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- Sial is considered extremely rude if applied as a sentence enhancer.en.wikipedia.org
- Based on the change in velocity of seismic waves, it is believed that at a certain depth sial becomes close in its physical properties to sima.en.wikipedia.org
- The sial is generally absent in the ocean floor where the crust is a few kilometers thick, while the continents are huge solid blocks tens of kilometers thick.en.wikipedia.org
- The continental crust and the oceanic crust are sometimes called sial and sima respectively.en.wikipedia.org
- Sial has a mean density of 2.7-2.8 grams per cubic centimeter.en.wikipedia.org
- It is sometimes equated with the continental crust because it is absent in the wide oceanic basins, but sial is a geochemical term rather than a plate tectonic term.en.wikipedia.org
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