viscidity

[ UK /vɪsˈɪdɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of being cohesive and sticky
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How To Use viscidity In A Sentence

  • The newborn worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
  • As when one school of physicians sought for the universal principle of all disease in “lentor and morbid viscidity of the blood,” and imputing most bodily derangements to mechanical obstructions, thought to cure them by mechanical remedies; (257) while another, the chemical school, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • A fabric structure is constructed having a fabric base sheet, a viscidity layer, a polymeric back layer, and a protective layer.
  • Viscidity of hydrolyze amylodextrin was lower than it was original corn starch.
  • In the great group of the Vandeæ, relative position of parts, friction, viscidity, elastic and hygrometric movements were all found to be nicely related to one end -- the aid of insects in fertilisation. Life of Charles Darwin
  • Great tails lashed in frenzied anger about us, razor-like talons cut our limbs and bodies, and a green and sticky syrup, such as oozes from a crushed caterpillar, smeared us from head to foot, for every cut and thrust of our long-swords brought spurts of this stuff upon us from the severed arteries of the plant men, through which it courses in its sluggish viscidity in lieu of blood. The Gods of Mars
  • The adhesive properties of bitumen determine its viscidity and adhesive properties.
  • The granules are very uniform in size and dissolubility is very high with a viscidity of 61.5.
  • Then add 2 egg whites and tapioca/corn starch for viscidity within the mixture. Archive 2005-08-01
  • They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera. Travels through France and Italy
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