viscidity
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By mixing vaseline with paraffin a soft wax may be made of any desired degree of softness, and by dissolving vaseline in kerosene an insulating liquid of any degree of viscidity may be obtained.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
The viscidity, which it is now known, that both feldspar and quartz retain at a temperature much below their points of fusion, easily explains their mutual impressment.
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
The viscidity and specific gravity of milk are somewhat greater than that of water; but these properties vary somewhat in the milk procured from different individuals.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
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.
From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? or append some word to gland.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
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