• Researchers then force them into neat parallel formations and lift the patches of wires off the water using thin films.

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  • There were deep pools of water separated by thin islands of exposed road that looked too slick and mucky to even attempt.

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  • She also melted chocolate with porcini powder and streamed ribbons of the mixture into cold water to form thin branches.

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  • 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.

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  • Still working on low speed, mix in the boiling water, which will thin the batter considerably.

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  • Each of us wore a lightweight pack, with a water supply fitted to a thin plastic tube to suck on while we ran.

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  • But could little Cyprus , figuratively speaking, be the thin sheen of water that flipped my Corvair from a fun buggy into a death trap?

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  • They walked past thin columns of water at the entrance into an open space, where various objets--an oversize ceramic head and an eye-catching blue glass vessel, for example--sat among high-tech showers, whirlpools, sinks and an oval-shaped toilet, all displayed on pedestals like museum pieces, the better to bring in customers.

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  • Hard rice and salt water had made him scrawny and thin-haired by his 40s.

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  • Most of the slick is a thin sheen on the water's surface.

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  • Both devices combine top-notch specs with beautiful industrial design -- pure rectangular forms with a mirror-like finish packaged in thin, light and water-resistant shells.

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  • If water starts to form elongated beads or a thin sheet on the horizontal panels, it is time to re-wax the car.

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  • Traditionally, every fall along the marshes of Noirmoutier, a tiny island on the French coast, young women would gently rake a thin, white film that forms atop the water.

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  • Although the agreement states that the contract is for the transfer of water, not water rights, letters to the local newspaper say this is the thin end of the wedge.

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  • As the vines have to struggle and stress as they extend the roots through the thin layer of terra rossa and the limestone to the water table, growth of the vine is limited to producing low yielding, intensely flavoured grapes, ideal for making premium wine.

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  • When pressurized water is fed over such an intersection, the pressure pushes down the thin layer of rubber, separating it from the fluid below, and it clamps shut the fluid channel below, like stepping on a hose.

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  • It would also greatly reduce energy costs, since reverse osmosis involves forcing water through filters to remove minerals, and the Perforene filter is so thin that much less pressure is required (graphene is a thousand times stronger than steel).

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  • Formerly, the water from the toilets had flowed out in a stream, but now it was thin vapor the speed of the train tore it into prickly spray.

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