semisolid

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In July regulators will publish new standards, including definitions for what constitutes a semisolid, a “solid-liquid” or all solid-state battery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

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.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2022

In 2004, a clam dredging company in New Jersey unearthed an artillery shell filled with mustard agent in its semisolid, tar-like form.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2017

The entire process takes about 4 to 8 seconds for solid or semisolid food, and about 1 second for very soft food and liquids.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

A small quantity of semisolid fatty oil is obtained from the seeds by pressure.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William