For starters, check out UltraTech's Ever Dry -- a miraculous nanocoating that can make practically any object impervious to water, oil, dirt and even wet concrete.

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On the supply side, natural gas rigs are rapidly moving from dry gas production in the Marcellus shales and other basins to wet gas and oil-rich shales.

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It has a dry gas, wet gas, volatile oil and black oil phases.

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An elevated conveyor carries the potatoes into the noisy and dimly lit plant, which smells of wet vegetables and cooking oil.

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Globs of wet, sticky brown oil stretched Friday morning along Fourchon Beach, one of the parts of the Louisiana Gulf coast heaviest hit by the spill so far.

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De Kooning relished studio experiments, like mixing oil paint with water for puckered textures, or off-printing parts of wet paintings onto pages of the Times, making a mad science of beauty.

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