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...with it other objects firmly attached to or gripped by it. The necessary pressure is one the average [[human]] can easily provide by pressing firmly with a p ...just as it is to enter it, but the pressure needed is only about half the pressure to enter, so leaving crystal worlds is usually easier than entering them.

...e entity supposedly at its head. There is, however, tremendous ''social'' pressure to worship Bhaluhd, and those who refuse to engage in the attendant rituals

...y developing from blood vessels, maintaining the thing's form by hydraulic pressure. This contributes to the gry's flexibility, while little diminishing its s

...s of Kadis United is literally at the center of the planet, in a high-tech pressure-resistant structure accessible only through its [[duplicator]]s.

...ave [[flow valve|valve]]s all along their sides that yield easily to light pressure, taking anything outside them into the vessel and, conversely, expelling an ...gravity, particularly near the platforms, but never enough to build up a [[pressure]] of much more than 100 [[pascal|megapascals]]. Meanwhile, the gravity is

...a nogan can focus the force over a very small [[area]], creating a high [[pressure]] capable of stabbing through [[skin]] and [[flesh]]. Because this takes s

...known to try to sabotage the Condescent's operations, and to put political pressure against the organization. Some nations that particularly rely on slave lab

The iorx has no hard skeleton, and maintains its form by hydraulic pressure and by a special protein in its skin that it can harden and soften at will.

...ge]] about five times the [[viscosity]] of [[air]] at normal [[atmospheric pressure]], strictly speaking this isn't true. Rather, the spacemist exerts an [[ap

...concessions from other blocs by encouraging the blocs' own citizens to put pressure on them.

...ee does have the ability to move its branches slowly through [[hydrostatic pressure]], but is mostly incapable of fine or rapid movement, and cannot move its t

...t themselves, such as a shade's leaving an object behind to weigh down a [[pressure plate]] in full confidence that the object will later return to their posse

...fertilizes]] as they exit her [[cloaca]]. Durable enough to withstand the pressure of the mating azagogs as they twist in each other's clutch, the eggs tend t

...|drone]]s, in others by [[sein]]s specially designed to withstand the high pressure and temperature and the unusual chemical makeup, and in still others by the

...ugh trade dress is not actually legally enforced, there is enormous social pressure to follow it; someone who does not wear trade dress will be assumed to be e

...dless, he seems incapable of generating any hard or sharp surfaces, so the pressure he can exert with his limbs is limited, and they make poor weapons except p

...r, have several regular trading partners, several of which do exert enough pressure on the nation to operate as ''de facto'' overseers. The most prominent of

...le sensitivity to [[heat]] or [[cold]], but can detect minute changes of [[pressure]] and [[position]], so a balbaramba can get a good idea of the [[texture]]

...s—autocracies more by threat of punishment, democracies more by peer pressure—but both are much better at doing so than are anocracies which aren't

...by a vocal tract which is at some point constricted or stopped to build up pressure and produce different sounds. Though vowels can vary based on the shape of