compacted

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The fibers are then compacted even more tightly to fit inside the nucleus.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

Fill and soil are compacted onto the slab and topped with several layers of asphalt.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Dozens of schools have been closed across the north-west of England this week since a flurry of snow turned to compacted ice.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025

Beneath the carpet is a concrete slab that rests on earth that was compacted twenty years ago by heavy machinery.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman