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  2. List of viscosities - Wikipedia

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    C 4 H 10: 7.49 T = 20 °C [8] Organohalides ... This is also the reason oils tend to be highly viscous, since they are usually composed of long-chain hydrocarbons ...

  3. Viscosity - Wikipedia

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    Viscosity is a measure of a fluid's rate-dependent resistance to a change in shape or to movement of its neighboring portions relative to one another. [1] For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of thickness; for example, syrup has a higher viscosity than water. [2]

  4. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...

  5. Viscous liquid - Wikipedia

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    Viscous flow in amorphous materials is characterised by deviations from the Arrhenius-type behaviour: the activation energy of viscosity Q changes from a high value Q H at low temperatures (in the glassy state) to a low value Q L at high temperatures (in the liquid state).

  6. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The ampersand (&) has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. [2] & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, as taught to children in the US and elsewhere. [vague] An example may be seen in M. B. Moore's 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. [3]

  7. Liquid crystal - Wikipedia

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    Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals.For example, a liquid crystal can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as in a solid.

  8. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    English contains, depending on dialect, 24–27 consonant phonemes and 13–20 vowels. However, there are only 26 letters in the modern English alphabet, so there is not a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. Many sounds are spelled using different letters or multiple letters, and for those words whose pronunciation is ...

  9. Quikscript - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet chart with names for all letters and ligatures. Each Quikscript letter represents a single English phoneme. There are 25 consonants and 15 vowels, making 40 letters in all. The letters are designed to be written easily, each requiring only one (usually curved) pen stroke.