sand pile
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Forbes explains how so many vortices might all unpin at once: “Like dropping sand onto a sand pile — nothing really happens until … you get a whole avalanche.”
From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2023
A sand pile or wall to hold back the rocks, meanwhile, would have to be 230 feet high to protect Brienz.
From Washington Times • May 12, 2023
The approach, with roots in the 18th century, describes the structure of networks of discrete, interacting parts, be they friends linked on social media or grains in a sand pile.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019
For example, assume a dry sand pile has an angle of repose of 30 degrees.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
In a sand pile near the Pennsylvania Railroad depot a horse's hind feet, rump and tail are all that can be seen of him.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
