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Recent Examples of semisolidUnderneath the crust is the mantle, an 1,800-mile-thick layer of semisolid silicate materials ranging in temperature from 1,800 degrees to 6,700 degrees Fahrenheit.—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025 The resulting semisolid curds and clear whey are further manipulated for different kinds of tofu.—Andrea Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023 Bologna is a semisolid meat product made from one or more livestock sources, most commonly beef or pork, and may contain poultry meat.—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2015 Thick semisolid formulas, gel deodorants go on wet and dry quickly for complete and lasting protection.—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 June 2022 Roughly 90 percent of quakes on Earth are produced by the movement of tectonic plates, massive slabs of the planet’s lithosphere that slide around atop the semisolid asthenosphere layer and occasionally bump into one another.—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 24 May 2022 Petroleum jelly, which is also known as petrolatum and was first sold by Vaseline, is a white or yellowish semisolid substance made up of a mixture of complex hydrocarbons by dewaxing crude oil.—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021 Probably to help conserve water, most birds put their excess nitrogen exclusively into uric acid, which is much less soluble than urea and so can be excreted as a semisolid paste along with wastes from the digestive tract.—Harold McGee, Wired, 6 Nov. 2020 Patients ingest Palforzia, which is a powder made from peanuts, by mixing it with small amounts of semisolid food like applesauce, yogurt or pudding.—Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2020
The line spread test measures the distance a liquid or semiliquid flows across a flat surface.
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Science & Food,
Discover Magazine,
30 July 2013
These pieces, divided between older continental crust and younger oceanic crust, ride atop the gooey asthenosphere, a semiliquid layer of magma and partly melted rock.
The rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane and is designed to be partially reusable, as Blue Origin aims to launch, land and re-launch each booster as many as 25 times.
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Michael Sheetz,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
Even if valuations are not at their peak, year one of the Trump Administration may offer the best opportunity to get liquid.
Medline Industries, a medical supply company controlled by Blackstone, Carlyle, and Hellman & Friedman, has reportedly filed confidentially to raise $5 billion.
Before pruning the rest of the tree, sanitize your pruners by dipping the blades into a diluted bleach solution or a cup of 70% isopropyl alcohol.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Jan. 2025
Unlike human identities managed by centralized IAM systems, NHIs are often created ad hoc by various teams, leading to inconsistent governance and diluted accountability.
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