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superlubricant

noun

Etymology

From super- + lubricant.

  1. borrowed from lūbricātus
  2. formed as lubricant — “lubricate + -ant”
  3. prefixed as superlubricant — “super + lubricant”

Definitions

  1. A chemical designed to render a surface nearly frictionless.

    • The poor lubricity means that the fuel flow must be dosed with a superlubricant and herein lies the root of the problem with naphtha firing.
    • Adhesives or superlubricants liberally applied on seaports, air base runways, highway intersections, steep railway grades, key bridges, and other bottlenecks could impede enemy military traffic or bring it to a standstill.
    • Figure 19 compares the two AES spectra, which show clearly the absence of oxygen and carbon on the outer surfaces of the wear scars of the superlubricant MoS₂, in contrast to the commercial coating which contained both carbon and oxygen.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA