mechanical suspension

American  

noun

1. suspension6

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Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various

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

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various

These are the only certain examples of natural combinations of the metal, the minute, though economically valuable, quantity often found in pyrites and other sulphides being probably only present in mechanical suspension.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Hence, the settling of such particles, if in mechanical suspension, would be measurable, although very slow.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred