sol
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- noun
- /sɒl/
- Specialized
- Ares 3 evac'd after 18 sols.
- sol-gel
Examples
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Our surface mission here was supposed to last 31 sols.
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912 Sols worth of food.
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It's been 48 sols since I planted the potatoes.
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Each hour, every sol, REMS will record 5 minutes of data at 1 Hz for all sensors.
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For redundancy, they sent 68 sols worth of food.
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The salaries of widows and young women were even more meager at two or three sols per day.
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So for just me, that's gonna last 300 sols... which I figure I can stretch to 400 if I ration.
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Two sols later, Opportunity drove across Whim Creek with a 10.52-meter (34.45-foot) jaunt toward some surface targets.
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So, I've got 200 sols to figure out... how to take everything here that's keeping me alive... the oxygenator, the water reclaimer, the atmospheric regulator... bring that all with me.
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The scientist measured the chemical reactions over several sols to track the progress of the experiment.
Synonyms
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A mixture like milk where tiny solid bits stay spread in a liquid without dissolving
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A liquid with very small solid particles spread evenly through it that do not sink
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sol in chemistry comes from the word solution, which means 'something mixed in a liquid'. Think of tiny solid bits spread through water or another liquid, and you have a sol, a liquid with solid particles in it.