Digestion Essay The path of digestion begins in the mouth when food is broken down mechanically, into smaller pieces, by the teeth and tongue. The complex carbohydrates found in the food are also broken down chemically with the help of the enzyme (ptyalin), found in saliva.
apparent viscosity. (fluid mechanics). The value obtained by applying the instrumental equations used in obtaining the viscosity of a Newtonian fluid to viscometer measurements of a non-Newtonian fluid. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.
specific viscosity. noun. 1. (physics) a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid, expressed as the ratio of the absolute viscosity of the fluid to that of a reference fluid (usually water in the case of liquids) Discover our greatest slideshows.