viscosityin a sentence
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In simple terms, 10W-30 grade oil means the oil has a viscosity grade of 10 in winter conditions and 30 in summer conditions.
viscosity = the measure of a liquid's resistance to flow
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She demonstrated how a superfluid has no viscosity. The liquid climbed up and over the walls of the beaker holding it.
viscosity = resistance to flowing
- Modern motor oil has polymer additives to keep its viscosity from changing too much at different temperatures.
- —above all, the Deep Woods variety, whose bitter flavor and greasy viscosity came to signify something as essential as food or water: a day unmauled by deerflies, a night of refuge from mosquitoes.† (source)
- The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity.† (source)
- As a gas it exhibits surface tension and viscosity, like mercury.† (source)
- The less time, the more friction, difficulty, and viscosity.† (source)
- "Very high viscosity you are looking at," Dr. Chu said.† (source)
- It had the viscosity of axle grease.† (source)
- Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down.† (source)
- Viscosity flattens the effervescence of panic.† (source)
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- Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination.† (source)
- Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same.† (source)
- Part of the mute paralysis of viscosity comes from knowing every detail of what's ahead and having to wait for its arrival.† (source)
- Viscosity occurs on a cellular level.† (source)
- In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and commenting on its own behavior.† (source)
- Velocity vs. Viscosity.† (source)
- The primary problem was an unnoticed concentration of low-density, low-viscosity impurities that remained at the center of the silica.† (source)
- Viscosity neither too high nor too low.† (source)
- …. continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity; referred to the liquor in which the detached and ripened eggs were kept;† (source)
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