Word for the movement of one fluid within another
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00:00 Word For The Movement Of One Fluid Within Another
00:28 Answer 1 Score 6
00:52 Accepted Answer Score 21
01:19 Answer 3 Score 0
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Score 21
The ink billowed through the water.
The action is like clouds billowing in the air. The OED definition of 'billowing' does not exclude the billowing of one liquid within another.
- fig. and transf. To surge, swell, undulate, roll with wavy motion.
The billowing of clouds is caused by warm air currents rising upwards. The billowing of the liquid in the image is caused by gravity pulling downwards.
ANSWER 2
Score 6
The red ink produced a turbulent flow and then diffused quickly through the water.
The red ink "diffused through" the water.
- diffuse something through something else - to distribute or scatter something through something else.
- The chemical process diffused the purple color through the liquid.
- Let us try to diffuse the medication through the bloodstream as rapidly as possible.
- The dye diffused through the water rapidly.
ANSWER 3
Score 0
Dissipated. The blood from the mangled head of the victim quickly dissipated in the clear waters of the millrace until it disappeared somewhere among the rushes.