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.
However people with strong bones can delay and slow the process of having porous bones.
He has been kept busy behind a porous defence this season. Times, Sunday Times
Two methods of desaturation were used - absorption by porous plate and centrifuge.
In order to study the first of these properties, the porous partition, fixed by a hermetical joint to a glass tube, is immersed in the water (Fig. 2). Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
Blistering paint on metal components may be the first sign of galvanic corrosion, followed by a white powdery buildup on the aluminum surface and finally deep pitting that leaves the aluminum weak and porous.
It's not recommended to roll paint on an acoustic ceiling, as it is very porous.
To bring about the first of these reactions rapidly, a catalyzer is employed, and the process is carried out in the following way: Large iron tubes are packed with some porous material, such as calcium and magnesium sulphates, which contains a suitable catalytic substance scattered through it. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization. Gambara
A knot of walkers wanders up the trail to Weeping Rock, where springs emerge from the base of cliffs at the contact point between porous Navajo sandstone and impermeable Kayenta shale.
Their defence has been porous since the start of the season but crucially it kept a clean sheet in the home victory over the Dutch last week.
Whatever may be the natural character of the soil, unless always well drained by a porous subsoil, the first step toward establishing a good lawn is to secure perfect underdrainage. Village Improvements and Farm Villages
Beads of moisture perspired through the porous walls of the clay jug.
An aquifer is an underground bed of earth, gravel or porous stone that stores water.
Tatiana exuded a porous, evanescent, yet everlasting warmth; her very presence, her satin face in his palm made his back hurt less. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
I try to maintain a very porous barrier between myself and the rest of the world.
To allow the steam to penetrate behind the wallpaper, nonporous wallpaper such as vinyl must first be scored with a puncturing roller or rough sandpaper before steaming.
They won all the battles and and stiffened the defence which had been porous like in the first period.
Coming up next, how the man charged with this country's safety plans to secure our porous southern border.
For when the spirit, or moisture turned to spirit, has escaped from some porous body (as wood, bone, parchment, and the like), then the grosser parts are with stronger effort drawn and collected together; whence ensues induration or desiccation, which I take to be owing not so much to the motion of connection to prevent a vacuum as to this motion of friendship and union. The New Organon
The fact that it journeyed unimpeded to its final destination was offered as alarming proof of the porousness of our ports.
Otherwise we get a philosophy that tends to become insubstantial and vaporous.
In the solvent-permeable and ion- penetrable porous surface layer of the particle, idealized hydrodynamic frictional segments with fixed charges are assumed to distribute at a uniform density.
A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
Porosity is defined as the ratio of the volume of pores, or void space, in a porous material to the bulk volume of the material, which includes both solids and voids.
What that would tell Woodward was all about the porous defences rather than exhilarating attacks.
The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.
After playing porously and leaving the Eagles trailing by 17-0 in the previous two games, Philadelphia's defense regained its familiar unassailability.
It is certainly true that the purer is the acetylene burnt, both as regards freedom from phosphorus and absence of products of polymerisation, the longer do the burners last; and it has been claimed that a burner constructed at its jets of some non-porous substance, e.g., "ruby," does not choke as quickly as do steatite ones. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
This really shook the home side, whose own defence also looked a little on the porous side.
Cells are grown on a standard microporous membrane, which is then transferred directly to the cuvette from the growth medium. The Scientist
Twenty-two per cent of the woods have scalariform perforation plates, and 29% are semi-ring porous.
The cells, which run on a methanol-water mixture, can be mass-produced using a lithographic process to ‘print’ the metal electrodes and catalysts onto a porous plastic film.
Indeed, dark epoxy grouts can permanently stain the porous varieties.
The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.
The porous acetabulum may be secured with screws to allow cancellous bone ingrowth.
He has been kept busy behind a porous defence this season. Times, Sunday Times
Like almost all of Elsheimer's paintings, this story-within-a-landscape is small, just 12¼ inches by 16¼ inches, and painted on copper, whose smooth, nonporous surface intensifies the luminosity of the oil paint, makes his colors sparkle, and sharpens his minute details. The Story Within a Landscape
Each becomes more porous as ideas flow between them. The Times Literary Supplement
An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
Porous woven ceilings under the tile roofs are made of local wood laths woven in the traditional way as they often are in fences and partitions.
About 40 still exist, but they have become more porous and have struggled to pay their bills. Times, Sunday Times
This paper mainly discussed about the research on microbubbles generation by metal microporous tube, it is a new method of bubble formation.
That porous layer, which contains stabilized zirconia and small amounts of the metals ruthenium and cerium, chemically and cleanly converts the fuel to hydrogen.
The captain's massive influence will be lost at a time when United's porous defence is allowing precious league points to leak away.
Dirt, weeds and sawdust adhere to the paint, forming porous cavities and rough, spongelike surfaces.
The three investigators found that a porous clay called montmorillonite, already known to encourage the linking of nucleic acids, also has an effect on fatty acids, the building blocks of cell membranes.
Walls consist of a porous network of cellulose fibrils, hemicellulose, pectins, and glycoproteins.
But, when she raised an arm, when she advanced a foot, it was easy to perceive that she possessed feline suppleness, short, potent muscles, and that unmistakable energy and passion slumbered in her soporous frame. Theresa Raquin
So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars. Tom Cringle's Log
It was demonstrated that porous HA/TCP has bone inductivity and it could induce new bone formation at non-osseous site.
In hot weather clothes made of a porous material like cotton are best.
Part of the dismal run is the team's porous defence which has conceded an incredible 52 goals in 29 matches.
In their second study, the researchers inserted a novel macroporous layer into the silicon-based microfuel cell. Latest Articles
It's non-porous and fairly heat-resistant, though matt surfaces can scratch. Times, Sunday Times
The present invention proposes exonuclease III digesting double stranded nucleic acid molecule coated in microporous plate and containing special marker to detect transcription factor protein.
2 Skinner, The origin of medical terms (1961), 2nd edition, p.406 (see link): "Latin - tophus or tofus, from the Greek τόφος, a loose, porous, kind of stone (Hebrew, toph). The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
That gave their heavy stone foundations time to settle into the porous clay ground.
Plastic sheeting covered by newspaper saves all flooring, is nonporous, makes any cleanup easy and is inexpensive to purchase.
Swimming is helpful for bones that are porous and weak.
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Employing a process called "electrophoresis," researchers who study DNA typically embed negatively charged DNA into a porous hydrogel. R&D Mag - News
Shaped microporous articles are produced from polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and nucleating agents using thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) processes.
If considered irrespective of depth, limestones and dolomitic limestones are more porous than dolostones, whereas at burial depths of greater than 2000 m dolostones are significantly more porous and permeable than limestones.
The other method consists in pumping acetylene under pressure into a cylinder apparently quite full of some highly porous solid matter, like charcoal, kieselguhr, unglazed brick, &c. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
Similarly, cortical bone is less prone to diagenetic contamination than porous, cancellous bone tissue.
In a rigid porous material, the normal component is clamped by viscosity and cannot move.
Blagdon supply Bio-Filter Medium high-grade semi porous light clay granules with a large surface area.
It should be noted that the inner shell wall of ammonoids was lined by an organic membrane or pellicle, a porous sheet consisting of numerous interwoven organic fibers.
But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things.
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Apparently the thick, nonporous tape kills the wart by asphyxiating it or something.
Tortolano fed Weir and he touched the ball on to McGinlay, who ran through a porous home defence to score easily.
The structure was built of a local porous tuff or travertine and brick, arranged in patterns. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The porousness of the ‘nation’ as a category is most tellingly exhibited in the case of American subjects.
In broad terms, the border between moral influence and supernatural transformation was a porous one in Victorian culture, one that was crossed and re-crossed with regularity.
Alloy wheels can become porous over time due to corrosion caused in part by the weather and salt on the roads, though this can be aggravated by the soapy water some tyre fitters use to help slide new tyres into place.
If paint fails because of penetration of rain and dew through porous paint, clean and prepare the paint surface.
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He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.
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Of course, I know that an odour of peach-blossom in the air, resulting in death, could only be associated with some vaporous effluvium of cyanogen, or of hydrocyanic ( 'prussic') acid, or of both; and when I at last managed to examine some of the dust under the microscope, I was not therefore surprised to find, among the general mass of purplish ash, a number of bright-yellow particles, which could only be minute crystals of potassic ferrocyanide. The Purple Cloud
Both of these genera are heterosporous, meaning that each species produces two distinctly different types of spores: microspores and megaspores.
We equation in fractal porous media , and present reiterated two - scale probabilistic model and numerical method.
Because hair is porous, it absorbs moisture, which activates curl.
He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.
Janus is a Slovakian kid that Red Line was high on last year for the draft, but he was inexplicably not selected after a fine rookie campaign where he was shell shocked by a lot of rubber behind a porous defense. Red Line: Few diamonds, mostly rough in 2009 goalie class
England needed to chase a second because the defence remains porous. Times, Sunday Times
Braising in wine or a highly-seasoned stock allows porous mushrooms to absorb other flavors.
Not in the group stages of these two tournaments, however, did their defence appear so porous and their attack so unremarkable.
A porous defence and inability to score away from home has seen them almost drop out of the race for a top-six spot. Times, Sunday Times
An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation the next. Tinkers: Summary and book reviews of Tinkers by Paul Harding.
Thus, the chaste woman was sealed, impermeable; the unchaste woman was porous, incontinent.
Mr Salmond said that Scotland is well placed to lead the world in the technology because of its geological assets - mainly former oil and gas fields and an abundance of porous rock, known as saline aquifer. Undefined
The garment repels water but is sufficiently porous to prevent moisture buildup from perspiration.
Carbon aerogels density and well - developcd nano - seale porous structure are a speeial class of carbonaceous non - crystalline materials.
She referred to an unadorned rectangular stone of some porous rock, perhaps two meters wide and three long, strangely scarred in places. Dwellers in the Crucible
Heathers and heaths need full sun and good drainage is vital, so containers and window boxes should be made of terracotta, stone or wood, never non-porous plastic or glazed pottery.
The writer goes on to describe granite as a ‘porous stone, meaning it can be easily stained.’
It was years later when Mark began to phone suddenly, out of the vaporous, evanescent blue. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The ripe and green fruit are placed round about the stem or trunk, from the lowermost leaves, where the ripe fruit are, and upwards almost to the top; the heart or inmost pithy part of the trunks is in a manner hollow, or at best consists of very thin porous medullae or membranes; the tree very seldom branches or divides into limbs, I believe never unless the top is by accident broken off when very young: I saw one which had two tops or heads, the stem of which divided near the earth. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
The border in this region is porous and many refugees have simply walked across.
Methods The baicalin, extracted by microwave, purified with acid, ultrafilter and macroporous resin respectively, and the purity of baicalin were quantitatively determined with HPLC.
The Australian ‘Nilagiris’ owe their name to a vaporous blue haze exuded by the eucalyptus gum.
It is said that, in some parts of Italy, a species of stone is used for this purpose, which is described as being of two different kinds; the one is found in the chalk hills near Naples, and has a white, porous, stalactical appearance; the other is a hardened turf from some volcanic mountains near Florence. The Book of Household Management
What's harder to accept, from an author for whom character has always been paramount, is the lack of dimensionality in both Hector and Sylvie, who manage to seem vaporous and wooden at the same time ... The Surrendered: Summary and book reviews of The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee.
One easy thing homeowners can do is disconnect their downspouts, redirecting rainwater from roofs out onto porous ground.
Season, then transfer to a nonporous container and place in the fridge to chill for 3 hours. Times, Sunday Times
The ceramic porous material is chosen to make restrictor and the restriction parameters related to the bearing is deduced aimed at the special form and qualification of the water-lubricated bearing.
And this soporous allurement is intensified by a dead hush. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
An aerogel is a porous network of silica strands with diameters of a few nanometres.
For now, a porous central defence and a drop in concentration at the end of matches is a concern. Times, Sunday Times
Hardness gives way to porousness, drawing you in but also inhibiting entry. Beauty That's No Illusion
Now, thanks to modern architecture and a porous defense, neither is a problem.
He could not seem to hurt him, his defence was shockingly porous, and during most exchanges Sturm was a split-second ahead.
If the flashing looks sound but is obviously porous, clean the surface thoroughly with a wire brush.
Porous, relatively soft, fine-textured and somewhat friable, chalk normally is white and consists almost wholly of calcium carbonate as the common mineral calcite.
Based on the data, they try to describe around 10 features, including the porousness of the rock, the size of the reservoir, and the degree to which the reservoir is saturated with water instead of oil.
Moreover, they can also be seen as potential shape-selective catalysts by analogy with the porous minerals, zeolites.
These aluminosilicates form porous structures whose cavities can act as storage for ions and molecules.
When desired for this purpose some porous or fibrous substance, such as asbestos, is soaked in a solution of platinic chloride and then ignited. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
Author: Ryan EnglishReplacement of hair is one of the procedures followed by hair expert to cure the hair loss problem Baldness of, men and women can be cured by replacement of hair The replacement of hair is done through two methods surgical and non surgical hair replacement A surgical replacement involves the transplantation of hair from one area of the scalp to the bald area The strip from donor area is operated out carefully and that strip is a follicle unit which is grafted further according to the hair of the affected person The follicle units are implanted in the hair line where the re growth of hair is not possible This surgical replacement takes five to six hours to complete Based on the type of the hair problem this time limit may vary to less than this or more During this surgical treatment doctors use to give anesthesia to the affected person to over come the discomfort while transplanting the hair After five or six months duration from the date of hair transplantation the affected person can comb and style his hair like the other Hair replacement is the technique which proved to attain the redistribution of hair, here by let aware about the non surgical hair replacement treatment The polyurethane layer is attached on the scalp which tends to be an outer layer of skin because it is very thin transparent layer The human hair is implanted in the layer before the attachment The perfect match of hair is identified by checking the hair density, hair color, and hair waves The injecting of these matched hairs in to the base membrane would take eight weeks Polyurethane membrane is very thin layer as the scalp skin is visible through the layer; it's like a cover of the epidermis So it's known as liquid skin Many celebrities and sports man highly prefer this non surgical hair replacement because no restriction to get involve in water activities and other sports activities which is an major advantage of non surgical hair replacement treatment The first step in non surgical hair replacement is to create the mould of the patient scalp which is used to structure the polyurethane membrane of thin layer So it accurately fit on the scalp of the person The membrane can be customized to fit only to the area of hair loss It's a porous membrane attached with the use of medical adhesive namely hypoallergenic, sweat and water activities will not affect this adhesive This procedure is completely painless A usual hair wash can be taken; hence it is porous layer the scalp will also get cleaned during the hair bath The monofilament and lace are the other two membranes available to use as a thin layer It all allows the skin to get clean and breathe Hence non surgical hair replacement is very beneficial than other treatments Related Articles: Hair Loss Treatment Products Hair Loss in WomenSyndication Source: We Blog A Lot
So the sanctions, belated and porous though they were, did have some limited effect.
The raw material used for terracotta jewellery is porous type of lean clay, and that is where it becomes different from metals such as gold, silver, platinum, and copper.
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In alkaline soils of arid and semiarid areas a white, nonporous layer composed mainly of calcium carbonate and known as caliche, can form in this horizon, and if it is too close to the surface it may cause problems with root growth and drainage (Box 9.3). 5. How plants live and grow
The cupel is necessarily porous, and particles of metal may perhaps drain into it, more especially if the bone ash is not in fine powder; but if this is the main source of loss it is hard to see why, in cupelling equal weights of silver and gold, the loss is not equal in each case. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
The effective stress formulation for gas-saturated coal is derived by introducing the swell stress of gas adsorption into the effective stress principle of porous media.
Folded planes and porous, exterior materials like perforated metal are the norm these days.
There was something strangely soothing about having my Aveda Himalayan treatment in a small cave with walls as porous as pumice and pitted as a peach stone.
The meaning of the term osteoporosis originates from osteo, meaning bone, and porosis which implies thinning or getting more porous. WN.com - Articles related to These old eyes
The area is covered with layers of basalt, porous volcanic rock that has been collecting rain and snowmelt in underground aquifers for millions of years.
In his review article Professor Derby looks at experiments where porous structures have been made through bioprinting.
He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.
Their underlying design is a spiraling vortex, in which undulating waters magically metamorphose into watered silk, velvet into vaporous cloud and firmament.
The team will focus on fundamentals in an effort to improve its porous run defense.
It was years later when Mark began to phone suddenly, out of the vaporous, evanescent blue. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
It is by nature a very porous material and often cannot be completely restored.
Buyer beware: Some dealers may try to justify the porousness and pockmarks of lower-end stone as naturally occurring imperfections that are a stylistic choice, say contractors. How You Should Talk So the IRS Will Listen
Paints should be microporous, water-based and flexible, so that they move with the timber rather than flake. Times, Sunday Times
Capillary action of the porous material pulls the ammonia borane into the pores of the support.
On the vehicles concerned , the coolant fluid level sensor may be porous.
This experimental study focused on the sediment trap effect of porous check dam and closed type check dam.
A single slab is also a practical option because it's easier to clean than a surface broken up by porous grout lines.
Soft and unnatural synthetic bristles are best; natural bristles are more porous and tend to harbor oral bacteria.
“When we first started, we noticed that it was not very porous and had a difficult time mixing in with the soil, so we developed a machine to granulate the manure.” Flushed
Because of its porous eastern border and geostrategic position in the center of Europe, this country is one of the main transit points for illegal migrants.
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Border porousness and security is already a big deal in the border states and the farther away we get from 9/11, the less national attention there is on the issues. There Ain't No Getting Over It
The body features a maple top over a "honeycombed" ash core, i.e. the body is porous, i.e. chambered, i.e. you got the picture from the term Gearwire -
The pieces, which are mostly thin-walled, are made in bright white porcelain and have an almost porous-looking unglazed finish which adds to the pure look.
Another is a rounded piece of clinker, a porous material that results from the burning of coal seams.
Each becomes more porous as ideas flow between them. The Times Literary Supplement
The porous substance is composed of dehydrogenated silicon dioxide filled with gas. Cool Hunting
England needed to chase a second because the defence remains porous. Times, Sunday Times
He chased down his own grubber to be the next man to take advantage of the porous Lancashire defence.
The porous HA/PU scaffold provides a good perspective for designable tissue-engineering scaffolds.
The quick pace also has helped keep the porous defense more alert and involved.
Using the sources of heat before mentioned, and employing diathermanous lenses, or silvered minors, to render the rays from those sources parallel, the absorption of radiant heat was determined, first for the liquid layer, and then for its equivalent vaporous layer. Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
The burning microporous alumina-carbon brick has good service performance and is a new quality refractory for the area from hearth to middle part of stack.
The quick deposition of these sediments resulted in clay compaction and the isolation of porous and permeable sand with impermeable shales.
Vunjak-Novakovic G, Min BH, Kaplan DL (2005) Influence of macroporous protein scaffolds on bone tissue engineering from bone marrow stem cells. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Now, thanks to modern architecture and a porous defense, neither is a problem.
He correctly surmised that the solid component of the gel was microporous, and that the pore structure collapsed due to the liquid-vapor surface tension forces of the evaporating liquid.
Tatiana exuded a porous, evanescent, yet everlasting warmth; her very presence, her satin face in his palm made his back hurt less. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
Originally Delphi manifested the Goddess of Prophecy in a vaporous cave where fumes induced visionary trances.
This vessel was incompletely oxidized during firing and has large amounts of grog and bone temper in its porous clay body.
Might this involve walking tours and buggy rides along reconfigured paths, freshly coated with porous asphalt and punctuated with carefully structured picturesque garden views of heterosexual couples and their strapping, handsome kids in familial bliss, complemented with scenes of equally heterosexual deers, birds and bunnies? Archive 2007-02-01
Diego Corrales has been criticized for having a porous defense but his asset is definite power in either hand.
Results show that the smaller the particle size of pulverized coal, the greater the porous volume, the lower the burning temperature, and the higher the burn-away rate.
Because of its very porous nature, charcoal has the particularly high ratio of surface area to weight required of an absorptive material.
Microporous filters that are more electropositive than the negatively charged filters currently used for virus concentrations from water by filter adsorption-elution methods were evaluated for poliovirus recovery from tap water.
There are also bonding agents that increase the milk paint's ability to adhere to non-porous surfaces, as well as powdered milk paint removers.
There was something strangely soothing about having my Aveda Himalayan treatment in a small cave with walls as porous as pumice and pitted as a peach stone.
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of England's performance was their porous defence. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, the volume of water drained from the porous specimen is indeed the change of volume of specimen, which can directly be measured using a burette or an electronic weighing scale.
EOR techniques have been in use since the 1970s, when they mostly involved injecting seawater into reservoirs in order to maintain pressure and squeeze more oil from the porous, sponge-like rock where it is deposited. Mideast Oil Recovery Enters New Phase
Tooth enamel is much less porous than bone and dentine, and it has greater inorganic content, density, and crystallinity.
The idealized prototype of a southern Tuscan antimony deposit can be described as an irregular mineralization situated in the upper part of a highly porous limestone unit, usually the Calcare Cavernoso ( "vuggy limestone"), overlain by an impermeable unit, normally a flysch-type rock. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
White phosporous (MK77) used by Saddam on the Kurds is considered a war crime, and guess who is using in Iraq now? Think Progress » Administration Breaks Pledge Not To Comment On Ongoing Investigation
Sulfur and manganese will react with porous platinum electrode of oxygen sensor and deteriorate sensibility from lean oxygen content to rich one.
Bassett, with his own eyes, saw color and colors transform into sound till the whole visible surface of the vast sphere was acrawl and titillant and vaporous with what he could not tell was color or was sound. The Red One
The current study will focus on a well-characterized model porous medium built from monodisperse silica nanospheres concentrated suspensions. Naturejobs - All Jobs
Watered-down paint soaks into the porous concrete so it won't flake or peel like surface paint does.
This includes opals, turquoise, malachite, pearls, amber, coral, shells, and similar soft or porous materials.
A freestanding battery separator includes a microporous polymer web with passageways that provide overall fluid permeability.
For instance, the new moonlet might be quite porous, like an orbiting icy rubble pile. Other moons near the outer edge of Saturn's rings - like Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora - are also porous.
The articles also deal with the synthesis of polymeric dendrimers, either by the convergent or divergent approach; block copolymers synthesis, to define micromorphology in high performance polymers; and thereby tailoring their thermal, chemical, mechanical and dielectrical properties, and finally kinetics and thermodynamics for microstructural organization in macroporous thermosets. AvaxHome RSS:
Never store leather in plastic bags or other nonporous covers or containers.
A porous paper may absorb a lot of the ink and as a result, the colors may be lighter.

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