mechanical suspension

noun

The materials carried in mechanical suspension are clay, sand, and vegetable matter.

All natural waters are known to contain more or less mineral matter, partly held in solution and partly in mechanical suspension.

Such water is found charged with fine matter in a state of mechanical suspension.

This sandstone rock was once a powder held in mechanical suspension by water.

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