English edit

Etymology edit

micro- +‎ porosity

Noun edit

microporosity (countable and uncountable, plural microporosities)

  1. The state of being microporous
    • 1997 October 17, Gautam R. Desiraju, “SOLID-STATE CHEMISTRY: Crystal Gazing: Structure Prediction and Polymorphism”, in Science[1], volume 278, number 5337, →DOI, pages 404–405:
      But microporosity is not the only beneficial property in the world of solids and the design of crystal structures of small organic molecules remains an attractive research area with considerable intellectual challenge and potentialities for further applications as materials ( 20 ).