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Spongy

spongy

1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.

2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. Spongy April.

3. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.

(Science: chemistry) Spongy lead, sponge lead. See Sponge. Spongy platinum. See Platinum.


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Method preventing illnesses in the progeny

... a guarantee to exclude relapse of epidemic. Financial losses will reach trillions, if to consider natural occurrence in the same country of a spongy encephalopathy, i.e. furiousness at the cows, in the World patients with leukemia of herd and destroyed owing to flu very much a plenty of birds ...

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by valentindolzhenko
Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:26 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Method preventing illnesses in the progeny
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Transpiration - please help!

... of Transpiration as it is what hold the water molecules together and push it up the xylem. During Transpiration, water on the cell walls of the spongy mesophyll cells evaporate, leaving a thin layer of water due to the presence of hydrophilic cell wall of the plants which holds onto the water. ...

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by Pokie
Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:47 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Transpiration - please help!
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The law of confrontation the levels energy

... without a guarantee to exclude relapse of epidemic. Financial losses will reach billions if to consider natural occurrence in the same state of a spongy encephalopathy, i.e. furiousness at the cows, amazed in the world a leukemia of herd and destroyed owing to a flu very much a plenty of birds ...

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by valentindolzhenko
Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:53 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The law of confrontation the levels energy
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Hydrenchyma

... parenchyma cells, which makes sense since Nymphaea is a water lily of some sort. however, all the anatomical features I was able to identify were spongy and palisade mesophyll, along with some empty space that functions in gas storage and maybe floating. in what part of the leaf is the hydrenchyma ...

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by Nelsson
Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:40 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Hydrenchyma
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The Fiber Disease

... a very useful model of a self-organizing, self-assembling system for a material in nature." Electrically active and physically resilient, the spongy, porous gel can shrink or swell, bend, twist, stretch, or shear, then resume its normal shape. An affinity for charged particles, Mendelson says, ...

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by Livvie
Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:01 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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