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Sticking coefficient is the term used in surface physics to describe the ratio of the number of adsorbate atoms (or molecules) that adsorb, or "stick"

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the binomial coefficients are the positive integers that occur as coefficients in the binomial theorem. Commonly, a binomial coefficient is indexed by

is one of the circus arts and is sometimes called devil-sticking, twirling, sticking, or stick juggling. Devil sticks are believed to have originated in

with a substrate surface. The interaction is characterized by the sticking coefficient, the fraction of incoming species thermally equilibrated with the

possess when they reach a solid surface. Radicals, instead, show high sticking coefficients for chemisorption, increasing the catalytic activity. Catalyst effects

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state at certain forces, causing a transition from sticking to slipping. On very smooth surfaces, stick–slip behavior may result from coupled phonons (at

covered by an adsorbate, such as oxygen sticking to fresh aluminum. If the adsorbate has a unity sticking coefficient, so that every molecule which reaches

the sticking probability is reflected by the size of the SD constant. These factors were included as part of a single constant termed a "sticking coefficient"