To create characterization in fiction or non-fiction, 1  Tell the reader directly what a character's personality is like: 2  Describe a character's appearance and manner: 3  Portray a character's thoughts and motivations:  Use dialogue to allow a character's words to reveal something important about his or her nature:
Cherniak (2010b) reviews diffusion in the accessory minerals zircon, monazite, apatite, and xenotime, phases important in geochronologic studies. Diffusion in other minerals, including carbonates, sulfide minerals, fluorite and diamond, is reviewed by Cherniak (2010c).
Osmosis is a special example of diffusion. It is the diffusion of a substance through a semipermeable membrane from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated solution. This process is also passive since no external energy is needed.