dropcast

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verb

To form a thin solid by dropping a solution onto a flat surface and evaporating the solvent

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbdropcast (third-person singular simple present dropcasts, present participle dropcasting, simple past and past participle dropcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) dropcasted)

present singular third person dropcasts · participle present dropcasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes dropcasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes dropcasted

  1. To form a thin solid by dropping a solution onto a flat surface and evaporating the solvent

    The NCs were dropcast on a glass substrate forming a close-packed film.

    2015 July 29, Sotirios Christodoulou et al., “Band structure engineering via piezoelectric fields in strained anisotropic CdSe/CdS nanocrystals”, in Nature Communications, volume 6, →DOI

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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