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Hydrogels have unique water-absorbing properties that give them a jellylike consistency resembling biological tissue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2023
It was instead, Zimmer writes, “a jellylike byproduct of chemical reactions that took place in the jars” in which the ocean-floor samples were stored.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2021
Dr. Haygood scraped a smoothie-like mixture of freshly-ground shipworm, which also contained the bacteria from inside its body, and spread it in zigzagging lines into petri dishes and tubes filled with a jellylike medium.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2020
“The spacecraft was a yellowish sphere that eventually melted away to a stringy, viscous substance. The alien is a blue, jellylike object approximately the size of a family sofa.”
From Slate ● Feb. 29, 2020
There was a hawking sound, and something tepid and jellylike landed on the back of Turner’s hand.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
