mechanical suspension

American  

noun

1. suspension6

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Example Sentences

But the case is entirely changed when the ocean contains solid particles in a state of mechanical suspension, capable of sending the light impinging on them back to the eye.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John

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

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

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

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

This constant motion may easily be conceived to keep the particles uniformly distributed throughout the liquid, just as constant shaking would keep those of a mechanical suspension uniformly distributed through the mixture.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred