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superfluid

a. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting superfluidity. n. (label en physics) A substance, such as liquid helium, that exhibits superfluidity.

Usage examples of "superfluid".

He was breathing hard and trembling, and she could see the short hairs which coated his scalp pulsing as superfluid surged through them.

Air inside the Net ceased to be superfluid and became a stiff, turbulent mass, whipping and whorling around the vortex instability like some demented animal.

His palms grew slick with superfluid sweat, a steady ache spread along his back, and for some reason the vision of his good eye was starting to tremble and blur.

The tree trunk grew along the direction of the Magfield, and so moving along it meant moving in the easiest direction, parallel to the Magfield, with the superfluid Air offering hardly any resistance.

The Air had two main components, a neutron superfluid and an electron gas.

Dura felt the prickle of cooling superfluid capillaries opening all over her body.

And similarly if you take superfluid out the temperature rises, because normal fluid is left behind.

Perhaps the superfluid fraction of this Air was lower than in the true Mantle.

Humans were confined within the Mantle to a shell of superfluid Air only a few meters thick.

In that region, he knew, the turbulence of the Air, lashed by the neutrino storm from the Core, was such that its superfluid properties had broken down.

It would have gone into the environment, and fouled up superfluid effects, and vaporized some of the ices.

The sunlight sets up a temperature differential - tiny, but enough to get superfluid helium pumping up through the roots.

Every wall has been rendered transparent, and every nanopipe and superfluid conduit is known perfectly.

Many years later Michel proposed a theory of human freedom using the flow of superfluid helium as an analogy.

Later that same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for discoveries he had made a decade earlier, in which he used quantum theory to explain the weird behavior of superfluid helium at temperatures close to absolute zero.