liquid state


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Noun1.liquid state - the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
state of matter, state - (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container); "the solid state of water is called ice"
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These gases have passed into a liquid state under different influences, and the solid masses have been formed later.
Crupp, after some difficulty, consented to warm up; and it shrunk so much in a liquid state, that we found it what Steerforth called 'rather a tight fit' for four.
Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs.
As this plateau is, in its very nature, highly volcanic, and as asphalt is a substance which one associates with Plutonic forces, I cannot doubt that it exists in the free liquid state, and that the creatures may have come in contact with it.
I remember having been much struck with the evidence of denudation, when viewing volcanic islands, which have been worn by the waves and pared all round into perpendicular cliffs of one or two thousand feet in height; for the gentle slope of the lava-streams, due to their formerly liquid state, showed at a glance how far the hard, rocky beds had once extended into the open ocean.
We believe it had a very thick atmosphere, it had water and liquid state," Hessa Al Matrooshi, science lead of Data Analysis and Management of EMM at the MBRSC, told Khaleej Times.
This information can be extended to engineer enzymes for biodegradation of novel solvents known as ionic liquids, which are salt in a liquid state. The end goal will be to train high school chemistry and biology teachers and aspiring teachers from the OSUTeach program in using molecular editing and visualization tools and teaching undergraduate students how to utilize computation and visualization in their courses.
The chocolate was at a liquid state of 120 degrees and was also biodegradable, according to (https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-01-15/truck-spills-40-000-pounds-of-liquid-chocolate-on-arizona-highway) U.S.
2 Allow the soap to slowly melt into a liquid state, then remove it from the heat and add the oil.
So, in the presence of metal ions, such as iron or copper, anaerobic adhesives remain in a liquid state until they are isolated from oxygen.
Pure liquid water would either freeze or evaporate away on Mars, but salty water, or brines, could remain in a liquid state at or just below the surface of the planet, the authors said.