viscosity

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By lowering the melting point and viscosity of mantle rocks, the water helped drive internal circulation and plate motion, giving the planet long-term geological energy.

From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025

“It’s a rich, thick vanilla. I like the viscosity of it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

The maxim that blood is thicker than water may hold true in a laboratory viscosity test, but human relationships are far more complicated, and estrangement is commonplace.

From Salon • May 10, 2025

He said it could allow scientists "to make more informed estimates of some important material properties, such as the viscosity of the inner core, which is one of the least known quantities in modern science".

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025

A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols