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viscosity

[vi-skos-i-tee] / vɪˈskɒs ɪ ti /


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The researchers had anticipated that viscosity would primarily function as a physical obstacle.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Researchers therefore needed a way to isolate the effects of fluid viscosity from other mechanical influences and determine whether extended exposure produces lasting changes in glioblastoma cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Water has relatively low viscosity and pours easily, while honey and tar are much more viscous and move slowly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

If the viscosity of those fluids changed too much, these processes could become severely disrupted.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

At lower viscosities, the liquids could not be broken because the testing equipment could not stretch them fast enough.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 30, 2026

The team then tested the stability of the lava under a range of speeds, viscosities, and layer thicknesses.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 9, 2023

Break it in two at room temperature and its various layers will stretch and ooze at different delicious viscosities.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018

As you might expect, the viscosities of gases are much less than those of liquids, and these viscosities are often temperature dependent.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Further experiments showed that this is also true of the second mixture, as the viscosities of the following mixtures illustrate: Strength of Solution. η Z. C. 80 per cent.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various


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