viscosity
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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
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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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Chemistry - Introductory
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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