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	Dry quicksand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dry quicksand is loose sand whose bulk density is reduced by blowing air through it and which yields easily to weight or pressure.
		Until recently, the existence of dry quicksand was doubted, and the reports of humans and complete caravans being lost in dry quicksand were considered to be folklore.
		In nature, dry quicksands may evolve from the sedimentation of very fine sand after it has been blown into the air and, if large enough, might be a threat to humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dry_quicksand (529 words)

	Quicksand - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Quicksand is loose, water-logged sand which yields easily to weight or pressure.
		Quicksand is not as dangerous as depicted in many movies.
		As the bay is very broad and shallow, a person trapped by the quicksand would be exposed to the danger of the tide which can come in extremely rapidly.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Quicksand (138 words)

	Quicksand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quicksand can be found inland (on riverbanks or in marshes) or near the coast.
		One region notorious for its quicksands is Morecambe Bay, England.
		As the bay is very broad and shallow, a person trapped by the quicksand would be exposed to the danger of the returning tide, which can come in very rapidly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quicksand (304 words)

	Quicksand -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Quicksand is loose, water-logged (A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral) sand which yields easily to (An artifact that is heavy) weight or (The force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)) pressure.
		Quicksand is not as dangerous as depicted in many (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement) movies.
		Because quicksand is (Click link for more info and facts about denser) denser than the (Alternative names for the body of a human being) human body, a person will usually (Something that remains on the surface of a liquid) float in it.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/quicksand.htm (386 words)

	Definition of Liquefaction
		Quicksand forms when water saturates an area of loose sand and the ordinary sand is agitated.
		Quicksand can be formed by standing or flowing underground water (as from an underground spring), or by earthquakes.
		Objects in the liquefied sand sink to the level at which the weight of the object is equal to the weight of the displaced sand/water mix and the object floats due to its buoyancy.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Liquefaction (952 words)

	Encyclopedia: Quicksand
		Quicksand has a number of other meanings: Quicksand is loose, water-logged sand which yields easily to weight or pressure.
		Further, even when the quicksand is deep enough, deliberate effort is required to sink below the surface, as the human body is much more buoyant in quicksand than water.
		Flash flooding is rapid flooding of low-lying areas, rivers and creeks that is caused by the intense rainfall associated with a thunderstorm, or multiple training thunderstorms.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Quicksand (1042 words)

	How To Make Your Own Quicksand!
		Basically, quicksand is saturated sand whose sand grains are so loose that they can slide past each other when pressure/agitation is applied.
		Dry sand grains won't stick together at all, and therefore would fall and settle into a packed formation.
		Basically, what you do is scrape off the dry sand from the beach away from the water until you come to the slightly moist sand, which is slightly darker than the dry sand, but lighter than the wet sand by the water.
	www.geocities.com /Pipeline/Curb/4204/qsrecipe.html (956 words)

	Wisconsin Engineer - April, 1997
		Quicksand, instead of being solid and dependable like the earth "should be," is a betrayal of our belief in the firmness of the ground beneath our feet.
		For dry sand, or sand that is not too wet, the frictional forces between the particles are large enough to cause the sand to be relatively solid.
		The primary characteristic of quicksand that sets it apart from ordinary sand is that the water pressure beneath the sand is equal to, or is slightly greater than the weight of the sand particles.
	homepages.cae.wisc.edu /~wiscengr/issues/apr97/quicksand.html (953 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		There is quicksand in a sketch with Benny as a newsman in the field, reporting on the dangers of the Blackmoor bogs as he is seen suddenly dropping out of the camera's view.
		There is a scene in which a woman drowns in a pit of quicksand and is bitten in the face by a snake as she struggles to her doom.
		After seeing his suitcase sink in quicksand, he places his hat on the surface to appear as if he died, but the others were just organizing a party for him and rip up their copy of the will in sorrow.
	www.quicksandmovies.com /scenes25.txt (24302 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Research \| Swallowed by 'dry quicksand'
		But Detlef Lohse and colleagues at the University of Twente, Netherlands, nod to the 1926 account of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire as they report the creation of "dry quicksand" which may render stories of travellers and whole vehicles being swallowed instantly more credible.
		The team made dry quicksand by forcing air through a deep layer of sand in a miniature pit and then allowing the sand to settle.
		To see how the dry quicksand behaved, the researchers suspended a ping-pong ball partly filled with bronze grains above the pit.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/research/story/0,9865,1369194,00.html (179 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Quicksand is depicted in movies as a mysterious goo that pulls its victims down to certain death.
		Quicksand is a condition that occurs when water trickles up through an existing deposit of sand.
		Quicksand is most commonly found at the mouths of rivers or on flat areas of land near water sources where small pools of water form.
	www.auburn.edu /cte403/w8smith.html (1382 words)

	:: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog ::
		Quicksand is essentially sand or dirt infused with so much underground water that it turns to a sludge into which a victim theoretically sinks slowly, eventually being consumed.
		But, quicksand was always really scary, cause it was slow death, and then you just disapper into the nothingness, with a little bubble pop...
		My opinion: once it was generally known that quicksand wouldn't pull you all the way under but just leave you there half sunk, its melodrama factor fell too low to be anything but a prop in a joke.
	www.rushkoff.com /2005/02/quicksand.php (2101 words)

	Dry Quick Sand - Mac Forums
		Traditional deathtrap quicksand is a slurry of sand, water and clay.
		Now Dr. Lohse, a professor of applied physics, and his colleagues at the University of Twente in the Netherlands show that it is possible to vanish into a pile of completely dry sand as well.
		Quicksand (normal kind) is so dense, that you would sink up to your chest and then stop.
	forums.macrumors.com /showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=101098 (777 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		] A dry powder, consisting principally of sodium bicarbonate, which is used for extinguishing small fires, especially electrical fires.
		In C. Thornwaite's climatic classification, any climate type in which the seasonal water surplus does not counteract seasonal water deficiency, and having a moisture index of less than zero; included are the dry subhumid, semiarid, and arid climates.
		] A property of dried bonded sand to permit passage of gases while molten material is poured into a mold.
	www.accessscience.com /Dictionary/D/D32/DictD32.html (2603 words)

	Joey Green's WackyScientist.com
		When you hit the surface of the mixture with your fist, the quicksand supports your weight, but when you push your fingers into the mixture, they easily sink to the bottom of the bowl.
		When you punch the quicksand, your fist forces the long starch molecules closer together, trapping the water between the starch chains to form a semirigid structure.
		Many people have lost their lives sinking into quicksand—a thick body of sand grains mixed with water that appears to be a dry, hard surface.
	www.wackyuses.com /experiments/quicksand.htm (439 words)

	quicksand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The undisturbed sand often is, or appears, solid until some shock or sudden increase in pressure, such as a person stepping on it, causes it to liquify and lose its cohesion.
		The biggest danger comes from flailing the arms and legs, which literally "digs" that person deeper and can cause him or her to drown.
		As the bay is very broad and shallow, a person trapped by the quicksand would be exposed to the danger of the returning high tide, which can come in very rapidly.
	goc.subdomain.de /quicksand (185 words)

	Disappearing in dry quicksand
		They report about 'dry quicksand' in 9 December's issue of Nature.
		The well known quicksand is a mixture with force chains that are substantially weaker.
		To create dry quicksand, the scientist filled a container with very fine grain sand (grains of about 0,04 millimetres).
	www.physorg.com /news2490.html (357 words)

	Dry quicksand
		The scientists from the Physics of Fluids Group at the University of Twente, in the east of the Netherlands, have aerated dry sand so that it acts like quicksand, which is usually wet.
		At first sight the whole process resembles what happens when you throw a pebble into a puddle of water, except that in dry quicksand you don’t see rings appear around the spot where it went in.
		Raymond Bergmann is convinced that desert winds could blow sand grains of the finest grade into loosely packed drifts, which could be a minor hazard for people travelling on foot - only minor because the traveller may be able to feel the difference between the ‘puddles’ and their harder surroundings and manage to backtrack.
	www2.rnw.nl /rnw/en/features/science/042012rf (769 words)

	wickenburg-az.com \| Journal of Prevarication
		The mixture of sand and water is waiting to grip the ankles of the villain who is fleeing from the posse, or the damsel who needs to be rescued in the romance novel you're reading.
		The article explained, "Quicksand is found in three spots--above water level on the shore of a stream, underwater, and in what looks like a dry riverbed...Although most quicksand traps are small, they should not be underestimated.
		Some actually are dry, except on those rare occasions when rain upstream causes them to flood.
	www.wickenburg-az.com /journal/2003/suckingsound.html (853 words)

	jonabad.com » Blog Archive » Dry Quicksand! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		With normal quicksand, at least there's got to be water involved… dry climates, you think you're safe?
		Its a good thing that this is just experimental laboratory dry quicksand and not a naturally occurring phenomenom… Watch.
		I think this, and then I just stumble into some quicksand and barely escape with my life.
	www.jonabad.com /2004/12/16/dry-quicksand (86 words)

	quicksand - Detaillierte Informationen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Kaoland#39;s Quicksand Collection Volume 1 This is my first DVD and is almost 90 minutes...
		Fantasy Flight Games: Quicksand Yet the lands before the temple are covered with pits of treacherous quicksand and jungle, and the adventurers cannot traverse the dangerous distance...
		Dry Quicksand Our latest experiments show that such a dry quicksand may exist, and that objects can sink up to many diameters deep into very loose, fine sand.
	quicksand.detaillierte-informationen.de (157 words)

	Quicksand - Notes from Classy's Kitchen
		When I was a kid, guys on TV - usually cowboys and villains, but sometimes even explorers or Wild Kingdom trackers - would get stuck in quicksand at least once a week.
		I mean, it was a regular dramatic convention, seemingly as popular as, say, DNA tests on hair strands are in television, today.
		As usual in blogland comment run all the way from "It's a myth - it doesn't exist" to footage of real quicksand as well as artificially created dry quicksand that will swallow even objects as light as a ping pong ball.
	www.classy.dk /log/archive/001386.html (217 words)

	Quicksand (2001/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The blinking corpse in the beginning of this film is a clue as to the shabby production which follows.
		A story of international intrigue with Keaton's character framed for murder and desperately trying to exonerate himself while on the run from both good and evil elements, "Quicksand" sinks slowly into its own messy conglomerated story which tries to do too much in too little time.
		Its good cast and nice locations can't make up for the poor screenplay, the herky-jerky flow, the numerous unanswered questions, and countless plot holes making this flick best saved for broadcast where one can switch channels with no liability as soon as they find themselves losing interest; which may be sooner than later.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0271136 (291 words)

	Quicksand on Television
		As he escapes with a guy whom he believes killed his father, the guy falls into very realistic, thick, grey quicksand and is rescued by the the man and his wife just as Mr.
		While attacked by a giant, winged reptile, a well-endowed young lady and her brother fall into a quicksand pit and are pulled out by our hero after going all the way under.
		The quicksand is of the dry type, but the scene is good, none the less.
	www.dellamente.com /quicksand/doc/qstv.htm (720 words)

	Scenes25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Brisco and Lord Bowler are captured by pirates in the desert and forced to "walk the plank" into a quicksand pit right after the pirate sinks one of his disloyal men to his death with an anchor.
		One of the guys sinks into quicksand up to his ankles when the group is out on a camping trip.
		A jungle explorer sinks in quicksand and is pulled out by his partner with a pair of that brand of underwear to show the strength of its waistband.
	www.quicksandmovies.com /scenes25.html (23388 words)

	Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In quicksands, it is the humidity which returns the sand incapable to support(bear) the weight exercised by a body.
		Lohse and his(her) team of the University of Twente mixed of the air(sight) in some sand in the fine grains(beads) in a container until obtain a mixture consisted in 41 % of sand (against 55 in 60 % at normal time(weather)).
		In the nature, these dry quicksands could form by sédimentation of very fine sands lifted(raised) in great quantities by the wind, suggest these specialists of the physics of the fluids in one letter sent to the Natural review.
	nouvelobs.reverso.net /url/obsResult.asp?directions=65544&template=Default&autotranslate=1&url=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/sciences/20041209.OBS3351.html (321 words)

	Keep it Clean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		One night when we were watching some lame movie just to see a brief QS scene, she asked me if I could ever do a sink.
		"Sure- as soon as someone invents clean, dry quicksand." I should have noticed the look in her eyes- it was the one she gets when she's plotting something.
		Anyway, a month or so later we went to watch her uncle's farm while he was at State Fair for a week.
	home.earthlink.net /~ostlandr/clean.htm (1395 words)

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