mechanical suspension
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Hence, the settling of such particles, if in mechanical suspension, would be measurable, although very slow.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
The materials carried in mechanical suspension are clay, sand, and vegetable matter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
Our American rivers contain from 2 to 6 grains of saline matter to the gallon in solution, and a varying quantity—generally exceeding 10 grains to the gallon—in mechanical suspension.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
In the second group the coloring substances are present in a finely divided or colloidal state; that is, the coloring is due to the presence of particles in mechanical suspension.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
The phenomena certainly occur as if our atmosphere were a medium rendered slightly turbid by the mechanical suspension of exceedingly small foreign particles.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
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