AT black-tie dinners, on a beach in Florida, even in his sleep, David Mintz is thinking tofu - that spongy white substance with an origin no one seems quite sure of.

This aberration consists of a bizarre, spongy substance which hovers through telekinesis in the air, enveloped in a mysterious glow of yellow, white, green or blue.

I could open the neck - it's lined with some sort of light spongy substance.

Immediately the sodium amalgam began changing into a loosely-packed, spongy substance.

The hross produced an oval platter of some tough but slightly flexible material, covered it with strips of a spongy, orange-coloured substance and gave it to Ransom.

Bone marrow is the spongy substance found in the center of the long bones of the body.

A specific examples of a borderline hydride CuH, cupric hydride, that appears as a spongy reddish-brown substance is a moderate reducing agent.

It was filled with a greenish-brown spongy substance that pressed out against the silver openwork.

The object he was holding was a cube of what appeared to be a black, spongy substance.

The spongy substance forming the electrode must be free from any trace of electrolytic substances.