Talk:Fluid

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I'm sure it is an unrecognised buzz word, but I've heard the world fluid been used to describe a gay related sexuality.

[edit] Solids which behave like fluids

How does one categorize materials such as sugar or grain, which in bulk have very fluid-like behaviors? A very large number of plastic beads or metal ball-bearings would behave exactly like a fluid. Denni ☯ 23:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

They are solids. When modelling them, the word used is "granular flow". The distinction is not the the solids behave like fluids but that small abjects together exhibit fluid-like behaviours. And by the way, they do not behave like fluids in many cases.CyrilleDunant 09:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't see how a large container of, say, BBs, would behave any differently from a fluid, except for the property of wetting, and the presence of surface tension. Denni ☯ 01:27, 30 June 2006 (UTC)