solids

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Superionic materials are unusual because they behave partly like solids and partly like liquids.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

Urine is stored in a tank and is vented out each day; solids are stored in canisters designed to control odor and gas buildup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

When stretched, solids elongate until they reach a critical stress point, then break suddenly in a process known as brittle fracture.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

They also measure the total dissolved solids, which is the combined contents of all organic and inorganic substances, such as minerals, in water.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

With five Euclidean solids to play with, and one sphere inside the innermost solid as well as one outside the outermost solid, this defined six spheres—one for each of the orbits of the planets.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin