Helmets contain a thick layer of polystyrene which absorbs the force of an impact.
This container is filled with 50kg of liquid argon and a thick layer of the element in its gas form.
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The explosions were accompanied by heavy rain, leaving the island's roads coated in a thick layer of mud.
To get beyond Eggleston's Freudian couch, swine also need a 2-inch-thick layer of exterior fat along the belly and back.
Particularly offensive is Mr Obama's thick layer of competitive grants for favoured initiatives (merit pay and charter schools among them).
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Everything was covered with a thick layer of grime, from the old fashioned metal light fittings to door handles and banisters.
The Walkman introduced a thick layer of static to the music-listening experience.
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Using a micron-thick layer of gallium arsenide, it can get flexible solar cells that are 29 percent efficient, nearly double commodity silicon cells.
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The autopsy video he showed next, of a man being sliced open and relieved of a thick layer of fat, was even more electrifying and repulsive.
That done, he deposits them in a 100 nanometre-thick layer on top of a piece of glass, to which they stick without the need for glue.
The field had to contend with a thick layer of fog which delayed play for over three hours and 75 players have yet to complete the second round.
It must be buried under a mountain, sunk to the bottom of the sea, or placed under a thick layer of salt deep under a desert for instance.
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When I got there I had to stop, because the bridge was filled with people, terrified people, their suits and briefcases covered in a thick layer of white soot.
The investigators watched as the fire quickly consumed the couch, sending upward a plume of smoke that hit the ceiling and spread outward, creating a thick layer of hot gases overhead an efficient radiator of heat.
Getting out of its way took the tires of the Jaguar XJ out of ruts on bare asphalt and onto a thick layer of icy brown sludge deposited by an entire day of freezing rain.
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The archaeologists put the shoe's remarkable preservation down to the stable, cool and dry conditions in the cave and the fact that the floor of the cave was covered by a thick layer of sheep dung.
The rillettes in a potted-duck appetizer were packed tightly into a small glass jar and sealed with a thick layer of creamy, peppered lard for spreading on toast triangles, while a mammoth pork chop, marbled with luscious fat, tasted of buttered popcorn.
"Damage to the throat after death appears to be unlikely, because the collar around the mummy's neck was intact and undamaged at the unwrapping in 1886, where a thick layer of bitumen was removed with a hammer from the mummy, " the study says.
Even though I had been assured that the tags wouldn't hurt the walruses because of their tough skin and thick layer of blubber, I was still relieved to see that the animal barely seemed to notice the tag as it landed on its hide.
The uppermost parts of its thick cloud layer mysteriously absorb half of the ultraviolet light received by the planet.
Depending on how the devices are constructed (namely, how thick each layer is) they can last for hours, days, months or even years.
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Temperatures as low as -23C (-9F) and heavy snowfall this month have left the capital Kiev and most of the country under a thick frozen layer.
Morning comes, and the boar tracks are buried beneath a fresh layer of thick, pristine snow.
That seed is germinating deep beneath an obscuring layer of thick, black soil.
With her black hair lying against her pale white face, she looked like a queen who dwelled within a secluded, innermost palace, behind layer upon layer of thick curtains.
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Once the container is spinning at the correct speed (typically a few revolutions per minute), the mercury spreads out to form a layer less than a millimetre thick, and in such a way that variations in the thickness of the mercury layer compensate for the imperfect shape of the container.
The AP1000's shield building consists of a concrete layer, sandwiched between thick steel plates.
There, hiding under a layer of salt as thick as 15, 000 feet, Chevron found the Tahiti field, which now produces 125, 000 barrels per day from reservoirs 25, 000 feet deep.
Then, quite suddenly, 65m years ago, a layer of lava nearly 2km thick appears.
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