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- See
entrainment for other types.
In
engineering, entrainment is the entrapment of one substance by another substance.
[1] For example:
- The entrapment of
liquid droplets or
solid particulates in a flowing
gas, as with
smoke.
- The entrapment of gas bubbles or solid particulates in a flowing liquid, as with
aeration.
- Given two mutually insoluble liquids, the
emulsion of droplets of one liquid into the other liquid, as with
margarine.
- Given two gases, the entrapment of one gas into the other gas.
- "
Air entrainment" – The intentional entrapment of air bubbles into concrete.
-
Entrainment defect in metallurgy, as a result of folded pockets of oxide inside the melt.
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