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The boat bumped against a solid object.

But that would only be liquid and solid broccoli.

On a solid planet with a hydrosphere and an atmosphere, only a tiny fraction of the planetary mass flows as surface fluids.

Among the most elegant and enduring of Roman structures based on the arch is the Pont du Gard at Nimes, France, built about 15 c.e. when the empire was nearing its farthest expansion. At this time, industry, commerce, and agri­culture were at their peak. Roman engineering was applied to an ambitious system of public-works projects, not just in Italy but in the outlying areas as well. The Pont du Gard functioned as an aqueduct, a structure meant to trans- port water, and its lower level served as a footbridge across the river. That it stands today virtually intact after nearly two thousand years (and is crossed by cyclists on the route of the famous Tour de France bicycle race) testifies to the Romans’ brilliant engineering skills. Visually, the Pont du Gard exemplifies the best qualities of arch construction. Solid and heavy, obviously durable, it is shot through with open spaces that make it seem light and its weight-bearing capa­bilities effortless.

So more solid substances are available to clump into protoplanets, right?

Precisely! So the solid cores of the gas giants could conceivably have formed by accretion.

It would rapidly pull in more and more gas from the accretion disk, so you end up with a solid core of rock, metal and ice surrounded by massive amounts of gas.

The disk instability theory holds that gas begins the planet-making process, without a solid core.

We believe solid particles probably made up just one percent of the outer accretion disk.

Below that was the final zone in Forbes's scheme, zone nine, a zone that covered most of the ocean floor and thus most of the solid surface of Earth: Forbes called this the azoic zone, where no animal, to say nothing of plants, could survive.

Well, to get to anything from that long ago, we would have to drill down to about a mile, about 1.6 kilometers of solid ice that covers the area today.

As Tammy implied, the penny looks like it's solid copper.

The penny's not solid copper.

The same is true for soil, which is a mixture of solid materials.

But if you magnify it, you can see that there are tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the air.

Dirty water is water that has suspended solid matter in it.

A complex sequence of chemical reactions is involved in converting the original solid organic matter to oil and gas, and additional chemical changes may occur in the oil and gas even after they have formed.

And this is especially true for solid organic waste: food scraps from home or food processing plants, waste from farms, that sort of thing.

Now, in the past, researchers have attempted to treat solid organic waste with that same equipment.

In order to process the solid waste, the kind we find in landfills, you had to pretreat the solids to turn them into sludge.

But APS digestion is designed specifically to handle solid waste.

The stores are packed solid at this time of year.

He designed a guitar with a solid body that relied solely on electronics.

Paul’s solid body eliminated the vibrations, and thus the distortions.

These chains seem fairly solid.

The original tokens (circa 8500 B.C.E.) were three-dimensional solid shapes—tiny spheres, cones, disks, and cylinders.

For example, in traditional architecture, stone or brick walls served a structural role, but in a steel-beam building the walls were essentially hung from the internal skeleton of steel beams, which meant that walls and corners no longer needed to be solid but could be opened up in unexpected ways.

The baby is not yet on solids.

Unlike Venus, it is just the right distance from the Sun so that temperature ranges allow water to exist as a liquid, a solid, and a gas.

Remember we defined the word 'phase' as being one physical state, whether solid, liquid or gas, that...well...that has distinct boundaries and uniform properties.

So actually what you got in smoke are three phases: solid, liquid, and gas, which you can separate by a process of filtration.

What this means is that in addition to rocky and metallic particles there would be other solids like frozen water and frozen ammonia.

And this includes solids, liquids and gases.

So today I want to talk about a technology that offers a potential solution to the problem—Anaerobic Phased Solids digestion, or APS digestion.

The department was solid against the changes.

As yet, they have no solid evidence.

He is a solid player.

A cube is a solid figure.

This cat is solid black.

It rained for two hours solid this afternoon.