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To float to swim...
Meerschaum
A fine white claylike mineral soft and light enough when in dry masses to float in water It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes cigar holders etc Also called sepiolite...
Neaped
Left aground on the height of a spring tide so that it will not float till the next spring tide called also beneaped...
Physograde
Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float as the Physalia...
Physophoraelig
An order of Siphonophora furnished with an air sac or float and a series of nectocalyces See Illust under Nectocalyx...
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at points where magma upwells from below and driven by such upwellings and other currents on the athenosphere sliding past each other colliding with each other and in some cases being submerged subducted one below the other This theory is now widely accepted and explains many geological phenomena such as the clustered locations of earthquakes mountain building volcanism and the similarities observed between the geology of continents such as South America and Africa which are now far apart but according to the theory were once joined together The motions of such tectonic plates are very slow typically only several centimeters per year but over tens and hundreds of millions of years cause very large changes in the relative positions of the cont...
Pneumatocyst
A cyst or sac of a siphonophore containing air and serving as a float as in Physalia...
Podoscaph
A canoe shaped float attached to the foot for walking on water...
Pontoon
A wooden flat bottomed boat a metallic cylinder or a frame covered with canvas India rubber etc forming a portable float used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops...
Porpita
A genus of bright colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean The individuals are round and disk shaped with a large zooid in the center of the under side surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids and by slender dactylozooids near the margin The disk contains a central float or pneumatocyst...
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