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Sentence Examples Some people make sport of wading the Waddenzee at low tide wearing big rubber boots. In winter we wore leggings under our dresses and we covered our feet in rubber boots. Other uses of aniline include the manufacture of rubber processing chemicals and the production of agrochemicals and dyestuffs. The composite profile from the extrusion has an area of leather-hard rubber and an area of soft rubber. The bone-shaking ride had to be softened, but despite leaf springs, and then later, a band of solid rubber around the rim, more had to be done. Wax and silicone rubber molds used with polyester resins have revolutionized the restoration of ancient glass. Just a small portion of this resilient rubber gray matter is all one needs to erase away the problems. In his corner, Michael has a double thickness of dirty foam rubber, two sleeping bags with broken zippers. These laticiferous tubules are the source of the milky latex that is used to make natural chewing gums and rubber. Police resorted to heavy lathi charge and fired rubber bullets to disperse the clashing groups. I take the bulk away with a wood lathe tool, take it down and smooth it out with clay tools, and buff it with a rubber pad. Natural latex is a milky fluid produced by the rubber tree and is used for manufacturing scores of every day items. Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to adalimumab, rubber or latex. Often, parents or caregivers are not aware of the risk of sensitivity to natural rubber latex. Latex commonly is referred to as natural rubber latex or by the simplified term rubber. Figs are members of the rubber tree family and secrete white, sticky latex that can irritate the skin. They depend on it for their livelihood as they collect rubber latex from the Hevea brazilensis trees. I had several teeth out this way and can still remember vividly the smell and the rubber mask. To smell burning rubber while driving a car is a sign that you forgot to release the hand brake. No longer will they have to wear rubber gloves to rummage through a bin liner, now it will be clean and dry and boxed up for them. Show More Sentences The all-weather surface comprises artificial turf laid onto a rubber composite material, giving a realistic feel. The jolting problem was alleviated by using larger wheels and solid rubber tyres. I wore a soft yellow skirt, a black lacy shirt, and a pair of light green rubber galoshes with daisies on them. Instead, we decided to hang up the heavier long underwear like regular clothing and simply bundle our lighter underwear with a rubber band. The wringer with its flexible rubber rollers is electrically driven and swings effortlessly into 8 different positions. You can insulate your pipes with foam rubber sleeves or fiberglass insulation, wrapping the insulating material around the pipes. Please remember your box and its lid should be wrapped separately in Christmas paper and fastened with a rubber band but not sealed. His trousers were already wet to the thigh and he was wearing knee-high rubber boots. Because tubeless tires need to form an airtight seal, manufacturers must coat the inner walls of the tire with additional rubber. All this to say, that if you know how to roll a good cigar, the government treats you with kid gloves and rubber bullets. On this rare day, a windsurfer with black rubber body and transparent sail swings around like an insect. Inlet and outlet air lines were sealed into smaller holes in the lid, using rubber sleeves. Examples of abuse include punches, kicks, blows and partial suffocation by placing a rubber gas mask over the person's face. For nearly 70 years the undisputed champion of performance golf balls featured rubber windings wrapped around a liquid-filled core. The wife is quite short, and runs excitedly around the shop trying to sell you a rubber rat, a whoopee cushion, or spicy hot chewing gum. This action will create an impression of the top teeth in the rubber material. Crafted of fine leather, they feature slick rawhide laces, a suede pull-tag heel and a thick rubber sole for extra comfort. Methods of delivery include drug-filled rubber bullets, aerosol sprays and dosing a people's food or water supplies. Right now she's attempting to make a kaleidoscope from an empty toilet paper tube, beads, rubber bands, some wax paper and Saran wrap. Hard compound rubber combats wear but reduces grip, which in turn generates wheelspin and therefore more wear. Show More Sentences The prices of jute, potato, soyabean, cashew nut, pepper, rubber, green tea leaves, coconut, groundnut and coffee have fallen sharply. It is a mesh pattern which should allow for some breathability, and I've been assured that resoling the rand doesn't affect the rubber. The crew had been cast adrift in a rubber boat Oct.29 and were not rescued until 11 days later. This year, the high school juniors and seniors donned backpacks and rubber boots to help in a turtle conservation project. During that time, Nebulon continued to whack the small, pink rubber ball against the wooden paddle. Its skin was like spongy neoprene rubber, the stuff wetsuits are made from, and its eyes were just so peedie for such a big animal. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and blue rubber slippers, he started running. The humble rubber rain boot has arrived with a big splash at London Fashion Week. The tapes are available with solid adhesives or solvent acrylic and rubber adhesives. He also has a piece of adhesive gum with drawing pins sunk in it which, when combined with a thick rubber band, makes a horrifying catapult. The people had been inside or were clinging to the side of a rubber raft for between six and eight hours before they were rescued. He and pilot Russell Phillips managed to survive 47 days on a rubber raft with no provisions amidst menacing swarms of sharks. A dozen tourists wander through the colony, having arrived by Zodiac rubber raft from their cruise ship. I remembered picking up a rubber johnny as it drifted past me and holding it up to the other volunteers, who all recoiled in horror. You can tell it's posh because food is served on a bed of other food, and there isn't a machine in the gents selling rubber johnnies. He was naked except for a pair of mustard-coloured jockettes and rubber flip-flops. The power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering gear is rubber isolated at all three of its mounting points. Self-adhesive foam rubber weatherstripping is easy to install, widely available, and quite inexpensive. The television screen cracked and blew out, smoke and the acrid smell of burning rubber spilling from it. The Japanese also had their eye on the rubber plantations, mineral wealth and oil reserves of the Dutch East Indies. Show More Sentences The roar of a sharp, white speedboat woke him as it skipped across the waves, out past the children bobbing in inflatable rubber rings. On the front of the mower is a rolling barrel with foot-long wiggly rubber fingers. Multi-layer microfibres, resin and rubber coated cotton are available in a line of water-repellent jackets. Silicone rubber is the ideal sealant for kitchens and bathrooms, as it is non-toxic and water-repellent. We waterproofed the structure with a layer of recycled floor-matting rubber that is invisible from inside and out. Sources said police used hundreds of tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and opened fire to quell the strikers, leaving seven people dead. Bags I the dummy, Bags I the cot, Bags I the rubber duck the other baby's got. A rubber gasket and galvanized washer and nut hold the pipe in place and seal the hole. NoNo is the funny little red robot with rubber sucker feet, given from Ulysses to Telemicus, as a birthday present. Contact dermatitis is one example, in which the skin responds to allergens such as nickel and rubber accelerators. Coconut palms, jackfruit, mango, orange, lime, and rubber trees, as well as coffee bushes, were cultivated. The hydraulic power-steering pump is driven by the engine via a rubber belt that over time will wear out and become shiny. Other security items in high demand are bullet-proof vests, 9mm handguns that use rubber bullets and walk-through metal detectors. Paying no mind to his father, Chris stuck a frozen waffle into the toaster and pulled the rubber band off of the morning newspaper. Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory. Amidst much screeching of breaks and the acrid smell of burning rubber, Cameron executed a high speed u-turn. The low crunch of packed dirt against rubber tire was overwhelmed by the ragged explosions of automatic gunfire. The barbarians come, not wielding a rubber chicken, but on bended knee with a proffered rose. When the sections compress the rubber, this should form a watertight seal. He was egotistical even as a child, it is noted, infatuated with the sight of his name on a rubber stamp and later as a byline. Show More Sentences She seemed to defy gravity throughout the dance, standing on the tips of the rubber and carbon fiber feet. Suddenly amid wails of screaming engines, plumes of smoke and burning rubber, riders and bikes raced down the straight and through the first corner. Aniline is used in the manufacture of a number of products including dyes, pharmaceuticals, antioxidants, and vulcanization accelerators in rubber compounds. Symptoms, also caused by rubber accelerators and chemical additives, include redness, itching, crusting, and blisters, resembling the reaction to poison ivy or poison oak. With a rubber spatula, stir in the chocolate and cranberries until the dough is well mixed. After the demonstrators threw rocks and paint bombs, police responded with overwhelming force, firing rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas before launching baton charges. Police retaliated with teargas, water cannon and rubber bullets. The experimental tank was constructed from glass of 1 cm thickness held together with silicone rubber and divided into two equal proportions by a watertight partition. It uses rubber rings and to make up for their lack of shape, one side is coloured black, the other white and any quoit which falls black side up, doesn't score. Try water colours, acrylic paints, pastels and coloured paper, coloured modelling clay, ordinary air-drying clay, origami paper, rubber printing stamps and gel pens. These include breadfruit, banana, and rubber trees, whose canopies shade the cocoa trees. The legislature has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for the President. The comet is basically shaped like a rubber ducky, but with a much rougher surface. They were taking down our coordinates every 15 minutes in case we got washed under and had to take the rubber raft and jump into our survival suits. Early models had steel rail wheel sets along with the rubber tires. They are feeding it on to the conveyor belt, a moving rubber belt a couple of feet wide which runs a yard or two behind them. New Zealand motorists have to beware a native parrot, the kea, which is just as keen on pecking off rubber windscreen wipers and window surrounds. For example, the handlebar end plugs are unsightly rounded black rubber knobs, rather than the attractive chrome-look plastic buttons that some companies supply. Representatives of the tax authorities said they have come across incidents when the excise labels had been attached to the bottles with adhesive tape or rubber bands. One young woman was stretchered from the beach on a makeshift platform of planks and a rubber mat after tumbling from the rocks as she tried to escape a tear gas pellet. Show More Sentences But his animals could be called back to life by visitors, who could reinflate them by blowing through rubber hoses connected to the flaccid structures. The expedition crossed the shelf of rock, testing the non-slip soles of their rubber boots to the limit, and set off along slightly yielding sand. My mother did rubber latex tapping for a meagre wage to feed us. He was researching into the production of artificial rubber and fuel. He cited examples of two key raw materials namely phenol and aniline, which are required to manufacture leather chemicals, pigments, dyestuff and rubber chemicals. Other famous New World crops include the cashew, cocoa, rubber, sunflower, tobacco, and vanilla, and fruits like the guava, papaya and pineapple. Prompt them to pick up ten sticks, rubber band them together, and quickly move them to the tens office. I looked back to see what was going on, and observed a rubber jungle of oxygen masks hanging from the overhead bins. The Red Sox, having lost the opener and won the second game, lost the rubber match against the Twins. How is it that the Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho and Adam Lanza weren't in a rubber room instead of in a classroom shooting people? The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings. If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs. Agriculture mainly produces rice, palm oil, tea, coffee, cacao, medicinal plants, spices and rubber. Routine entries in service books, records may be made with the help of Hindi or bilingual rubber stamps. Part of runway maintenance is airfield rubber removal which helps maintain friction levels. To further keep costs in check, the BTCC uses a single tyre supplier, with Dunlop the current supplier of rubber to all the teams. Police and protesters clashed in Lithuania where people protesting the economic conditions were shot with rubber bullets. Germany imported most of its essential materials for rebuilding the Luftwaffe, in particular rubber and aluminium. Elijah Galloway patented Kamptulicon in 1843, a rubber and cork based floor covering that was a precursor to linoleum. Conserving rubber throughout a race is a specific skill winning riders acquire. Show More Sentences After the match, Froch hinted at a rematch against Andre Ward in the UK, or a possible rubber match against Kessler. Depending on its specific rubber composition, a squash ball has the property that it bounces more at higher temperatures. They are made with two pieces of rubber compound, glued together to form a hollow sphere and buffed to a matte finish. Modern tennis balls are made of hollow vulcanized rubber with a felt coating. In January 1924, his brother left England to work in India as a rubber planter. This sealing property is useful for items such as gaskets and seals, rubber keypads, medical catheters and pharmaceutical packaging. One of the sets of keys has a distinctive Superman rubber key ring which officers believe someone may recognise. Work included the fitting of modern safety features such as halogen headlights and a rubber bumper and fiberglass skirt on each end. A key feature of the cat's eye is the flexible rubber dome which is occasionally deformed by the passage of traffic. To 'wind up' the 'engine', the propeller is repeatedly turned, twisting the rubber band. In animal husbandry, rubber bands are used for docking and the male castration of livestock. In other words, the ability to convert thermal energy into work while the rubber relaxes is allowed by the higher entropy of the relaxed state. ReMould builds on past work undertaken to develop a continuous devulcanization system for the production of devulcanized rubber from waste tires. The inflatable india rubber bladder and inflator were later invented by another Rugbeian, Richard Lindop. Lowinox 22M46 and 44B25 are bisphenols widely used in synthetic rubber and latices. Generally, rubber bands are numbered from smallest to largest, width first. Natural rubber originates from the latex of the rubber tree, which is acquired by tapping into the bark layers of the rubber tree. This causes the tube to split into multiple sections, creating a rubber band. Most rubber bands are manufactured out of natural rubber, and are sold in a variety of sizes. At the end of the conference, they awarded him with a rubber chicken as a booby prize for complaining the loudest. Show More Sentences The rubber band was patented in England on March 17, 1845, by Stephen Perry. Dunlop extended its brand from tires to other rubber products such as shoes, golf balls, tennis racquets, and adhesives. The Paradise Plums had dwindled substantially. So had the Mintips, a mint sweet with the elasticity and lastingness of rubber. Antiozonants are used as additives to plastics and rubber, especially in tyre manufacturing. Suma showed us how Grandfather's Beard lichen, which hangs from the trees everywhere the eye can see at Mount Pisgah, feels elastic, like rubber. Currently, rocket motors are insulated with an EPDM rubber filled with aramid fibers or silica. Currently Indonesia is the world's second largest producer of natural rubber, a crop that was introduced by the Dutch in the early 20th century. Crops such like coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco and rubber were all introduced by the Dutch. A rubber consists of the best of three games, unless one side wins the first two games. Watertight containers, or 'letterboxes', are hidden throughout the moor, each containing a visitor's book and a rubber stamp. Nothing beats outside basketball with a gripless rubber ball, a chain net, and a bent rim. Milk is extracted from the cow's udder by flexible rubber sheaths known as liners or inflations that are surrounded by a rigid air chamber. When the vacuum is reapplied in the chamber the flexible rubber inflation relaxes and opens up, preparing for the next squeezing cycle. Tooling materials include invar, steel, aluminium, reinforced silicone rubber, nickel, and carbon fibre. The industrial sector, which was dominated by steel until the 1960s, has since diversified to include chemicals, rubber, and other products. For the first time since the 1920s, it refused to rubber stamp proposals from the party and Council of Ministers. Crowded in amongst his pocket's pens was the rubber head of a diagnostic plexor. It was equipped with two water tanks, a pump and one inch rubber hose, plus the normal shovels, polaskis, first aid equipment, and radios. Major exports include rice, textiles and footwear, fishery products, rubber, jewellery, cars, computers, and electrical appliances. Foreign companies settled in Iquitos, from whence they controlled the extraction of rubber. Show More Sentences During the rubber boom it is estimated that diseases brought by immigrants, such as typhus and malaria, killed 40,000 native Amazonians. It also lost the state of Acre, in the Acre War, important because this region was known for its production of rubber. Indians in Malacca are the Tamil people in which many of them used to work at the rubber plantation. From the tropical forests of the inland regions come dyewoods, hardwoods, and rubber. Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. The personal monarchy of Belgian King Leopold II in the Congo Free State saw mass killings and slavery to extract rubber. Indigenous peoples were enslaved as part of the rubber boom in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. Major industrial customers include rubber and plastic products, textiles, apparel, petroleum refining, pulp and paper, and primary metals. In Europe the chemical, plastics and rubber sectors are among the largest industrial sectors. It is also used in brewing beer, pharmaceutical preparations, and as a catalyst for synthetic rubber manufacturing. As additives to rubber, aniline derivatives such as phenylenediamines and diphenylamine, are antioxidants. A rubber plug is then inserted into the ferrule for a functioning eraser on the end of the pencil. Check roadwheels and idler wheels for excessive heat, worn mounting holes, and separation of rubber from metal. Ladies matches shall consist of 6 rubbers. Each rubber shall consist of best of 3 games to 21 points. They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running. The same package that contained the bowl caps will contain a large rubber spud washer and tank bolts and washers. With the tank upside down, pull or twist off the rubber spud washer and use a spud wrench to unscrew the large locking net from the flush valve. The temperature dependence of the elastocaloric effect in natural rubber is studied adiabatically and isothermally. Then he talced his hands, slipped on a new pair of rubber gloves, went to the shapeless thing at the other end of the table, and began to work. Fiber dyes are easily absorbed by skin, so always wear rubber gloves while tie-dying. Show More Sentences Attach the rubber tubing to the drainpipe of the ice chamber and place the end in a pail. I wear a watch with a rubber watchband so I can wipe it down each time I hunt. A variety of watchbands are also available including black stainless steel, black leather and black rubber tread. Other luxuries include a heated king-sized waterbed and rubber flooring which is gentle on the animals' joints. We made our 'dingers' out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance. Tenders are invited for Supply of set of acrylic nitrile rubber, one set consists of 58 nos. The pods feature natural rubber flooring and white beech veneered internal walls. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the egg white mixture into the butter. He said that the entire windshield will have to come off to replace that little piece of rubber. The three classes of major phosphate ester plasticizers of importance in the rubber industry include triaryl, alkyl diaryl and trialkyl. These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans. Coleman either gave the dealerships a rubber check or said he would pay for the vehicles but never did, the lawsuit said. The time it takes for a chemical sealant to become a rubber is known as the curing time and varies by temperature and humidity. Using a recently invented rubber suit and metal diving helmet, Deane and Edwards began to examine the wreck and salvage items from it. There were yellowed pages of base layouts and plans, a duty roster, and a rubber banded package of papers. When the campaign commenced Labor wrote a rubber cheque for the Henbury facility. Joe discovers the Windasses gave him a rubber cheque that bounces, then they steal all his tools. Statutory law originates in Japan's legislature and has the rubber stamp of the Emperor. It then listed precisely how much you are going to be charged for each rubber cheque and for over-drawing your credit limit. An inflatable rubber hose around the turret ring created a waterproof seal between the hull and turret. Show More Sentences Wildlife officials have unsuccessfully attempted to ward off the sea lions using bombs, rubber bullets and bean bags. A limited edition appeared in a comedy rubber sleeve, shaped like a nipple. The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline. The nut heads can be glued with rubber cement onto small stuffed raffia or other bodies reinforced with pipe cleaners. She also knows how to cram a book full of enticing color photos of more art projects based on rubber stamp designs than could easily be imagined. Zinc oxide is widely used as a white pigment in paints and as a catalyst in the manufacture of rubber to disburse heat. We've developed a method to make a rubber stamp, ink it with a chemical, and then stamp a pattern onto a thin film of gold. Many Congolese were killed by Leopold's agents for failing to meet production quotas for ivory and rubber. Originally intended to be a rubber plantation, it failed within several years and is now home to squatting farmers. Check piston rod for scoring by skinning back protective rubber boot. Cable enters the latter through a slit in the concrete biological shield which is sealed by 6 in. of lead bricks, aluminium doors and rubber snuggers. The tape is supplied from a feeder-roll and is brought up to and curved around the cable by guide plates and rubber snuggers to form a wrapping lengthwise on the sheath. For entrepreneurs and established businessmen who have been questioning how far rubber stamps can go, Presto Wonders offers an unmistakably posh and polished answer. For the safety of the stuntmen, many props were made of foam rubber. Visitors take an impression of the letterbox's rubber stamp as proof of finding the box and record their visit by stamping their own personal stamp in the letterbox's logbook. The soft rubber allows them to expand when they are heated up, making more surface area on the pavement, therefore producing the most amount of traction. Later, in the 1890s, when the rubber industry also became established in Malaya and Singapore, the island became a global centre for rubber sorting and export. She twisted the rubber band extra tight. Sure enough, the tractor spun off much faster. Whee! She really liked to see it go fast on the living room floor. It was really no easy matter to build up two or three plies of double warp Wigan with a thin covering of rubber to the accurate gauge that the printer required. In rubber and tire applications where spot size is important, the sensor should be mounted with the laser beam as close to perpendicular to the surface as possible. Show More Sentences In 1921 Played a pivotal role in ending the activities of the Peruvian Amazon Company, which was using indigenous slave labour in rubber production. The Jennifer Rainboot boot from Kamik is simple and stylish, comes in a multitude of colors and is made with recyclable, PVC-free synthetic rubber. At least 18 protesters were also injured after police fired rubber pellets and resorted to lathicharge at Rangajan in Golaghat district on Tuesday. Applications range from toys, swimming floats, rubber boots, and film for waterbeds to sealants and casting compounds for the construction sector. On 1 September 1932, business leaders from Peruvian rubber and sugar industries who had lost land as a result organised an armed takeover of Leticia. Most of their efforts were centered around crippling Malaysia's economy and involved sabotage against trains, rubber trees, water pipes, and electric lines. Temperature affects the elasticity of a rubber band in an unusual way. Wig-Wag Stackers, used to handle rubber strips and slabs in the tire and rubber industry, are featured in a four-color, two-page product bulletin. In Group III and Group IV competitions, each tie consists only of three rubbers, which include two singles and one doubles rubber, which is played in a single day. Self-threading strip cooling units with wig-wag stacking and on-line or off-line slitting modules are VMI's answer to the growing need for rubber strip production. A materials engineer from General Motors, John Beckett, was interested in being able to use short term, high temperature agings to forecast rubber part life. In the Davis Cup, the word rubber means an individual match. Pyrolysis involves the thermal degradation of the rubber of the tyre to give an oil and gas leaving a residual solid carbon and the steel casing of the tyre. The ideal net work sought was one which contained only monosulfidic crosslings and lacked modification of the rubber chains by cyclic sulfide groups. The Belgian Congo was notoriously profitable when it was a capitalistic rubber plantation owned and operated by King Leopold II as a private enterprise. The company supplies a range of bespoke rubber stamps, pens and markers to the European market and has custom produced special items for the Arsenal shop. The camelback rubber produced in this plant is shipped around the world. Crocodiles can thus be subdued for study or transport by taping their jaws or holding their jaws shut with large rubber bands cut from automobile inner tubes. The rubber check sleeve opens with as little as one inch of working pressure and seals drop-tight with backpressure, creating a unidirectional shutoff mechanism. But city leaders, who keep giving Hahn's plan the necessary rubber stamps to move it forward, would have us believe that this frog will, eventually, somehow become a prince. Show More Sentences Regarding this fact, many marketers in Ceara, in their business dealings with Casa Boris, paid debts with cotton, carnauba wax, emu feathers, leather, rubber and jaborandi. The earliest helicopter engines were simple mechanical devices, such as rubber bands or spindles, which relegated the size of helicopters to toys and small models. Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. These include building materials, fibers, dyes, rubber and oil. While other rubber products may use synthetic rubber, most rubber bands are primarily manufactured using natural rubber because of its superior elasticity. These high-performance rubber products offer tire manufacturers even better options for producing energy-efficient tires with low rolling resistance. Charles Lawrence International, on the Northern Road Industrial Estate in Newark makes EPDM rubber granules and machinery for maintaining artificial sports surfaces. In order to avoid cakings the walls of the tubes are made out of rubber breadths which are stretched over corner steel in the breaks. These rubber breadths oscillate slightly. During these colonial times, the Dutch introduced the cultivation of commercial plants in Java, such as sugarcane, rubber, coffee, tea, and quinine. The family once saw a little girl getting a bath, sitting out in the sun on an inverted jar, while her mother poured basinfuls of water over her and rubber her with her hands. Indoor ranges can use angled plates with collectors, often with a rubber curtain through which the bullet passes and is then stopped by a metal plate. Soon he was overdrawn at the bank and signing rubber cheques. Someone threw a packet of rubber johnnies which grazed my nose. One of the first to use this method was pioneer aerodynamicist George Cayley, who used rubber band driven motors for powering his small experimental models. This manufacturer of gear reducers for use on rubber processing mixer units is said to be committed to excellence, according to this four-page, four-color brochure. To see how it might work, Heatherwick's studio devised a bespoke crumpling device, like a heavy Victorian mangle, its roller kinkily studded with rubber nodules. When the propeller has had enough turns, the propeller is released and the model launched, the rubber band then turning the propeller rapidly until it has unwound. Some of the most dramatic improvements came in industries hardest hit by the recession, such as paper and forest products, rubber, airlines, and the auto industry. Examples include polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, cis-polyisoprene, polydimethylsiloxane, polyethyleneoxide and styrene-butadiene rubber. Equipment makers are responding to tire recyclers' requests to help them produce clean grades of crumb rubber and marketable steel radial tire wire. Show More Sentences It was later found that the craft's hover height was improved by the addition of a skirt of flexible fabric or rubber around the hovering surface to contain the air. This type of rubber band was popularized by use in the military. This mission was done by the patrol and landing crafts of the Zaire Flotilla, occasionally supported by frigates, and by units of Marines using rubber boats. Stretching a rubber band will cause it to release heat, while releasing it after it has been stretched will make it absorb heat, causing its surroundings to become cooler. And when asked to provide a full accounting to justify the need for a hike, DWP officials gave few details, clearly expecting the usual rubber stamp from the City Council. I'm not a potted plant and I'm also not a rubber stamp,'' Corrales said. Germany had to import most of its iron, rubber, oil, bauxite, copper and nickel, making naval blockade a devastating weapon against the German economy. We never went into the Mixed, where young bucks paying sixpence tried to impress giggling girls in rubber hats as they demonstrated the Australian Crawl. Of French trade, 35 percent was with the British Empire and the majority of the tin, rubber, jute, wool and manganese used by France came from the British Empire. French riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse large groups of Everton fans gathered on Lille's main square, hours before a Europa League match. Heating causes the rubber band to contract and cooling causes expansion. Recreational rubber stamping has become quite popular with hobbyists, as computer technology has made the process of making rubber stamps very cost effective. Examples from Classical Literature They were overhauling and coiling down what looked like a long rubber hose. The only other defect of crepe rubber which has any bearing on its use in manufacture is mould. The thick rubber is then generally hung for a few days to air-dry before packing. This will completely absorb any of the cleanser which may have permeated the rubber, and thus minimise any injurious effect. This darkening of crepe rubber may be attributed to a slow process of oxidation, which continues until the rubber is dry. For this reason, crepe rubber with coloured spots may give rise to trouble in the factory. The motive power was supplied by twisted strands of rubber which, as they untwisted, turned the airscrew. Bakelite is a substitute for hard rubber or amber, invented by the eminent chemist Dr. Baekeland. Fill 10 litres of water into the aspirating bottle and attach a piece of rubber tubing with a screw clamp to the delivery tube. No means are known by which these coloured spots, due to the growth of chromogenic organisms, can be removed from the rubber. The algin extracted from the Pacific kelp can be used as a rubber surrogate for water-proofing cloth. The connector or attachment plug should be of rubber or solid plastic and have a metal cord grip fastened to it. Some light is thus shed upon a subject which has puzzled both shippers and receivers of crepe rubber. The block is prepared from crepe rubber, which has been dried either in a hot-air drier or in a vacuum chamber. A solution of india rubber in bisulphide of carbon is now generally employed instead of an ethereal solution. This second dial was no more than a thin disk of hard rubber or Bakelite, with a red scratch-mark on one side. The native rubber-tree of Brazil, botanically known as Hevea brasiliensis, yields the finest quality rubber. With the invention of vulcanized rubber, the breast pump was frequently attached to a large rubber bulb. The calender is also used to press rubber into sheets of uniform thickness. Distinct from rubber, but closely akin to it, are the two materials known as gutta-percha and balata. Show More Sentences Timber is cut, and balata and rubber collected, from crown lands by licences issued from the department of Lands and Mines. India rubber, or caoutchouc, is chemically a hydrocarbon, but its molecular constitution is unknown. He flew along the base path at a rattling clip and beat the ball to the rubber by an eyelash. Gutta percha and vulcanised india rubber are now applied to many of the purposes formerly exclusively occupied by catgut. For other purposes, steel, hard rubber, and celluloid have taken its place. Over it he pulled a rubber cap, like a bathing cap with a hole cut in the top. In the preparation of crepe rubber heavy machinery is necessary, and ample engine-power must be available. He frowned, got up from where he had been sunning himself on top of the dazzler's cabin, and kicked off his heavy rubber boots. Find more words! 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