viscidity

Example Sentences

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Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

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 Darwin, Francis, Sir

It is a question, apparently, of removing a few atoms of dust or else some traces of viscidity that remain from the evil contact with the Snail.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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 Threlfall, Richard

If strength, elasticity, clearness, and perfect freedom from viscidity, be tests of excellence, then this product may be considered as equal to any other. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William