mechanical suspension

American  

noun

1. suspension6

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Example Sentences

This rock was once a powder, more or less coarse, held in mechanical suspension by water.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. 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

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

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

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