The phrase "a pool of liquid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a collection or accumulation of liquid in a specific area or shape.
Example: "After the rain, there was a pool of liquid gathered in the low spot of the yard."
Alternatives: "a body of liquid" or "a collection of liquid."
So how could a pool of liquid mercury do the same job?
Heat from its flame melts a pool of liquid fuel that slithers up the wick by capillary action and vaporises.
Riddick even undergoes a ritual purification, emerging from a pool of liquid like Martin Sheen's psychotic warrior in "Apocalypse Now".
The image of a Mrs. Soyla, preparing a meal at a table, with sunlight hitting the surfaces of two big jugs and two small bowls, and turning her apron into a pool of liquid light, is a lovely rustic Vermeer.
Inspectors said they found listeria on a dolly used to transport cheese throughout the plant, on the aprons of food handlers and in a pool of liquid in a storage area.
Within a pool of liquid water, some molecules are continually escaping from the liquid into the space above, while more and more vapour molecules return to the liquid as the concentration of vapour rises.
In the PVP solution, the separated ethanol vapor caused intermittent stoppage of the spinning process and sometimes spurted a pool of liquids.
Dr. Tony Allegro, a filmmaker and professor at the University of Miami, is a passionate Brakhage fan who suffers from a condition (he did not state its name) that occasionally causes a pooling of liquid in the center of his eye; horizontal shapes become vertical, and colours become distorted.
This shape could be a pool of a liquid, for instance.
As is often the case, the show is anchored by some bravura object-making, in this case a life-size, quite realistic glazed ceramic sculpture of a giant squid resting in a pool of dark liquid.
Every day, we take people to surgery and open their abdomens, and, broadly speaking, we know what we will find: not eels or tiny chattering machines or a pool of blue liquid but coils of bowel, a liver to one side, a stomach to the other, a bladder down below.
