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The motility and energetics of sperm were less influenced by fluid flow in environments with lower viscosities.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

The team then tested the stability of the lava under a range of speeds, viscosities, and layer thicknesses.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 9, 2023

Break it in two at room temperature and its various layers will stretch and ooze at different delicious viscosities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2018

As you might expect, the viscosities of gases are much less than those of liquids, and these viscosities are often temperature dependent.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

By diluting the new "maximum viscosity" solution, therefore, with the 10 per cent. solution of the gum arabic in fixed proportions we obtain a series of viscosities which are shown in the following curve.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various