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viscousness

/vis-kuhs/US // ˈvɪs kəs //UK // (ˈvɪskəs) //

粘性,黏性,粘稠度,粘滞性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.
    • : having the property of viscosity.

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Examples

  • He proposed that the continents might be floating like rafts atop a layer of viscous, partially molten rocks deep inside Earth.

  • By 2015, the stream of papers had turned into a torrent, and since then there’s been a veritable flood of research on biomolecular condensates, these liquid-like cell compartments with both elastic and viscous properties.

  • The dirtiest oil, like the viscous stuff from Canada’s tar sands, has to be steamed out of the ground and heavily refined before being shipped off to the coast.

  • A more viscous disk would tear like how Kraus and colleagues propose, but a less viscous disk needs a planet to break apart, she says.

  • What’s more, the vortex can untwist itself, twisting the viscous medium around it as it does so.

  • What The Great Beauty and Fellini share is the Roman light—3,000 years of viscous sun.

  • These comments will likely be much more viscous/personal/sexual in nature than those bombing your male colleagues.

  • Plus there was a secondary sheen on the water that was more viscous.

  • Black gays, in turn, are accusing their white gay peers of viscous racism.

  • Besides these threads, small knots are seen rising in different places; they are viscous, and easily dissolved by heat.

  • Probably it is a gas so viscous that it would resist motion as pitch or putty does.

  • It is much less fusible than ordinary soda-glass, and passes through a longer intermediate or viscous stage when heated.

  • In amplexus the members of a pair sometimes become glued together by their viscous dermal secretions.

  • A viscous precipitate forms which frequently loses its viscosity when heat is applied.