According to its water content, a soil may exist in the liquid, plastic, semi-solid, or solid state.
Due to its natural semi-solid consistency, palm oil does not need to go through the hydrogenation process which creates trans-fatty acids.
Solid or semi-solid manure can be mechanically scraped.
An embolism can happen when something solid, semi-solid or gaseous is travelling in your bloodstream and gets stuck.
Many cyclists and triathletes need a change of taste when training and competing, and gels provide a semi-solid answer to this dilemma.
The crude oil, known as concrete, is semi-solid at ordinary temperature because of a large amount of higher fatty acids, chiefly palmitic acid.
But common sense would indicate that consuming liquid or semi-solid choices - a concentrated carbohydrate drink, sports drink or gel - might be easier to digest that a bowl of lentils.
Only one day after his voyage ended on the reef, Mr Taurae was already taking semi-solid food and trying to strengthen his legs after more than four months aboard his 25-foot boat.
If the puzukku is too thick add a little more water and make it semi-solid.
These lavas are inferred to have solidified under a semi-solid carapace.
Oleoresins are liquids with a consistency varying from that of vegetable oil to a semi-solid paste.
The openings permit solid and semi-solid bodily exudates to pass through the top sheet to the absorbent core as the diaper is worn.
Fat droplets, air bubbles and ice crystals are all dispersed in a thick sugar solution to form the semi-solid, frozen and aerated matrix that we know so well.
Occasionally, we stepped into some sort of semi-solid substance.
The form of a food - solid, semi-solid or liquid - may greatly influence satiety signals.
Hydrogenation turns oils into semi-solid fats that are resistant to spoilage and thus give products a longer shelf life.
Stored liquids should be only a small fraction of the storage capacity because successful solid and semi-solid storages require excess liquids to be drained off.
Mixed digesters are usually used with liquid manure, and plug-flow digesters are best loaded with semi-solid manure.
During the 1830s a French pharmacist devised a mechanism for making soft-gelatin capsules which could then be filled - usually with unpalatable, oily, or semi-solid medicaments that could not easily be made into pills.
Each sliced pickle was carefully placed on the sandwich so that there was a semi-solid layer of pickle across the entire sandwich.