An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VISCOSITY
viscosity, viscousness
(noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
viscosity (countable and uncountable, plural viscosities)
(uncountable) The state of being viscous.
(countable, physics) A quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting uniform flow.
(uncountable, psychology) A tendency to prolong interpersonal encounters.
Antonyms
• fluidity
Source: Wiktionary
Vis*cos"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. viscosité, LL. viscositas.]
1. The quality or state of being viscous.
2. (Physics)
Definition: A quality analogous to that of a viscous fluid, supposed to be caused by internal friction, especially in the case of gases.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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