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coalesce

(kō-ăl-ĕs′) [L. coalescere]
To fuse; to run or grow together.
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Properties of coalesced and adjacent uncoalesced surface soils were assessed at selected sites on 15 commercial orchards.
Degradation of soil structure due to coalescence of aggregates in no-till, no-traffic beds in irrigated crops
That's the maximum number of Neptunes that could have coalesced from the amount of ice, dust, and gas particles that then inhabited the solar system's outskirts, notes Chiang.
Outer limits: solar system at the fringe
Melosh's calculations suggest that when the comet coalesced, it did so at pressures and temperatures too low for water to be liquid.
Deep impact: a spacecraft breaks open a comet's secrets
If Titan coalesced near Saturn, as Owen proposes, the fledgling moon could have easily incorporated ammonia.
The Huygens chronicles: unveiling Titan
Because the Big Bang forged only hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium, the first stars coalesced in the absence of heavier atoms.
Cosmic primitive: old star sheds light on early stellar formation
According to the most widely accepted scenario, a Mars-size rock slammed into the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, spewing material that coalesced into the moon.
Moon story waxes fuller
According to Boss, even if a Jovian planet took a few million years to form, as in the core-accretion model, that's still not enough time for Earth-size planets to have coalesced in the inner part of a protoplanetary disk.
Too darn hot: an abundance of alien earths
Star-forming galaxies were common when the universe was young, but most apparently coalesced into even larger galaxies.
Young and near: baby galaxies roam our backyard
Another possibility is that Phoebe coalesced near its present location from the nebula of dust, gas, and ice that swaddled the young sun.
Portrait of Phoebe: Cassini images a large Saturn moon
CLUSTER CONNECTION In addition to studying explosions inside individual galaxies, astronomers are also trying to glimpse dark energy's effects by determining when and how dusters of galaxies coalesced.
Dark doings: searching for signs of a force that may be everywhere ... or nowhere

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