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thicken
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plot thickens
Things are becoming more complicated or interesting. The police assumed that the woman was murdered by her ex-husband, but he has an alibi. The plot thickens. John is supposed to be going out with Mary, but I saw him last night with Sally. The plot thickens.
See also: plot

thicken something up 

1. to make something, such as a fluid, thicker. I have to thicken this gravy up before we can serve dinner. Please thicken up the gravy before you serve it.
2. to make something wider. See this line here? You need to thicken it up so that it shows more clearly. Try to thicken up the line a little.
See also: up

The plot thickens.  (humorous)
something that you say when something happens which makes a strange situation even more difficult to understand I had assumed the Irishman who keeps phoning June was her husband, but it seems her husband is American. The plot thickens.
See lose the plot
See also: plot

the plot thickens
something has become more complicated or interesting The plot thickens as police investigate dozens of deaths at a California hospital.
See also: plot


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In conclusion, the main objective in formulating sulfate-free personal and pet cleansers is to choose the right surfactants and the appropriate thickener system which complement each other and provide an optimum cost/performance effective formulation.
The products act synergistically with associative thickeners and reinforces the thickener networks, stabilizing the tinted system.
Particle image velocimetry (PIV) profiles are considered in the perspective of the dynamic uniaxial extensional viscosity (DUEV) of the coatings and an effort to understand the results in terms of the structural aspects of the thickener molecules is undertaken.
 
 
 
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