By contrast, if no solid nucleus is present as a liquid cools, it tends to become supercooled.

But a solid nucleus remained to tackle the problem.

That is a solid nucleus to build around.

"They give us a good solid nucleus of frontline talent," the general manager said.

Initially, a spherical solid nucleus grows in the undercooled melt.

A little world that was the solid nucleus of this vast, mysterious wanderer of the void!

"There's a really solid nucleus here," Fisher said.

But at a diameter of as much as 190 miles, the solid nucleus was almost 40 times larger than that of a typical comet.

We had a solid nucleus we wanted to try to keep in place going in there.

The store has managed to retain a solid nucleus of customers whose families have patronized it for generations.