mechanical suspension

American  

noun

1. suspension6

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Example Sentences

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

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

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 Tyndall, John

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 Luckiesh, Matthew

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