When the user ceases to apply physical pressure to the centre of the outside of the cup, the elastic substance of which the cup is made tends to resume its original, curved shape.

Like sharks, it has a boneless skeleton made of cartilage, a tough, elastic substance composed of collagenous and/or elastic fibers, cells, and a firm, gel-like substance called the matrix.

The material of the belt was of some special elastic substance that would easily stretch to accommodate the much-thicker body he wore as a Changed selkie.

Then the blade rebounded as if he had struck at some indestructible elastic substance.

It was a soft elastic substance, warm to the touch ... A strange city, thought Ulan Dhor, a strange people, reacting to unguessed compulsions.

Gluten is the elastic substance in flour that captures bubbles of carbon dioxide from the yeast and helps the bread to rise.

It aids in the digestion of several proteins, including elastin, an elastic substance in the lungs and other organs that is part of their structural framework.

It is to be noticed also that the gum habit differs from the tobacco habit in that the aromatic and elastic substance is masticated, while the tobacco never is, and that the mastication leads to nothing except more mastication.

The beds, enveloped in mosquito curtains, had their pillows, mattresses, and bolsters filled with that fresh and elastic substance which in the Upper Amazon is yielded by the bombax.

Unlike purely elastic substances, a viscoelastic substance has an elastic component and a viscous component.