viscoid
UK/ˈvɪs.kɔɪd/
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Australia/ˈvɪs.koɪd/
viscoid adjective: composed of viscoid (a powered amorphous form of cellulose). Also the misconstruction of viscous.
Adjective
viscoid (not comparable)
- Composed of viscoid (a powered amorphous form of cellulose).
- Derived from viscose (a liquid made from cellulose).
- Describing a type of motion involving the hydrodynamics of viscous fluids intermixing.
- Laws of Glacier-Motion.—The term differential motion is a condensed expression for all the laws of glacier-motion. It asserts that the different parts of a glacier do not move together as a solid, but move among themselves in the manner of a fluid. A glacier moves like a fluid, though a very stiff...1902, Joseph Le Conte, “Chapter II: Aqueous agencies”, in Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader, 4th edition, D. Appleton and Company, page 59
Noun
viscoid (usually uncountable, plural viscoids)
- A powdered amorphous form of cellulose.
- One of us observed that anhydrous cellulose rose in temperature whilst taking up moisture from the atmosphere, and that this rise of temperature appeared to have some relation to the increase in weight (Nature, xlix., 457; and Chemical News, Ixxi., 1). The above experiments were done with...1896 April 17, Clayton Beadle, O.W. Dahl, “Increase in temperature of cellulose on absorption of atmospheric moisture”, in Chemical News, volume 73, number 1899, page 180
Also used as
viscoid is also the misconstruction of viscous.
Examples of viscoid in a sentence
- A glacier moves like a fluid, though a very stiff, viscous fluid; its motion may therefore be rightly called viscoid.1902, Joseph Le Conte, “Chapter II: Aqueous agencies”, in Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader, 4th...
- This is true with cellulose in the fibrous form, such as cotton, as well as with viscoids.1896 April 17, Clayton Beadle, O.W. Dahl, “Increase in temperature of cellulose on absorption of atmospheric moisture”, in Chemical News...
Forms of viscoid
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Origin of viscoid
By surface analysis, visco- + -oid; evidently independently coined several times by several scientists in the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries.
Words that rhyme with viscoid
Questions about viscoid
- What does viscoid mean?
- Viscoid means composed of viscoid (a powered amorphous form of cellulose).
- How do you use viscoid in a sentence?
- A glacier moves like a fluid, though a very stiff, viscous fluid; its motion may therefore be rightly called viscoid.
- What part of speech is viscoid?
- Viscoid can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce viscoid?
- Viscoid is pronounced /ˈvɪs.kɔɪd/ (UK).
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