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  • noun Plural form of viscosity.

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Examples

  • The difference between success and failure often depends on details, such as the quality of the skin pieces, processing times of enzymes, and liquid viscosities.

    Skin From A Factory | Impact Lab 2009

  • I use there Boiled Oils which come in 3 viscosities and they are great, the extra-high is like honey or thicker, you can make some interesting mediums with all 3 of these stand oils.

    Paint Brand Poll Results James Gurney 2008

  • The minimal scale estimate and examples make it very clear why low resolution Coupled Climate Models necessarily use viscosities that are orders of magnitude too large.

    Solar Proxies « Climate Audit 2007

  • NS equations are not chaotic, it just takes sufficient resolution to correctly compute the smallest scale for large Reynolds numbers or small kinematic viscosities.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • Theoretical analysis based on measured glass viscosities shows that glass should not deform significantly even over many centuries, and a clear link is found between types of deformation in the glass and the way it was produced.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • NS equations are not chaotic, it just takes sufficient resolution to correctly compute the smallest scale for large Reynolds numbers or small kinematic viscosities.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • DNS computations for the 2D, viscous, incompressible NS equations in a doubly periodic domain have been carried out for kinematic viscosities down to sizes typically considered reasonable for real fluids.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • Rhasis and [1360] Magninus discommend all fish, and say, they breed viscosities, slimy nutriment, little and humorous nourishment.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Having quite high viscosities near a jet might be very realistic and physically correct.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007

  • If we look at a 1d steady, fully developed laminar flow problem the analysis can be solved analytically for a wide variety of viscosities as a function of depth.

    Guliya Core #2 and Mountain Glacier Flow « Climate Audit 2006

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