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. |
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A single slab is also a practical option because it's easier to clean than a surface broken up by porous grout lines. |
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This allows photocatalytic oxidation of organics using a porous titanium dioxide membrane. |
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The porous acetabulum may be secured with screws to allow cancellous bone ingrowth. |
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The forces have tried to seal the notoriously porous border using high-technology sensors that monitor movement by night. |
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Because of its very porous nature, charcoal has the particularly high ratio of surface area to weight required of an absorptive material. |
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By waterproofing the porous concrete, he eliminates the wet surface conditions that cause mildew. |
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Marble is much softer than granite and is highly porous, so it's easily etched by acids. |
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The chips are encoded by generating nanometer-thick layers of porous films on the wafers using a special electrochemical etch. |
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So the sanctions, belated and porous though they were, did have some limited effect. |
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The new porous material could show greater insulating abilities and are interesting as packaging material in microelectronics. |
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The tortuosity of the porous network is rationalized in terms of the ultrastructure known from electron microscopy. |
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But cement is exceptionally tough and not very porous and its use at Fountains has essentially reversed this process. |
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As well, the porous nature of the exudate allows for the wound to breathe, a desirable characteristic of a bioadhesive. |
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In his review article Professor Derby looks at experiments where porous structures have been made through bioprinting. |
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First, after electrophoresis of the proteins through a polyacrylamide gel, they are transferred by blotting to a porous membrane sheet. |
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The multilayer structures generated in porous silicon provide a simple means of optically encoding micrometer-sized particles. |
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Note that unglazed clay saucers are porous, so surfaces underneath can be damaged by the moisture the saucers absorb. |
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The captain's massive influence will be lost at a time when United's porous defence is allowing precious league points to leak away. |
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Capillary action of the porous material pulls the ammonia borane into the pores of the support. |
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This can make the stone porous and allow it to absorb chemicals, including common substances like soap and perfume. |
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This drainage system is made up of a lower layer of rough, nonporous material and an upper layer of porous soil and sand. |
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Absorption is facilitated by manufacture of the cupel from a porous material such as bone ash. |
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They come from a nation contiguous to the U.S. with a long and porous border. |
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Diego Corrales has been criticized for having a porous defense but his asset is definite power in either hand. |
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The propeller spinners used by UAL were large hemispherical domes with a black porous coating of rubber. |
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In a rigid porous material, the normal component is clamped by viscosity and cannot move. |
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This marker is permanent on porous and non-porous surfaces and will write on just about anything. |
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The product is effective when drilling formations that are fractured or vugular and when drilling highly porous formations. |
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These stains penetrate the wood surface, are porous, and do not form a surface film like paint. |
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That gave their heavy stone foundations time to settle into the porous clay ground. |
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The team will focus on fundamentals in an effort to improve its porous run defense. |
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Folded planes and porous, exterior materials like perforated metal are the norm these days. |
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Similarly, cortical bone is less prone to diagenetic contamination than porous, cancellous bone tissue. |
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In some instances the alteration is so intense that all that remains of the host is a porous siliceous cap rock. |
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If the bleed water gets finished back in, the hardened concrete surface may be weak, porous, and vulnerable to abrasion and salt scaling. |
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This includes opals, turquoise, malachite, pearls, amber, coral, shells, and similar soft or porous materials. |
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Tooth enamel is much less porous than bone and dentine, and it has greater inorganic content, density, and crystallinity. |
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But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things. |
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Four veteran starters were signed as free agents to shore up the middle of the league's most porous defense. |
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Watered-down paint soaks into the porous concrete so it won't flake or peel like surface paint does. |
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Another is a rounded piece of clinker, a porous material that results from the burning of coal seams. |
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Walls consist of a porous network of cellulose fibrils, hemicellulose, pectins, and glycoproteins. |
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When pelletized and activated under specific conditions, poultry litter becomes a highly porous material with a large surface area. |
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If paint fails because of penetration of rain and dew through porous paint, clean and prepare the paint surface. |
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The cell wall, which is relatively porous, consists of many polymer layers of peptidoglycan connected by amino acid bridges. |
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For another example, consider the process of percolation, where a fluid trickles through the mazelike passages of a porous medium. |
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The garment repels water but is sufficiently porous to prevent moisture buildup from perspiration. |
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The carbon dioxide is extracted at the source and is injected into porous rocks deep underground to prevent it escaping into the atmosphere. |
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A porous paper may absorb a lot of the ink and as a result, the colors may be lighter. |
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Slate is a dense, porous, fine-grained rock that has a natural, generally gray-green color. |
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They build up on sheltered exposures of fine-grained, porous pyrite-bearing rocks, such as shale or bituminous coal, after long dry spells. |
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It is by nature a very porous material and often cannot be completely restored. |
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An aquifer is an underground bed of earth, gravel or porous stone that stores water. |
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The result is the formation of solid structures of a porous calcium carbonate rock also known as travertine. |
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Moreover, they can also be seen as potential shape-selective catalysts by analogy with the porous minerals, zeolites. |
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Since drywall is a porous material, it can absorb melted paraffin when immersed in it. |
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We do very much the same sort of thing in reverse when we try to get oil out of porous rocks like sandstone and so on. |
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The ion exchanger is porous and allows for a solution to permeate through the material. |
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Braising in wine or a highly-seasoned stock allows porous mushrooms to absorb other flavors. |
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Coating a porous material like foam with this polymer makes it hydrophobic, so it won't absorb water. |
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Most of the outer islands of the southern Tongass are made of limestone, a relatively soft, porous rock. |
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The active oxygen and water vapour permeate through the porous rubber structure of the tyre over time, gradually reducing pressure. |
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A magnetic stir bar was placed in each chamber, separated from the root material by a porous metal screen. |
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He could not seem to hurt him, his defence was shockingly porous, and during most exchanges Sturm was a split-second ahead. |
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What that would tell Woodward was all about the porous defences rather than exhilarating attacks. |
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They won all the battles and and stiffened the defence which had been porous like in the first period. |
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Is there tension between one of the league's perennially elite offenses and one of its most porous defenses? |
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They'll be under, with a pretty porous defense and little help along the defensive line. |
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The Australians had clearly targeted him and he lost the ball frequently in the tackle and was porous in defence. |
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He chased down his own grubber to be the next man to take advantage of the porous Lancashire defence. |
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Coming up next, how the man charged with this country's safety plans to secure our porous southern border. |
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Their players are second to every ball, passes are going astray and their normally impenetrable defence is looking porous. |
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The porous defense is beginning to come under attack by the pitching staff. |
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This really shook the home side, whose own defence also looked a little on the porous side. |
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His stock also has been hurt by being shuffled around a lot on a porous defense. |
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It's not recommended to roll paint on an acoustic ceiling, as it is very porous. |
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This vessel was incompletely oxidized during firing and has large amounts of grog and bone temper in its porous clay body. |
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The massive walls work well as heat sinks, but the beautiful timber walls, with all their complex joinery, are too porous to hold heat. |
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It should be porous for root aeration and drainage, but also able to retain water and nutrients. |
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The local iron ore gives the teapot a porous molecular structure thus allowing the aeration of the tea inside. |
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An aerogel is a porous network of silica strands with diameters of a few nanometres. |
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However people with strong bones can delay and slow the process of having porous bones. |
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Plus, they excrete sticky compounds that glue soil particles into aggregates, keeping the soil open and porous. |
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One easy thing homeowners can do is disconnect their downspouts, redirecting rainwater from roofs out onto porous ground. |
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Also, hair that is relaxed, straightened, or permanently dyed is more porous than natural hair. |
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The metals are dispersed as tiny particles on a supporting framework of porous aluminium oxide. |
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These aluminosilicates form porous structures whose cavities can act as storage for ions and molecules. |
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However, the sapwood of these Actinidia species, as with other lianas, is highly porous with large diameter vessels. |
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Vertical-slotted pipes made of plastic are installed and surrounded by porous rock, which acts as a moisture barrier. |
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Because of its porous nature, large molecules are able to diffuse into the canal and, although it is a vein, it carries aqueous humor, not blood. |
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Injuries and a porous defense that has the team playing catch-up have led to disappointment. |
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The emerging site includes porous parking areas that absorb water rather than run it off into storm drains. |
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The quick pace also has helped keep the porous defense more alert and involved. |
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Part of the dismal run is the team's porous defence which has conceded an incredible 52 goals in 29 matches. |
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Dirt, weeds and sawdust adhere to the paint, forming porous cavities and rough, spongelike surfaces. |
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Select a material for the porous dam that can be easily cleaned by scraping the surface. |
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Not in the group stages of these two tournaments, however, did their defence appear so porous and their attack so unremarkable. |
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It is porous, takes up water and because it is soluble, it leads to ongoing selective loss of the copper from the alloy. |
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Once again, much of the focus is on securing porous borders, namely, the Mediterranean coastline. |
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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. |
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Liquid helium will boil off constantly through a special porous plug in the dewar to maintain the science probe at its required temperature for up to 18 months. |
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Afterward the work fluid is transported back to the first chamber through the second pipe using the porous structures thereof, thus forming a circulative cooling apparatus. |
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Injuries and a porous defense were the main culprits in the collapse. |
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The finely porous membranes are designed to allow the flow of water between adjacent vessels while preventing the passage of gas bubbles and pathogens. |
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You are correct to be concerned about the grout between the tiles, as grout is a porous material that is not easily cleaned and could harbor bacteria. |
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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. |
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Flint looks glassy and impervious, but in fact is quite porous. |
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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. |
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The Brazilian defense, touted as impenetrable in pre-tournament hype, proved to be bedraggled, and porous. |
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Instead of being an impenetrable wall on the frontier, the pak Army has become a porous bale of cotton. |
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This may occur, for instance, when a new component is used with a variety of different devices, such as a new porous coating for a range of implantable orthopedic devices. |
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Use damp-proof courses to drain off rainwater and surround the building with a porous surface such as gravel or cobblestones so that water can be re-absorbed into the ground. |
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Because hair is porous, it absorbs moisture, which activates curl. |
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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. |
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That porous layer, which contains stabilized zirconia and small amounts of the metals ruthenium and cerium, chemically and cleanly converts the fuel to hydrogen. |
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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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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. |
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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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The visa revocation process remains partially blind and needlessly porous to incursions by individuals who might pose a grave risk to our security. |
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Haines has also applied porous ceramic technology to putting greens. |
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Because American oak is so much less porous than European, staves of American oak can simply be sawn from each quarter, so as to maximize the yield of each log. |
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It is porous and requires sealing with 100 percent tung oil. |
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They should not be used to vacuum porous materials, such as gypsum board. |
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Our porous borders are seen as a midterm election play-to-the-base appeal instead of a problem to be solved. |
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Mudstones are the main source of oil and gas, although by the time the oil or gas is extracted it has usually migrated to porous rocks such as sandstones of limestones. |
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Among the biggest problems is the porous border Afghanistan shares with Pakistan. |
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Indeed, dark epoxy grouts can permanently stain the porous varieties. |
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Their house, which has never been painted, is sagging and rotted and porous. |
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You may even want to go over it with a primer if the material is porous. |
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If the tape was not porous, the sterilant would be unable to permeate. |
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Deformation bands have been referred to by various terminologies in reports of field observations and laboratory experiments of brittly deformed porous rock. |
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Most masonry materials are porous and will absorb large amounts of water. |
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In the FET setup, the feeding zone of an extruder is equipped with a porous, gas-permeable wall section, on which a vacuum is pulled externally. |
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Importantly, an isoreticular series of porous materials containing the basic zinc acetate SBU and dicarboxylate ligands exists. |
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Tufa, a porous or cellular variety of travertine, is found near waterfalls. |
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Petroleum is found in porous rock formations in the upper strata of some areas of the Earth's crust. |
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One of his additional suggestions was to stop using porous natural materials in manufacturing the handles of medical instruments. |
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Near Junction 35 of the M4, there is a stretch of the motorway that has a surfacing of porous asphalt that improves drainage and reduces noise. |
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One important use of glaze is to render porous pottery vessels impermeable to water and other liquids. |
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Because the biscuit form of earthenware is porous, it has limited utility for storage of liquids. |
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Cuttlefish possess an internal structure called the cuttlebone, which is porous and is made of aragonite. |
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They may be watertight, covering the slope completely, or porous, to allow water to filter through after the wave energy has been dissipated. |
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Another way to store natural gas is adsorbing it to the porous solids called sorbents. |
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Where there are porous limestone terraced islands these are generally poor in nutrients. |
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Chalk deposits are very porous, so the height of the water table in chalk hills rises in winter and falls in summer. |
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Cancellous bone also known as trabecular or spongy bone tissue is the internal tissue of the skeletal bone and is an open cell porous network. |
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Bone char, a porous, black, granular material primarily used for filtration and also as a black pigment, is produced by charring mammal bones. |
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The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform. |
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Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. |
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The downward moving column of ore, flux, coke or charcoal and reaction products must be porous enough for the flue gas to pass through. |
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Coke was more porous and able to support the heavier loads in the vastly larger furnaces of the late 19th century. |
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Sintered plastic porous components are used in filtration and to control fluid and gas flows. |
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The porous texture allows wax to be retained within the structure of the base material, thus providing a more durable wax coating. |
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For a porous catalytic surface, the pores may collapse due to sintering, resulting in loss of surface area. |
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Still, many Africans see it as a Shangri-la, and the borders are porous. |
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The porous nature of the wall significantly reduces wind force but takes greater skill to construct. |
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Raw concrete surfaces tend to be porous, and have a relatively uninteresting appearance. |
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Materials which are porous and moisture retentive, such as brick, wood, and certain coarse concrete mixtures are hospitable to moss. |
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When the silo is filled or the stack built, a layer of straw or some other dry porous substance may be spread over the surface. |
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A transfer-matrix approach for estimating the characteristic impedance and wave numbers of limp and rigid porous materials. |
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Still, many of the porous bones were slicked in pungent whale oil that continued to leak out. |
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The advection-diffusion equation is a form of the energy equation for a saturated porous matrix. |
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Zeolites are solid, porous catalysts that have wide ranging industrial applications for gas adsorption, separation and catalysis. |
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Zeolites are porous minerals composed of silicon, aluminum and oxygen atoms with narrow channels, like the lift shafts in a block of flats. |
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The Job's comforters among us always warn that languages will inevitably be harder to learn as you get older because your brain gets less porous. |
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On the veg plot, or to keep recently planted borders moist, install a seep or porous hose, which can be fixed to a rain barrel. |
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In fact society was more porous and there is evidence of the arriviste presumption of young artists in the period. |
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Other families include porous concretes and asphalts being developed by engineers and landscape architects. |
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A 1-cm transverse block, including the porous coating-thread stem junction was cut sagittally into 2-mm sections. |
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Finally, the porous array PE template was obtained after dissolving PS easily in methylbenzene solution. |
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We questioned the maxim that porous structures can be adequately considered as a bundle of capillaries. |
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Substrates are classified as either porous or nonporous, where adhesion to nonporous substrates is generally more difficult than to porous ones. |
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Mechanical interlock, as observed by scanning electron microscopy, formed between nonpolar plastic film and porous poplar veneer. |
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It can be noted that SEM images exhibited undulant, rough and porous structure, which causes an increased surface area of the hydrogel. |
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Hydraulic conductivity of saprolite as determined by channels and porous groundmass. |
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Use of porous high-density polyethylene in revision rhinoplasty and in the platyrrhine nose. |
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The hexahedral finite volume elements are generated in the porous media zone to simulate the tube bundle flow resistance. |
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Hydrogels are used for tissue growth by providing a porous structure for cellular growth. |
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Experimental applications of porous hydroxylapatite in middle ear and mastoid reconstruction. |
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So, fermions can have more porous and voluminous packing of boson threads, forming hyperons, etc. |
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The mass of liquid transported through a porous diaphragm in a given time is directly proportional to the current. |
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A UNFORTUNATELY sandblasted glass becomes porous and therefore prone to fingermarks. |
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This modified surface has a highly porous structure, which helps to trap and focalize chemical and biological aqueous reagents for analysis. |
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Cold temperatures and blown snow had penetrated the porous lava, forming regular, roughly hexagonal cracks almost like frost heaves on asphalt. |
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Wood cell development occurs initially with the creation of a porous cellulose-hemicellulose structure followed by an intergrowth of lignin within this structure. |
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Over the years, the packing material in GPC columns has shifted to the use of other kinds of porous materials with carefully regulated pore sizes. |
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When the foundry first began its ductile iron production, each ladle of base gray iron was desulfurized using a porous plug ladle and calcium carbide. |
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The process starts by tailor-making a porous spherule of PP in a reaction process similar to Himont's Catalloy technology, then grafting various monomers. |
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The porous nature of the mesenchyme permits accumulation of fluid. |
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They are self-similar porous clusters in which the nanoparticles, smaller porous clusters, and larger aggregates of clusters all have the same rough geometry. |
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Aromatic rings are Lewis base sites and their presence in porous solids improves the gas storage capacity through either acid-base interactions or induced dipole. |
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Southern Yellow Pine resists the aging process better than most wood and has a slightly porous surface that eagerly accepts any color of stain you want to apply. |
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If the walls are porous, protect them with a clear waterproofer. |
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Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield. |
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They are porous and highly permeable to rainfall, and allow rainwater to slow percolate into the soil below, instead of flowing over the surface as runoff. |
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However, the soft and porous properties of lime mortar provide certain advantages when working with softer building materials such as natural stone and terracotta. |
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In geology a natural sintering occurs when a mineral spring brings about a deposition of chemical sediment or crust, for example as of porous silica. |
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In specimens that show a very large proportion of latewood it may be noticeably more porous and weigh considerably less than the latewood in pieces that contain less latewood. |
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Underdeveloped institutions, porous open borders, and the existence of established smuggling organisations contribute to Ghana's position in the narcotics industry. |
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Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food. |
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The porous properties of glauconite greensand allow for the absorption of water and minerals, making irrigation and nutrient delivery much more efficient. |
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In the valleys below the downs there is typically a clay soil, and at the interface between the two a springline can occur where water emerges from the porous chalk. |
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Chalk is a porous rock, so the chalk hills have little surface water. |
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Members of the Rubus genus tend to have a brittle, porous core and an oily residue along the stalk which makes them ideal to burn, even in damp climates. |
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Nevertheless, the border here became more and more porous since the decimated defending troops could no longer drive off the Irish settlers in the coastal regions. |
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SnO2 porous nanosolid was prepared by a solvothermal hot-press method, and a new strategy was developed to improve its interfacial crystallinity and carrier mobility. |
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The Holocene sediments are porous and completely saturated with sea water. |
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The frontiers were particularly porous for the physical movement of migrants, and people living in borderlands easily maintained transnational cultural and social networks. |
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