Sodium montmorillonite can be freeze-dried into a spongelike material known as an aerogel. 蒙脱土可以被冷冻干燥成一种叫做气凝胶的海绵状材料。
The excretion of a small, harmless, snake-shaped creature known as the coral grubb, coralite is spongelike in appearance. 珊瑚岩是一种细小无害,蛇状,叫作珊瑚虫的生物的排泄物,外形像海绵。
Chris Davidson of Durham University, who has written a history of the emirate, describes it as a "spongelike economy", designed to absorb foreign money. 达拉谟大学的克里斯•戴维森为这个酋长国撰写了一部史书,把其比作“海绵经济”,即为吸取外资而服务。