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1929 E. C. Bingham in Proc. Amer. Soc. Testing Materials 29 ii. 910 ‘Rheology’: The subject under discussion when designated as..the science of the deformation of matter is cumbersome... A large number of words have been suggested and John R. Crawford, late Professor of Latin at Lafayette College, inclined to the belief that ‘rheology’ is the most appropriate designation. This term will be used for convenience in what follows.

1929 (title) Journal of rheology published by the Society of Rheology.

1946 Nature 30 Mar. 403/1 Interest in rheology has increased in recent years.

1968 M. Pyke Food & Society ix. 130 The firmness or toughness of foodstuffs is also a relevant measure of their quality; rheology is the branch of science which has been developed to measure and describe such characteristics.

1989 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 17 June b8/1 A lengthy project in rheology—which, in ‘Trivial Pursuit’ terms, deals with the flow of microparticles in water.

2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. viii. 329 Much of the emphasis in rheology has been devoted to polymeric fluids and their peculiar behavior under stress.

1934 U.S. Patent 1,975,079 3/1 The rheology of inorganic compositions.

1947 Nature 11 Jan. 71/1 The rheology of suspensions is fundamentally dependent on the dispersion coefficient of the medium.

1964 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 270 832 (title) Rheology of blood in the microvasculature.

1992 Independent 15 Apr. 27/2 Relating the results of skilled cheese-graders to the rheology of cheese.

2005 J. Martí & A. Folch in J. Martí & G. G. J. Ernst Volcanoes & Environment iii. 92/1 The chemical composition of a magma..will strongly influence its physical properties, specifically its rheology.