semisolid

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In July regulators will publish new standards, including definitions for what constitutes a semisolid, a “solid-liquid” or all solid-state battery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Roughly 90 percent of quakes on Earth are produced by the movement of tectonic plates, massive slabs of the planet’s lithosphere that slide around atop the semisolid asthenosphere layer and occasionally bump into one another.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2022

Its description was a little baffling: a dumpling-like concoction of creamed pike fish made semisolid with an egg-based binding agent.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2019

In 2004, a clam dredging company in New Jersey unearthed an artillery shell filled with mustard agent in its semisolid, tar-like form.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2017

Cysts may be true or false tumors and consist of a capsule containing a fluid or semisolid content.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry