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quicksand    音标拼音: [kw'ɪks,ænd]
n. 流沙,流沙地,危险状态

流沙,流沙地,危险状态

quicksand
n 1: a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
2: a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are
sucked down

Quicksand \Quick"sand`\, n.
Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure;
especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with
water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some
coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of
extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
[1913 Webster]

Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares!
--Longfellow.
[1913 Webster]

110 Moby Thesaurus words for "quicksand":
baygall, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, breakers ahead,
buffalo wallow, cardhouse, cause for alarm, clutch, complication,
coral heads, crisis, crunch, danger, dangerous ground,
embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, endangerment,
everglade, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, gaping chasm,
gathering clouds, glade, hazard, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow,
holm, hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, imbroglio,
imperilment, ironbound coast, jam, jeopardy, ledges, lee shore,
marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, menace, mere, mess, mire,
mix, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, parlous straits,
pass, peat bog, peril, pickle, pinch, pitfall, plight, predicament,
pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire,
quicksands, risk, rockbound coast, rocks, rocks ahead, salt marsh,
sandbank, sandbar, sands, scrape, shallows, shoals, slob land,
slough, sough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds,
strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, thin ice,
threat, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot,
undercurrent, undertow, unholy mess, wallow, wash

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  • Quicksand - Wikipedia
    Quicksand, also known as sinking sand, is a colloid consisting of fine granular material (such as sand, silt or clay) and water It forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly agitated
  • How Deadly Is Quicksand? - Britannica
    Quicksand—that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water—can be a mucky nuisance, but it’s basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies That’s because quicksand is denser than the human body
  • What Is Quicksand and How Does It Actually Work?
    Quicksand is a mixture of sand, water, and sometimes clay or silt that looks solid but behaves like a liquid when disturbed It has a density roughly twice that of the human body, which means the Hollywood image of someone being swallowed whole is physically impossible
  • Is Quicksand Real? Learn How Quicksand Works - HowStuffWorks
    Quicksand is created when water saturates an area of loose sand and the ordinary sand is suddenly agitated When the water trapped in the batch of sand with loose packing can't escape, it creates liquefied soil that can no longer support weight
  • What Is Quicksand? Learn How to Escape It - ThoughtCo
    Quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid made of sand mixed with water or air It changes its viscosity in response to stress or vibration, allowing you to sink, but making it hard to escape
  • Quicksand warning issued at popular beach after serious hazard . . . - MSN
    A warning has been issued after an area of quicksand was reported on a Northumberland beach The alert was raised at Boulmer Haven and Boulmer Beach, near Alnwick, where Howick Coastguard Rescue
  • How to Spot Quicksand: Signs and Locations - Biology Insights
    Quicksand forms when loose granular material, such as sand, silt, or clay, becomes saturated with water and agitated Water fills the spaces between solid particles, reducing friction and causing the material to lose its ability to support weight, transforming it into a liquefied state
  • Quicksand coastguard warning at popular staycation spot
    A warning has been issued by the coastguard after quicksand was discovered at a beach in Northumberland Howick Coastguard Rescue Team has urged visitors to Boulmer Haven and Boulmer Beach to exercise "extreme care", reports Chronicle Live Quicksand forms when sand, water and clay or silt combine
  • How Quicksand Works and How to Escape its clutches
    Quicksand is a shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid that looks like a gel when undisturbed but quickly drops in viscosity once an object rests its mass Quicksand is a mixture of sand or silt and
  • Quicksand | Soils 4 Teachers
    Quicksand is an interesting natural phenomenon that happens when soil begins to act more like a liquid than a solid The "quick" refers to how easily the sand (soil particles) shifts when in this semi-liquid state





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