SCIENCE TOPICS SCIENCE TOPICS Stress vs Strain Stress describes the force applied to a material (per unit area) from an external source, permanent deformations in the materials, and/or Drivers of Subduction: Slab-Pull & Ridge-Push Plate Tectonics is the process of creating new crust at mid-ocean ridges and recycling older, denser crust back into the interior X-Ray Powder Diffraction X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION is a process of identifying the crystal structure (i.e. atomic spacing) of a powder sample using x-rays. Rossby Number The Rossby Number describes the importance of the rotation of the frame on the flow. It is the ratio of Gas Chromatography Gas Chromatography is a method of analyzing an unknown liquid mixture by separating the components by boiling point 1. A « Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »