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No, sand is not a fluid. It is a finely divided solid. Generally speaking, fluids are liquid, gas or plasma (with a few other possibilities), and shear stress will continuously doform these substances. An example might help, so let's suggest one.
You can push your hand down to the bottom of a bucket full of water, but you can't push your hand down to the bottom of a bucket full of sand. The water in the bucket deforms continuously as you push down, and you won't have the same result pushing your hand down into a bucket of sand.
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Is sand a compressible fluid?
Can be compressed but not a fluid
What can happen during earthquakes in areas where the ground contains fluid-saturated sand?
The ground turns into quick sand and anthing on top will get submerged.
What can happen during earthquakes in the areas where the ground contains fluid saturated sand?
The ground turns into quick sand and anthing on top will get submerged.
What is granular fluid?
A granular fluid is a material that behaves as a fluid in the quantities considered. Flour, sand, wheat, and indeed even gravel could be considered as fluids when free flowing. They have the properties of a fluid. They will have a constant volume, and will occupy the shape of the containing vessel.
How fluids can be distinguished from solids?
A fluid is a substance that continually deforms when shear force is applied to it. Which sand does. Sand can also be moved with fluid handling equipment like pumps, pipes, hoses and tanks. It would be very difficult to "prove" sand isn't a fluid because it acts exactly like one. There are "solid" fluids like gelatin and silly putty...it'd be easier to prove sand is a fluid than to prove it isn't one.
Why might also think that sand is a liquid?
No. Sometimes it may exhibit fluid-like qualities, to a limited extent, but it is certainly not a fluid. A fluid, by definition, is a substance that constantly deform under shear stress, until it eventually takes the shape of any volume containing it. Picture a pile of sand. It consists of many sand particles (in essence, finely crushed rock) held in place by other sand particles lower down in the pile. While gravity does make some of the sand "flow" down the hill, eventually this movement stops and you're left with a pile. Now try and picture a pile of water. See the difference?
Is a stream solid liquid or gas?
It is a flow of a fluid so can be liquid or gas, though in some situations a mass of particulate materials such as fine sand or a powder can behave as if a fluid.
What other than a liquid is a fluid?
A gas is also a fluid. 2. sometimes granular material can be considered a fluid. Free-to-flow wheat and sand would be examples. Some industrial processes use a 'fluidized bed' to promote reactions.
What is granular?
A granular fluid is a material that behaves as a fluid in the quantities considered. Flour, sand, wheat, and indeed even gravel could be considered as fluids when free flowing. They have the properties of a fluid. They will have a constant volume, and will occupy the shape of the containing vessel.
Which type of sediment settles at greater fluid velocities than sand?
Gravel, cobbles and boulders could all fit the above description.
How do you clean lexan?
Tried commercial cleaners and 200 frit sand paper with lots of water, but what worked best for me was Automatic Transmission fluid.
How do you distinguish between a fluid and a non fluid?
fluids and non fluids can both take the shape of a container because sand can pour just as easily as water, however, fluids will stay in one particular area, but non fluids can easily spread out because for example sand, grains of sand have their own particular particles. liquids are one in total, therefore they share their particles.
