After the Three Gorges Reservoir impounded, due to the rise of ground water, the flabbiness layers in landslides will become soft and collapse when they meet water.
Those decrease the surface tension of fatty stools, allowing them to absorb water and become soft — like how soaps and detergents let water and oils mix when you're washing your hands.
Right, and how you make applesauce is you take slices of apples and you add a little bit of water and you just cook it until the apples all get soft and it becomes like a sauce, a very thick sauce.
Yeah, you just take raw kale and rinse it, and then you add lemon juice and olive oil and salt and pepper and just, you know, massage it until it tenderizes into a nice salad.
The estimated 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of pasta were apparently raw when it was dumped, but subsequent heavy rains softened the food and made the mounds look like they had been cooked, officials said.
And with techniques that were revolutionary for their time, the ancient craftsmen used a simple method: they pounded the clay until it became soft and rolled the clay into strips.
If you add more weight above the surface, they sink lower into the earth's hot interior, and when they sink far enough, they soften and basically melt.