solids

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Missing the 20% minimum threshold for cocoa solids in a bar, Nestle had to change the labeling, according to a spokesperson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Urine is stored in a tank and is vented out each day; solids are stored in canisters designed to control odor and gas buildup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Ashley said biodegradable bags could also help, adding that food recycling was for solids only, not for milk or sauces.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

However, lithium ions move more slowly through solids, and past efforts to speed them up often depended on costly metals or complicated manufacturing techniques.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026

It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton