Erosion, caused by acidic substances, is a wearing away of the enamel coating of teeth.
And on the sails, a coating of solar panels would trap energy from the sun.
If a rock has a coating of dust, hundreds of repeated pulses from the laser can remove those layers.
The report detailed Hamas' coating of shrapnel with poison and pesticides as an example of terrorist groups using such unconventional weapons.
When it melts, tilt the pan so that the sides have a thin coating of melted butter (or do this with a pastry brush).
The Media Edition weighs in at under one pound, but packs in the same 1.2GHz processor and Gorilla glass coating of its bigger sister.
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The locally sourced potatoes are twice fried in a healthy coating of duck fat that results in a crunchy exterior but leaves each fry's interior fresh and tender.
He's most famous for the so-called pine-tar incident, in which a home-plate umpire at Yankees Stadium disallowed a Brett home run on grounds that his bat bore an overly liberal coating of pine tar.
Pegasys takes an old hepatitis C drug, interferon, and wraps it in a protective polymer coating of polyethylene glycol (PEG for short) that prevents the interferon from being broken down quickly in the body.
The grey stands in contrast to the weathered red outer-coating of the Sheepbed unit, and the darker colour hints at a different oxidation state for iron (Fe) minerals that might be inside the rock.
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Mr Cassagnes saw the potential for the toy when he noticed, while working with metal powders, that marks in a coating of aluminium powder could be seen from the other side of a translucent plate.
Childs had planned for an ingenious coating of prismatic glass, which would animate the base on the exterior, but it was recently jettisoned, on practical grounds, and no one is talking about what will take its place.
Dr Hinterdorfer and his team tested this idea by applying a coating of an antigen (an enzyme called lysozyme) to a mica sheet, and suspending an appropriate antibody from the tip of an atomic-force microscope with a flexible polymer tether.
"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.
The collection's specimens most with a shiny candy coating courtesy of the museum's restoration shop owe something of their survival just to being adorable.
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One Saturday evening in early 2001 Rabinowitz mixed the drug with a solvent, transforming the mound of powder into a film 1 micron thick (that's a thousandth of a millimeter) coating a piece of foil.
Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.
Observations of the material coating the dark face of Iapetus indicate it has a similar composition to the surface material on Phoebe.
Comprising of seven tiny layers, each 50 to 100 nanometers in height, the coating is made of silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide nanorods positioned at an oblique angle.
The latter, developed with partner Elan Pharmaceuticals, proved nearly twice as effective as other MS drugs at preventing the destruction of the protective coating around nerves, the main result of the disease.
P2i has worked closely with Motorola, who have now implemented the technology in 10 million of their latest phones and the polymer is also coating about 60% of the world's hearing aids.
McPhail explains that Liquipel has developed a proprietary nanotech coating that adding a superthin protective coating to all of the phones parts.
The first they dealt with by coating the top of the device with oxides of hafnium, molybdenum and titanium, in layers about 100 nanometres thick.
For an inexpensive manufacturing process, Norton has turned to electroplating, which has been around for more than a century for coating a variety of materials.
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The two researchers built their transistors by coating both sides of a sheet of paper with semiconductors made of oxides of zinc, gallium and indium, rather than silicon.
Overall sales did decline by about 1% with the worst of the declines coming from the key US market, and excluding parts, actual bike sales dropped 5.5% worldwide and 8.4% in the U.S. Despite the declines, Harley management is heartened by the moderating pace, yet they are not sugar coating the reality of the situation.
Instead of digging holes in the electrodes, they are coating them with a forest of carbon nanotubes, each five nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide.
Additionally, the anti-reflective coating on both sides of the cover improves the review of images on the display after capture, particularly in unfavorable lighting conditions.
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Following that tradition, the brainiacs over at the University of Reading have developed a new nano-material electrode coating based on the cellular structure of plants.
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