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Definition of Semifluids
1. semifluid [n] - See also: semifluid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semifluids
Literary usage of Semifluids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"That Glaciers are semifluids is not an absurdity. The quantity of viscidity, or
imperfect mobility in the par- ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"That Glaciers are semifluids is not an absurdity. The quantity of viscidity, or
imperfect mobility in the par- ..."
3. The Sun by Charles Augustus Young (1895)
"accustomed to call the semifluids, should not be classed with them rather than
with the gases. The reply, of course, is, that although the ..."
4. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"Some of the heavier hydrocarbon mixtures are viscous, pasty semifluids; others
are black, brittle solids, which resemble coal in their outward appearance. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... remain unused, while fluids and semifluids lead the van of digestibles.
The tissues of young vegetables and young animals are for this reason more ..."
6. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"The theory is summed up in the following words:— " The whole phenomena in the
case of any of the semifluids I have mentioned (treacle, tar, &c. ..."
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