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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.
A single slab is also a practical option because it's easier to clean than a surface broken up by porous grout lines.
This allows photocatalytic oxidation of organics using a porous titanium dioxide membrane.
The porous acetabulum may be secured with screws to allow cancellous bone ingrowth.
The forces have tried to seal the notoriously porous border using high-technology sensors that monitor movement by night.
Because of its very porous nature, charcoal has the particularly high ratio of surface area to weight required of an absorptive material.
By waterproofing the porous concrete, he eliminates the wet surface conditions that cause mildew.
Marble is much softer than granite and is highly porous, so it's easily etched by acids.
The chips are encoded by generating nanometer-thick layers of porous films on the wafers using a special electrochemical etch.
So the sanctions, belated and porous though they were, did have some limited effect.
The new porous material could show greater insulating abilities and are interesting as packaging material in microelectronics.
The tortuosity of the porous network is rationalized in terms of the ultrastructure known from electron microscopy.
But cement is exceptionally tough and not very porous and its use at Fountains has essentially reversed this process.
As well, the porous nature of the exudate allows for the wound to breathe, a desirable characteristic of a bioadhesive.
In his review article Professor Derby looks at experiments where porous structures have been made through bioprinting.
First, after electrophoresis of the proteins through a polyacrylamide gel, they are transferred by blotting to a porous membrane sheet.
The multilayer structures generated in porous silicon provide a simple means of optically encoding micrometer-sized particles.
Note that unglazed clay saucers are porous, so surfaces underneath can be damaged by the moisture the saucers absorb.
The captain's massive influence will be lost at a time when United's porous defence is allowing precious league points to leak away.
Capillary action of the porous material pulls the ammonia borane into the pores of the support.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is exceedingly light and porous in structure, and at one time was used largely as an antacid as well as a dentifrice.
It had the appearance of metal, but was as porous and pliable as a good grade of bond paper.
Light porous soils may be rolled at any time, but clay soils can be rolled to advantage only when they are stiff and cloddy.
Hard refractory clays often remain porous and are a fruitful source of crazing and breaking.
These changes are described as a cribriform or porous condition of the white nervous matter, said to be visible to the naked eye.
The soft layers are porous, and permit the diffusion of the acid from plate to plate.
The drying-out may result in considerable shrinkage, which may make the wood fibre more porous.
The same field, well drained, is friable and porous, and uniform in texture.
It is porous, but the pores are small, except one or two rows in the springwood.
Nitroglycerine, when absorbed in a porous earth called 'kieselguhr', is called dynamite.
It sprayed them through the porous shelter of the vines and latticework so that they could not sit on the bench.
But the house stood isolated, and outside the laurelled forests and porous cliffs soaked up the dissonance as a blotter soaks ink.
Here, as in the experiment of the hydrogen and air passing through the porous cup, the lighter fluid moves faster.
Hanging from one of the sticks that supported the tent was a porous jar of water.
For instance, the great art of mud pie taught us the porous nature of clay, the expansive power of steam, etc. etc.
The largest of these streams is that from the Niedermendig, which consists of porous masses of nepheline lava.
A porous separator allows more energy to be drawn from the battery than a nonporous one.
The zinc rod is kept in a solution of zinc sulphate contained in the porous cup.
It can be so woven as to be almost as porous as wool, and to retain that porousness even when saturated with perspiration.
It exhibits constantly on the basal pole the porochora or porous area, and in the basal half the podoconus or pseudopodial cone.
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