Rocks of eruption', which have issued from the interior of the earth either in a state of fusion from volcanic action, or in a more or less soft, viscous condition, from Plutonic action.
This is very nicely illustrated by the frog's egg, which has two layers of very viscous protoplasm one of which is black and one white.
It is, however, possible to prevent or retard this rotation of the highly viscous protoplasm, by compressing the eggs between horizontal glass plates.
Over this gravel-bed the viscous pitchstone-lava appears to have flowed, taking possession of the river-channel, and also of the beds of several small tributary streams which flowed into the channel of the Scuir.
Where the lava is highly fused its slope will be slight, but if in a viscous condition, successive outpourings from the orifice, unable to reach the base of the mountain, will tend to form a cone with increasing slope upwards.
Every fresh outburst of volcanic force, and every fresh extrusion of lava, tends to disturb it, and to alter the relations of the interiorviscous or molten magmas.
At the entrance of the Boat Cave we have a somewhat similar arrangement of the columns;[2] but at the Clam-shell Cave the prisms are curved, indicating some movement in the viscous mass before they had been fully consolidated.
Gaudin's experiments on the fusion of quartz, which show that silex, as it cools, has the property of remaining in a viscous state, whereas alumina never does.
Viscous matter seems also to have been shot into the air as volcanic bombs, which fell among the dust and broken crystals (that often form the ashes) before perfect cooling and consolidation had taken place.
This circumstance does strongly suggest cobwebs-- Unless we can accept that, in regions aloft, there are vast viscous or gelatinous areas, and that things passing through become daubed.
I refer to those which attach themselves, by means of hooks, or by viscous juices, to the coats of quadrupeds and the feathers of birds, and are thus transported wherever their living vehicles may chance to wander.
It is hollow, and encloses a transparent viscous liquid, in which very small granules are observed, which appear to be the result of digestion.
These eggs are, in the lobster, arranged in packets, which are attached to the lower surface of the tail, to which they are connected by a viscous substance.
The clutch throwout bearing should be lubricated with one ounce of light viscous grease[A] every 500 miles.
In the first the colours or pigments are mixed with a viscous or glutinous fluid to bind them, and make them adhere to the body which is to be painted.
Another kind consists in previously washing over the parts that are to be painted with some viscous substance, and then laying on the colours as the figures may require.
Chemical research may have something to say on the subject, if it be directed to comparison of brain and spermatophore in the nautilus, to the viscous binding of the bee's fecundative liquid.
The form of the penis and the manner in which the sperm is coagulated by a viscous liquid into a veritable spermatophore, cause the death of the male.
It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but becomeviscous on cooling.
Defn: A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance.
A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
Defn: A thick, black, viscousliquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc.
Defn: The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
A flattened cake of viscous glass-enamel is welded on to one side of the mass of glass after it has been hollowed by blowing.
So that although in many respects ice behaves as a viscous fluid the comparison with such a fluid is not perfect.
In the viscous state a mass of glass can be coiled upon the heated end of an iron rod, and if the rod is hollow can be blown into a hollow bulb.
The viscous mass having been thrown on the casting-table, a large and heavy roller passes over it and spreads it out into a sheet.
So extensible is viscous glass that it can be drawn out into a filament sufficiently fine and elastic to be woven into a fabric.
The adjective "glairy" is used of substances having the viscous and transparent consistency of the white of an egg.
It is a curious property of viscous glass that whatever form is given to the mass of glass before it is drawn out is retained by the finished cane or tube, however small its section may be.
It was hoped that by taking from the body of the worm the viscous matter contained in the glands, silk could be formed.
This rising is assisted by the viscous nature of the fluid, and above all, by the globules it contains.
The viscoussubstance contained in the glands must then be elaborated by the insect itself.
When she has found this place, she ejects an egg covered with a viscous liquid, which causes it to adhere to the body upon which it falls.
He threw her roughly to the ground, for the meaning of the viscoussplash was plain.
He was in command; it was up to him-- The moment of indecision ended as a mass of viscous fluid splashed heavily against the ship.
The core was cooling, so that now a viscoussurface was here with the gas flames dead.
Harkness, fearing another discharge of the nauseating, viscous liquid, withdrew with the others far back in the cave.
Ice has some of the properties of a viscous substance.
We have seen that ice possesses certain viscous or semi-fluidic properties and that it will yield to pressure, but if we put it under sufficient tensional strain it snaps like glass or any other brittle substance.
It is a whitish and scaly Tumour rais'd in the Skin of the Head by a viscous and mixt Phlegm, having its Root in the bottom of the Skin.
It is produc'd by a viscous and mucilaginous sort of Phlegm; whence it happens that the Print of the Fingers remains in those places that have been press'd.
That the two first sorts are made of a matter easily resoluble, the least shaking or touch turning them in into a viscous and aqueous matter; which falling from the shell, stuck to the Observers fingers, and shone there for the space of 20.
He knew that he could feel the thump of a heavier heart, circulating relatively more viscous fluids.
And then they found his body in a rectangular, plastic-covered tank, submerged in a cloudy, viscous fluid.
Loud had been sung his praises during the fiesta that followed, while the viscous thief, corralled with bamboo poles, both eyes gouged out, died slowly beneath the sun, upon the baking strand.
With somnambulant rigidity he placed the stick in the viscous stuff and slowly rotated it once, as if tentatively; then once more, determinedly; then again, with a sort of rage.
The whole earth softened, dissolved; it rolled through eternity, a silent, viscous ball of ooze spattering the stars.
His ribs stood out like the ribs of a long-stranded derelict; his legs were puffed up as big as barrels, and a viscous fluid oozed from his nostrils.
Bousfield has calculated the sizes of ions on the assumption that Stokes's theory of the motion of a small sphere through a viscous medium might be applied (Zeits.
Having the quality of beingviscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
Pure muriatic acid colours good wheat flour of a deep violet, but dissolves fecula or starch, and forms with it a light, colourless, viscous fluid, decomposable by alkalis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viscous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
