I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dishwashing liquid
liquid assets
liquid refreshment (= alcoholic drink – used humorously )
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I was in need of some liquid refreshment.
washing-up liquid
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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Before him was a bowl of clear liquid , in which lay a complicated puzzle of interlocking rings.
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The house like the other houses, veined, a private fountain of clear liquid .
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Several companies, such as Johnstone's, Cuprinol, and Feb, also do a clear damp-proofing liquid .
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I must have assumed at the time the clear burning liquid was medicine.
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All patients received a traditional two day bowel preparation and were given clear liquids during this time.
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He joined me at the table and poured out two generous measures of the clear liquid from the bottle.
dark
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They searched for over an hour, following at first some vague footprints in the smudged, dark liquid .
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The sensation was one of blood distending the veins until they were about to release geysers of the dark red liquid .
flammable
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Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight.
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Class B for flammable liquids like gasoline, oil, and grease.
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The occupant returned home at 10.30 last night to find flammable liquid had been poured through the letterbox.
hot
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The hot liquid refreshed and strengthened her.
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Turn the machine back on and slowly pour in the hot liquid .
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The superintendent flicked it into the ashtray with the plastic spoon and sipped the hot liquid .
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Stainless steel should be used for critical risk areas or for handling very hot liquids .
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No time to shout out - the door clunked behind him. Hot liquid of tears brimmed in his head.
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He tried a sip of tea and winced as the hot liquid scalded his tongue.
red
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He put a little of the red liquid in the glass and added a packet of powder.
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A thermometer measures temperature. Red liquid can move up or down.
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A red liquid oozed over the floor.
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The sensation was one of blood distending the veins until they were about to release geysers of the dark red liquid .
viscous
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She moved as if she were in a dream, wading through viscous liquid .
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Accepting then that the material making up the mantle can behave as a viscous liquid , this raises an interesting possibility.
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Pools of viscous liquid started to spread across the floor.
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The process is normally incomplete because crystallization takes place when the polymer is a viscous liquid .
■ VERB
absorb
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It has to absorb all the liquid it requires through its skin.
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It also absorbs less liquid , so slightly more is needed when trading it for regular flour.
add
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Fluff gently with a fork, add oil or cooking liquid , onion, bell peppers, tomato, and olives.
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Add the eggs, vanilla and buttermilk and mix well. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and beat until smooth.
cook
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She then strains that cooking liquid over sliced quinces, adding just enough fresh water to comfortably cover all the fruit.
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Drain and reserve cup of the cooking liquid .
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Drain oxtails and peanuts, reserving cooking liquid .
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Strain cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a pot.
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Fluff gently with a fork, add oil or cooking liquid , onion, bell peppers, tomato, and olives.
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Allow birds to cool in the cooking liquid .
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Drizzle the cooking liquid over the partridge and save the remainder to flavor soup stocks.
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Add sherry to saute pan with cooking liquid , simmer briefly, and adjust seasoning.
drink
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He put the glass to his lips and drank the liquid .
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The redhead brought out some glasses and he drank the liquid down in one go.
form
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We all know that ice floats on top of the pond, though crystals forming in any other liquid would sink to the bottom.
pour
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She poured the leftover liquid into a small bowl.
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I poured some liquid into a peanut butter jar and dumped some white powder in itit bubbled.
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She was combing out her blonde hair and pouring a colourless liquid from a bottle over her head.
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I poured a purplish liquid into the water; it spread through it like ink.
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Turn the machine back on and slowly pour in the hot liquid .
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When this scanning is complete, the 3D structure is released by pouring out the remaining liquid .
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Remove the platter from the steamer and pour off the liquid .
reserve
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Drain, reserving any liquid , and keep warm in a heated serving dish until the sauce is made.
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Remove duck and pat dry with paper towels. Reserve basting liquid .
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Drain oxtails and peanuts, reserving cooking liquid .
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Add reserved marinade liquid and stock and bring to a simmer.
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Strain reserved steeping liquid through paper coffee filter to remove sand.
strain
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She then strains that cooking liquid over sliced quinces, adding just enough fresh water to comfortably cover all the fruit.
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The next day, remove meat and drain on paper towels. Strain marinade and reserve liquid .
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Cook for 2 minutes. Strain excessive liquid into a pan and retain the mushrooms and liquid for later use. 2.
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Return onions to pan and then strain marinade liquid over rabbit.
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Remove mushrooms and carefully strain soaking liquid to remove any grit or sand.
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Chop finely. Strain reserved steeping liquid through paper coffee filter to remove sand.
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Remove from heat and strain off any liquid .
use
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And if current tests prove successful they could also be used with liquids .
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Continue until all of the liquids have been used .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Add most of the flour to the liquid and stir the mixture.
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Cook the rice until all the liquid is absorbed.
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She screamed as the boiling liquid burned her skin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By this time, the mixture should be rich and pulpy with very little liquid . 3.
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Given an adequate amount of glucose, the ethanol content of a fermenting liquid rises until it reaches about 12 percent.
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Lais's hand shook as she downed the dense amber liquid .
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Remove the platter from the steamer and pour off the liquid .
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Show the students the liquids and identify them.
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The column allows the ascending vapour to come into contact with the descending liquid .
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The house like the other houses, veined, a private fountain of clear liquid .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
asset
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The need for short-term, highly liquid assets is low.
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At certain times, banks may decide that it is prudent to hold a bigger proportion of liquid assets .
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This is M4plus various other holdings of liquid assets .
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They may also do so if they anticipate that their liquid assets may soon be squeezed by government monetary policy.
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As we have seen throughout section 4.1, whatever their major business, all NBFIs maintain some stock of liquid assets .
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Short-term liquid assets are held for active trading purposes and for buying long-term investments.
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They therefore provide a secure and highly liquid asset for the banks.
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A liquid asset is one which can be transformed into cash quickly and without loss of value.
crystal
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The units use back light liquid crystal displays and, according to Burmarc, consume very little power.
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Incoming phone numbers are displayed on a liquid crystal diode screen.
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New products, including liquid crystal display televisions, long-life batteries and new materials offer promise for the future.
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The front of the box is a flat panel, color liquid crystal display with tiny stereo speakers and a built-in microphone.
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Measurements are shown on a liquid crystal display.
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Sergeyev has developed a machine that uses liquid crystals to recover such energy from the surface of these objects.
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Special liquid crystal glasses are required to see the 3D effect.
diet
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The regimen consisted of a liquid diet for 36 hours, followed by an absolute fast for a further 12 hours.
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Instead, they survive on a liquid diet that costs a staggering $ 10, 000 a month.
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A Sister was carefully feeding him a liquid diet .
fertiliser
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Plant detritus if available is sufficient, but if necessary it can also be nourished by liquid fertiliser .
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An occasional application of liquid fertiliser is beneficial.
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It allows the rate of pesticide or liquid fertiliser to be varied as the sprayer moves through the crop.
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Keep the soil-based compost moist in the growing period and feed fortnightly with a standard liquid fertiliser .
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Next Spring start feeding the plant every week with a liquid fertiliser .
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If necessary a small amount of liquid fertiliser should be used to provide nourishment.
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Your 60-minute action checklist Continue feeding the tomato plants and courgettes with a liquid fertiliser such as Maxicrop.
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Keep fuchsia well watered during prolonged dry spells in summer and feed regularly with a potash-rich liquid fertiliser .
form
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It comes in dried and liquid forms .
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The remedy does not, as many people think, have to be taken in liquid form as a tea or medicine.
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The low temperatures required to keep it in liquid form are much more easily maintained in space than on the ground.
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Solvent based hard surface cleaners are always supplied in liquid form with industrial packs usually being 5 litres or thereabouts.
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We emphasised in section 5.1 that bills are a very liquid form of asset.
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In other words the vapour and liquid forms of water are indistinguishable above this point.
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Dishwasher detergent comes in powder, concentrate or liquid form .
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It would fly around in the atmosphere for a few hours, storing away oxygen in liquid form .
fuel
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The government on June 3 liberalized the prices of liquid fuels , producing price increases of between 70 and 113 percent.
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Some liquid fuel stoves can be carried with fuel already in the tank, usually enough for a weekend.
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Use a filter funnel when filling your liquid fuel pressure stove.
helium
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Obviously there is a price to be paid in holding the liquid helium temperatures.
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The Kamikaze: One part liquid helium , two parts prussic acid.
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Supplies of liquid helium are an absolute necessity in many modern science laboratories.
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These micro-refrigerators are commercially available, and avoid the explosion hazard of liquid hydrogen and the expense of liquid helium .
hydrogen
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These micro-refrigerators are commercially available, and avoid the explosion hazard of liquid hydrogen and the expense of liquid helium.
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We then start to accumulate liquid hydrogen in an empty fuel tank.
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Driving these cells were the contents of two liquid oxygen tanks and two liquid hydrogen tanks.
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Since most of the mass of Uranus air is hydrogen , most of the output from the refrigeration system is liquid hydrogen.
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Thus, this mission is so demanding that we are forced to use liquid hydrogen as the propellant.
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By 1909 he was already aware of the superior potential of liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen rocket engines.
market
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A less liquid market could have unfavourable effects on the cost of raising capital.
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To be successful, a futures contract must have a liquid market with low transactions costs associated with trading in the contract.
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Dealing between GEMMs plays an important part in the maintenance of an efficient and liquid market .
mixture
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For example, ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel.
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All liquid mixtures deviate from ideal behaviour to a greater or lesser extent.
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The top line is a plot of vapour pressure of the liquid mixture against liquid composition.
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The liquid mixture thus has a higher vapour pressure.
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The liquid mixture cools until point a'.
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Let us now consider a liquid mixture of composition c. This starts to form solid naphthalene at point c'.
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Let us consider a liquid mixture of initial composition C in figure 6.21.
nitrogen
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The specimens were weighed immediately, frozen in liquid nitrogen , and stored at -80°C.
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The ceramics -- cables encased in a sheath of liquid nitrogen -- are being developed for power generation and other machinery applications.
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In addition, it would consume liquid nitrogen for cooling purposes at approximately £20 per trip.
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The tissue was then snap-frozen by immersion in liquid nitrogen before storage at -70°C for up to six months.
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At both operations, biopsies from the tumour and non-tumour liver tissue were collected and snap frozen in liquid nitrogen .
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After immersion in 40% glycerin solution at room temperature, they were placed on a copper stage and frozen with liquid nitrogen .
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This test was used to ensure a 100% death rate of cells frozen in liquid nitrogen .
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The specimens were frozen immediately in liquid nitrogen and subjected to autofluorescence microscopy.
oxygen
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Boiling the liquid oxygen was as good a way of getting it out of the tank.
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The engines of the Atlas burned a modified aviation fuel, similar to kerosene, with liquid oxygen .
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The two prototype pumps, installed in the eastern Paris suburbs of Colombes and Rueil-Malmaison, use liquid oxygen .
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Zubrin proposes burning methane with liquid oxygen for the return trip to Earth.
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By doing without liquid oxygen at take-off, the plane's total weight would be cut almost in half.
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In that case, we would think first of burning hydrocarbons with liquid oxygen , or even using the hydrogen-oxygen propellant combination.
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Driving these cells were the contents of two liquid oxygen tanks and two liquid hydrogen tanks.
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This removes half of the cryogenics problem but leaves us with liquid oxygen .
refreshment
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And the signs are the journeys will made without liquid refreshment .
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Oh, there were times when a few drops of liquid refreshment passed their lips.
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A hearty supper was eaten and a bar constantly provided welcome liquid refreshment .
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But at least there was liquid refreshment on hand in Ted's hour of need.
soap
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For a more soluble preparation mix the usual amount of essential oil into a tablespoonful of unperfumed liquid soap .
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We had rubbed liquid soap , big green handfuls of it, over each other.
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There was a joyless odor in the air now somewhat reminiscent of liquid soap .
state
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After the gas has flowed through the indoor coil and given up its heat, it condenses back to a liquid state .
waste
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The plant's function is to turn radioactive liquid waste into glass blocks.
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Improper drainage of liquid waste from espresso machine.
water
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If liquid water appeared on the surface of a world that was in a vacuum, it would evaporate instantly.
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The seas and rivers, lakes and glaciers, are gone; the dynamic play of rain and liquid water is absent.
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Since the cells are closed, spindle-shaped tubes, the liquid water inside them is not very easy to get out.
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The Moon is unfortunately a barren body devoid of atmosphere and liquid water .
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Water is an exception since the density of ice is lower than that of liquid water.
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If the findings pan out, Europa would be the first body outside of Earth where liquid water is abundant.
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Having sunk, it would then be insulated from the Sun's warming rays by the liquid water above it.
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There is no liquid water on the surface of Mars today because the pressure of the atmosphere is very low.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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liquid nitrogen
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Certificates of deposit are not as liquid as money in a passbook account.
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Treat your plants once a week with liquid fertiliser.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Liquid Nikwax A non-oily liquid wax which cleans as it waterproofs.
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During the main growing season from April to September, frequent watering is required, adding a liquid houseplant feed each week.
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It was assumed that the liquid discharge would disperse and be rendered harmless.
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The protein-sparing modified fast was popularized in the form of liquid protein diets.
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The SE-703 has been designed to replace traditional liquid solvent extraction usually used for sample preparation prior to chromatographic analysis.
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This removes half of the cryogenics problem but leaves us with liquid oxygen.