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Discover LudwigThe phrase "thick air" is a perfectly correct and usable idiom in written English.
It usually describes a feeling of tension or physical unease in a particular situation. For example, you could write: "The thick air in the room was palpable as the jury heard the verdict."
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They grimaced in the thick air.
Then came the wind, mild at first, barely moving through the thick air.
Even in this heat, there was the smell of industrial smoke in the thick air.
Cigar smoke floated in the thick air of the tropical night.
Atmosphere is injected into the paintings, but it's a thick air, as if heavy-hearted.
He took a deep breath of the thick air, then turned around, finding his way back toward the steps.
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It is a richly enjoyable selection of novels that scoops you up from 1920s suburban south London to a dig in Turkey in summer 1914; from the deeply imagined inner life of the honeybee to the soup-thick air of an Athens summer to depression-era America.
There are numerous reasons not to take a deep breath this summer, with the beating sun and the ozone-thick air it helps produce, but there are also reasons to breathe more easily, including a federal report indicating that factories and power plants in the state have successfully reduced pollutants.
A 1-μm-thick air gap separates the gate and the substrate.
A scanning electron microscopy [SEM] of a representative device is shown in Figure 2. As clearly shown, one 2-μm-thick air bridge interconnects the top mesa and the pad.
At low frequencies a better performance was achieved for thicker air layers, while at higher frequencies a thinner air layer is preferable.
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