Fluids
['flʊɪd]
Examples
- Biot on the action of fluids on light, he placed the fluids in a trough formed by two plates of glass cemented together at an angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These machines use some 2,500 gallons of lubricating oils and 11,000 gallons of cutting fluids each day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician (1577-1644), was the first to apply the term, _gas_ to the elastic fluids which resemble air in physical properties. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Glass, water and other solids and fluids each have different powers of refraction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Later he learned to locate the cause within himself, and constructed the theory that the fluids of the body had become disordered. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Preston