conduction

I now know this was a conduction-style vaporizer, which requires a chamber to hold the steam.

But a few decades ago this same ability to disrupt nerve conduction led to a medical use: deliberate, targeted paralysis.

This small gap is a place of bad conduction and of the piling up of atoms, producing heat, burning, light.

With regard to the conduction of sound—it is to be noted that sound is carried astonishingly far by means of compact bodies.

There is also a trophic differentiation, the fibres undertaking special functions of nutrition (the conduction of the sap).

The whole question of conduction of electricity through the earth is very perplexing.

The transmission in the petiole of Mimosa is a phenomenon of conduction.