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).
Water and mineral salts enter a plant through special cells called. cells. The water is taken up by a special form of diffusion called. , but the mineral salts (ions) may also be taken up by active transport which uses some of the plant's energy to concentrate them. Xylem vessels carry water and minerals on into the plant, but only in an. direction.