Like a spark between a cloud and a lightning conductor, the liquid stretches out to the collector.

就像云块与避雷针之间的一个火花，液体向收集器扩展。

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It is like the sense of chill that follows immersion of the hand in a volatile liquid.

这很像把手浸入挥发性液体后的那种凉飕飕的感觉。

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Although the hot rock of the mantle is a solid, under the tremendous pressure of the crust and overlying rock of the mantle, it flows like a viscous liquid.

虽然地幔的热岩石是固体，但在地壳和地幔上覆岩石的巨大压力下，它像粘性液体一样流动。

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Real refrigerators actually work with liquids that go into gases so use the latent heat of the liquid, so it doesn't really work like the Joule-Thomson expansion. So this is real.

液体变成气体来工作,以运用液体的潜热，所以这不是,真正像焦耳-汤姆逊膨胀一样工作,这是真实的气体，不像焦耳。

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And, despite Superbot's impressive morphing abilities, Shen said DARPA's vision of a liquid-like robot was still a long way beyond existing technology.

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In response to this idea, Dr Kravchenko and his colleagues have proposed that a liquid-like phase of the electrons may explain their observations.

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They've shown that a synthetically grown sample of herbertsmithite crystal (what you see above) behaves as a quantum spin liquid: a material where fractional quantum states produce a liquid-like flux in magnetic orientations, even if the material is solid.

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