rheologicaladj.

1927 G. M. Fair & M. C. Whipple Microsc. of Drinking Water (ed. 4) i. 10 Rheological studies of the Illinois River system.

1959 Times 8 Jan. 2/6 (advt.) Conduct investigations into..the rheological behaviour of chocolate, particularly at low rates of shear.

1974 Sci. Amer. Dec. 88/3 Solidification proceeds from spheroidal growth centers. The rheological (flow) properties of this structure are quite different from those of the dendritic structure.

2001 E. Schlosser Fast Food Nation v. 128 The Universal TA-XT2 Texture Analyzer..is essentially a mechanical mouth. It gauges the most important rheological properties of a food.

1987 Economist 5 Dec. 102/1 Rheological polymers contain water.

1994 G. V. Middleton & P. R. Wilcock Mech. in Earth & Environmental Sci. 393 What kind of rheological substance is a turbulent fluid?

2003 I. Smith et al. Fracture & Fatigue in Wood iii. 53 Wood is a rheological material, and thus exhibits deformation that is dependent upon the loading history and total elapsed time.

1938 G. W. S. Blair Introd. Industr. Rheol. iv. 35 This work has been done chiefly on clays, but it is equally applicable to quite a number of rheologically similar materials.

1973 Nature 14 Sept. 78/2 In a rheologically young planet, we expect that quakes will occur whenever the total elastic energy in a certain region exceeds some critical value.

2005 M. Nemčok et al. Thrustbelts vii. 167/2 Contact between rheologically different rocks can result in significant local stress perturbations.