The phrase "absence of a solid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or technical contexts to describe a situation where a solid material is not present.
Example: "The experiment demonstrated the absence of a solid in the reaction mixture, indicating that all reactants were in a gaseous state."
Alternatives: "lack of a solid" or "nonexistence of a solid".
At the same time, the focus group participants expressed deep concern over the moral direction of the country, and what they perceived as the absence of a solid sense of values being passed on to the nation's children.
Transformed cells may differ from their normal progenitors by continuing to proliferate at very high densities, in the absence of growth factors, or in the absence of a solid substrate for support.
The list of obstacles is daunting, including both longstanding troubles — the shortage of skilled labor, the absence of a solid legal system, deeply embedded corruption and dilapidated infrastructure — as well as new ones, including surprisingly high prices.
The absence of a solid alliance would have guaranteed a victory for the Dominican Revolutionary Party, or P.R.D. "The program of the P.L.D. is for the general good of the country and not for our organization's or any individual's interest," Mr. Medina said.
The full picture starts way back with your sexual encounter and the deception it entailed, the circumstances that led to the pregnancy, the absence of a solid agreement about your role (or lack of one) in the girl's life, the choice to let the husband think the child was his and so on.
As the difficult realities of government become steadily plainer to Mr. Morsi and his administration — and in the absence of a solid plan for which Egypt can win long-awaited financial backing from the International Monetary Fund — short-term solutions are increasingly likely to take precedence over the project.
The favourites are getting heavy in League Two, presenting us with a weekend when the preferred course of action is to dabble on a couple of speculative long shots in the absence of a single solid wager.
In the absence of any solid ideas as to what the government might do to solve our ticking time bomb of a housing situation, Barwell wants the private sector to "innovate" solutions to the crisis.
"In the absence of any solid information about Levinson's whereabouts, it has been impossible to judge whether publication would put him at risk," said AP vice-president and executive editor Kathleen Carroll, who called the publication of the piece a "difficult decision".
With respect to the specific antioxidants studied, their selection was based on epidemiological and observational data, and in the absence of any solid grasp of the underlying mechanisms of action.
However, in the absence of any solid estimates of phylogeny and divergence times for the genus and of comprehensive sampling of the 40-50 specins in the genus, the timing and location of transfer and the phylogenetic distribution of the intron within the genus are uncertain.
