure (micro structuring - lotuseffect), and such with an especially nonpolar surface. Plasma-coating is a way to change the wettability, for synthetics in particular; nonstick-coating always brings about an enlargement of the contact angle between fluid and surface.
- nucleon
- Collective name for the nucleus components proton and neutron. These are decomposable in fusion plasmas only.
