Word Meanings - SEMIFLUID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imperfectly fluid. -- n.

FLUID
Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
FLUIDAL
Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
FLUIDRACHM
See S
FLUIDITY
The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
FLUIDIZE
To render fluid.
FLUIDOUNCE
See FLUID
FLUIDNESS
The state of being flluid; fluidity.
PASTEUR'S FLUID
An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
SEMIFLUID
Imperfectly fluid. -- n.
MARGARYIZE; MARGARY'S FLUID
To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate .
ELECTROPOION; ELECTROPOION FLUID
An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution