The Latin word depositio came into Spanish as deposition . The first meaning mentioned by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in its dictionary refers to the declaration or display of something.
A paper , a lecture , a speech , and a verbal statement in court may be referred to as depositions. For example: "The defendant's deposition in front of the judge was followed closely by the victim's relatives," "According to the opposition leader, the president's deposition was full of fallacies," "In a while it will be my turn to depose." before investors .
The degradation of a dignity or a job , on the other hand, can also be designated as deposition. This type of deposition is a penalty imposed to remove an individual from the position and/or honors they held.
In the field of physics , the transformation of a gaseous substance into a solid is called deposition. This is a change of state also known as desublimation , regressive sublimation or reverse sublimation , since it can be said that deposition is the inverse process of sublimation. We can say that it is a phase change (matter evolves between more than one state of aggregation without changing its composition) exothermic (it is a chemical reaction that releases energy).
This change of state is a thermodynamic process , a physical concept that is defined as the evolution that some thermodynamic magnitudes go through in relation to a given system. Within physics we also find thermodynamics , one of its branches, which focuses on the study of the relationships between heat and other forms of energy.
Returning to the thermodynamic process, the transformations that occupy your interest must take place starting from one state of equilibrium to another; In other words, both the initial and final points must have perfect definition, regardless of what happens in the transition stage. It can be stated, on the other hand, that this transformation is the result of eliminating the necessary bonds between two systems after they have interacted to achieve a new equilibrium, whether material, thermal or mechanical .
In a previous paragraph we mentioned that sublimation is considered the reverse of deposition. This is because it is the transformation that a solid goes through when it passes into a gaseous state. It should be noted that it must not become liquid during this change in order to speak of sublimation. In other words, it must be a direct passage between both states.
One of the most used examples to facilitate the understanding of deposition in the field of physics is the process by which water vapor is transformed into ice directly in subfrozen air, without going through a liquid state. In this way, snow or frost is generated, in the clouds or the ground respectively. You can also think of the type of deposition that is used for the deposit of certain thin films on various surfaces, although in this case it is an artificial one.
For geology , deposition is a process that consists of the aggregation of material to a terrain or a geographical feature . Water and wind are two factors of deposition.
Deposition, finally, is the act and result of deposing : evacuating the belly . This action involves discharging excrement (fecal matter) through the anus.
Stools are the final product of digestion . They are made up of the remains of food that were not absorbed by the body and various cells.