amishra1 wrote:
The petroleum distillates were so viscous that the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees.
This is an idiom related sentence. "So x... thaty"
amishra1 wrote:
Is the following sentence grammatically and meaning-wise correct?
" The petroleum distillates were so viscous; therefore, the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees."
The idea behind the idiom is to stress the gravity of the situation in the first clause and its result in the second clause. In your example,
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