Word Finder - sputtering

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To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

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To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.

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To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

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To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.

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To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

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A noise that sputters.

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The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.

The icy water robbed her of breath and she came up sputtering and treading water.

She was a few feet into the lake, coughing and sputtering.

Thin films of such a material will be deposited using magnetron sputtering.

The basis of the project is that Plasma Quest Ltd will supply a laboratory scale sputtering system to the University of York.

Our films are manufactured using a state of the art sputtering process which applies metal alloys to the base film.

Then you will soon hear it sputtering away, mad to be made into tea.

This project aims to evaluate the performance of a novel sputtering technology owned by PQL for applications in information storage technologies.

The NanoTest was used to investigate diamond-like carbon films on silicon which were prepared by magnetron sputtering from a graphite target.

A common scenario, especially for people that have owned their vehicle beyond 30,000 miles, is that the engine suddenly starts sputtering or behaving erratically at certain speeds or entirely.