Word: liquid
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...volcano erupted and covered Pompeii with ash. Eighteen hundred years later, archaeologists found that the Pompeians' bodies, long since dust, had left molds of themselves in the impacted cinders. The scientists poured in liquid plaster, and when it set, the casts were lifted out and put in a local museum...
...less than a minute, one of the service module's two spherical oxygen tanks was completely empty; nearly 320 Ibs. of supercold ( -297° F.) oxygen, a highly pressured mix of gas and liquid, had gushed out of the spacecraft, apparently through a rupture in its thin alloy skin. Looking out of his window, Lovell could see vapor streaming by. "We are venting something into space," he reported. "It's a gas of some sort." At the same time, the spacecraft began to pitch and roll in reaction to the violent expulsion...
Shirley Booth and Al Freeman Jr. summon up considerable professional zest, and contrive to pour the coagulated treacle of Leonard Spigelgass's lines as if it were liquid gold. One may wish them better luck next time. Better sense they should have already...
Partly it was her accented voice that did it-hesitant at the surface, confident underneath, like the upper register of a cello. Partly it was the dark, liquid eyes, staring past the camera in what her admirers described as hypnotic lust and what her ophthalmologist analyzed as acute myopia. But after all, there have been hundreds of promising starlets with shiny eyes, trained voices and good bones. With Bujold what made the difference was the ability to meld the parts and the actress into something special...
Plummer and Carson came upon their theory while studying an entirely different planet-Venus. To determine the possible composition of the yellowish white atmosphere of Venus they decided to experiment with a little-known, foul-smelling liquid called carbon suboxide (C3O2). As the physicists increased its temperature, the compound solidified and underwent a series of color changes from pale yellow to orange, reddish brown, purple and a shade approaching black. Although the yellow vaguely resembled the tint of Venusian clouds, the range of colors was far more suggestive of the surface of Mars, which undergoes still unexplained variations in shading...