How To Use Teredo In A Sentence
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This process took years, as the polyethylene glycol soaked into the wood and replaced the fibers of the wood lost to the ocean. unlike many ship wreck the Vasa was not attacked by teredo worms the bane to wooden ships before the advent of affixing a copper bottom.
Archive 2008-05-04
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Sharks have been known to decide to bite them, there were worms called Teredo worms, which used to like to eat the gutta percha, which was used to insulate the copper wire at the core of the cable.
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A caterpillar also is engendered in hives, of a species nicknamed the teredo, or ‘borer’, with which creature the bee never interferes.
The History of Animals
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In early wooden ships, a sheathing of metallic copper was used to protect the timbers from being invaded by shipworms known as teredos - worms that bore into wood and weaken its structure.
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A salt-water creature very destructive to shipping and the wharves is the teredo, or ship-worm.
Stories of California
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The drunken man teeteredon the edge of the pavement.
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The protection was needed only during the time the caisson was afloat and before it was entirely submerged below the riverbed, where the sea worm, the teredo, never penetrates.
The Great Bridge
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In the age of wooden ships, teredos and other wood-borers were a tremendous problem.
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Fossil wood with _Teredo antenautæ_ is also met with, and pyritous casts of univalve and bivalve shells.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Around the same time, an invasive worm called the teredo ravaged the docks and pilings along the waterfront, and periodic fires wiped out most of the buildings.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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She did not sustain any serious damage in the Baltic Sea where the water is too cold for ship worms (teredos) to survive.
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The refitting included covering the wooden hull with copper sheets to protect it from teredo worms and to discourage barnacles and other marine organisms from fouling (and thereby, slowing) the ship.
Reclaiming the Bounty
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I first became acquainted with teredos while working on wooden boats in the San Francisco Bay area.
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We have found, however, that a little marine wretch called the teredo attacks hemp so greedily that we've had to invent a new compound wherewith to coat it, namely, ground flint or silica, pitch, and tar, which gives the teredo the toothache, I suppose, for it turns him off effectually.
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
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The wooden pieces consisted of some side planks and a piece of a frame, while the metal pieces included bronze (copper) nails and pieces of the lead sheathing that would have protected the hull below the waterline from the wood-devouring teredo worm and rot.
Interactive Dig Black Sea: Synopsis
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It has been tried before but the bamboo became completely waterlogged and eaten by teredos before the Pacific was half crossed.
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Miredo is an open-source (GPL) user-space teredo implementation for linux and BSD.
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Analysis of the wood revealed that it had been infested by teredo ship worms, which are native to the Caribbean.
Before the Big Apple
