For instance, electroplating can be used to coat a thin layer of gold on to a cheap piece of material.
In Afghanistan, the foam would be wrapped in a low-tech layer of chicken wire, then covered in a thin layer of concrete.
The cotton fibers are made conductive by coating the fibers, first with gold nanoparticles, and then with a thin layer of PEDOT.
To compensate for this, egg producers in the US commonly used to spray eggs with a thin layer of odorless, colorless mineral oil.
But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.
Then, apply a thin layer of the topical agent once or twice a day for at least two weeks, or according to package directions.
The artificial bone, porous and coated with a thin layer of calcium phosphate, is implanted into the arm in place of the damaged bone.
To enable this material to store electrical energy, two layers of woven fibres are made into a sandwich, separated by a thin layer of a glass-based insulating material.
To ensure the building looked like an old brownstone from the outside, Mr. Peterson took a thin layer of real brownstone and attached it to light aluminum honeycomb.
Dr Bard and his colleagues have developed a novel form of memory that consists of a thin layer of organic liquid crystal sandwiched between two sheets of glass.
Outside my hotel room window, a thin layer of clouds has stolen over the valley, diffusing the light and making it difficult to see where the sun really is.
Another boy spreads a thin layer of the mixture on a photo frame and a third, seated on his haunches, starts pasting tiny pieces of mirrors and sequins along the border.
See, your eyelids actually spread a film of oil over your eyeball which protects a thin layer of tears that allow you to keep your eye open without it drying out.
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Displaying the charred remains of two recently zapped plane panels, Hadad explains that a thin layer of copper mesh on an aircraft's exterior can drastically reduce the damage caused when lightning strikes.
Plank's son Roger, 42, who serves as chief financial officer, keeps a reminder of those days on his desk: a small vial of foul-looking water with a thin layer of crude oil on the top.
The device that Dr Kirczenow and Dr Rego had in mind is called a semiconductor heterostructure a semiconductor sandwich made of a thin layer of aluminium gallium arsenide held between two thicker layers of gallium arsenide.
To preserve them for more than a billion years to make fossils out of ephemera a site first has to coat its remains in a fixative: a thin layer of waterproof sediment that will slowly harden into stone.
The robot (or snailbot) is comprised of moveable segments that ripple on top of a thin layer of synthetic snail sludge, and, just like its living counterpart, is able to climb up walls and stick to ceilings.
The company is installing equipment at the new factory in Portland and bringing the machines online to roll out its solar panels, which contain a thin layer of solar cells made with copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS).
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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.
The other established approach is to take two wafers of silicon, coat each with a thin layer of glass on one side (which is done by baking them in oxygen), and then fuse them together to produce a silicon-glass-silicon sandwich.
In one of such sessions, together with his doctoral student Konstantin Novoselov, he used a piece of ordinary sticky tape (which allegedly they found in a bin) to peel off a very thin layer of graphite, taken from a pencil.
Also, scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have been able to build a nano-thin layer of particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material.
On Wednesday the system left a rare thin layer of snow across the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California -- as far south as the border with Mexico.
The most promising sail material has a carbon-fibre backing coated with a thin layer (just a few tens of atoms thick) of aluminium.
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When rotating, the forces of nature keep the thin layer of liquid mercury in the shape of a parabola.
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The new microscope, called Multi-View SPIM (MuVi-SPIM) shines a thin sheet of light on the embryo, illuminating one layer of the embryo at a time to prevent light damage.
The result is a thin reflective layer that floats on the surface of the oil.
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