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  2. Quicksand - Wikipedia

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    Quicksand (also known as sinking sand) is a colloid consisting of fine granular material (such as sand, silt or clay) and water. It forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly agitated. It forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly agitated.

  3. Soil liquefaction - Wikipedia

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    Quicksand forms when water saturates an area of loose sand, and the sand is agitated. When the water trapped in the batch of sand cannot escape, it creates liquefied soil that can no longer resist force. Quicksand can be formed by standing or (upwards) flowing underground water (as from an underground spring), or by earthquakes.

  4. Quicksand (David Bowie song) - Wikipedia

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    The song was released as the B-side of the single "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" in April 1974.RCA included the song in the picture disc set Life Time.. An impromptu hotel room performance of the song, recorded in San Francisco in February 1971, was released for the first time in 2022 on the multi-disc box set Divine Symmetry: The Journey to Hunky Dory. [10]

  5. Non-Newtonian fluid - Wikipedia

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    Quicksand is a shear thinning non-Newtonian colloid that gains viscosity at rest. Quicksand's non-Newtonian properties can be observed when it experiences a slight shock (for example, when someone walks on it or agitates it with a stick), shifting between its gel and sol phase and seemingly liquefying, causing objects on the surface of the ...

  6. Quicksand doesn't just happen in Hollywood. It happened on a ...

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    It turns out that quicksand, known as supersaturated sand, is a real thing around the world, even in Maine, far from the jungle locations where Hollywood has used it to add drama by ensnaring actors.

  7. Quicksand (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    "Quicksand", 2019 song by X Ambassadors from Orion; Other art, entertainment, and media. Quicksand, a 1989 Parker Brothers board game; Quicksand ...

  8. We need to talk about 'Quicksand's truly wild ending - AOL

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    Quicksand has been a silent, gloopy threat in movies for decades now. It claims a desert victim in Lawrence of Arabia, it almost sucks Alan (Robin Williams) down through the floorboards in Jumanji ...

  9. Natural beauty products: What does the label really mean? - AOL

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    To try and define "nature" is, to use a variety of hackneyed natural metaphors, to stir up a hornet's nest, or to stumble into a quagmire, to step into a snakepit, or, maybe more to the point, to ...