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How To Use porous In A Sentence

• Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms. Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Press Release
• Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials. A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
• His time in the war rose between us like a vaporous cloud that silenced his pain and obscured my ability to understand it.
• If the heat has been moderate, and not continued too long, the golden-coloured fcaly porous mafsj called aurum mu - fivum, will be found at the bottom of the veflel; but, if it has been too ftroitg, the - aurum mufivum fufes to a black mafs of a ftriated texture. The first principles of chemistry
• The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins. What Lies Below?
• To start, pour a small amount of dry pigment forming a mound onto a nonporous slab surface, such as glass or marble; then, make an impression in the center of the mound and, into that, pour a small amount of linseed or other oil. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints
• Porous volcanic rock called pumice and Southern pine bark. Dispatch.com: RSS
• The printer leaves regular air gaps in the construction to give the pill its highly porous structure. Times, Sunday Times
• His defence could be porous. Times, Sunday Times
• This is too neat to be true, and doesn't sufficiently acknowledge the porousness of the boundaries between fiction and life.