Sentence examples for Immobilized from inspiring English sources

When a rock cools from the molten to the solid state, its radioactive isotopes are immobilized in mineral crystal lattices and then decay in place.

Much larger amounts of water are mechanically immobilized between the elongated peptide chains of fibrous proteins; for example, one gram of gelatin can immobilize at room temperature 25 to 30 grams of water.

For four years, the Shining Path made steady gains as its bombing campaigns and assassinations immobilized the capital, and the country was brought close to anarchy.

On February 24 the Germans sought to advance from their position at Samogneux, but they were immobilized by French artillery.

Meanwhile, Adm. Edward Hawke destroyed or immobilized the principal French line fleet at Quiberon Bay in 1759.

While he suppressed a revolt at Volterra (April 27 , 1530, however, Empoli was taken by the enemy, and an illness then immobilized him in Pisa.

British opinion was outraged, and America's friends in Parliament were immobilized.

Time is marked as the steer is immobilized between the two horses, both facing the steer in a straight line.

Although some are known to eat fishes immobilized in nets, the best-studied species, Myxine glutinosa, normally feeds on soft-bodied invertebrates and larger dead animals.

With the fall of the Emirau Islands on March 20, the Allies' stranglehold on Rabaul and Kavieng was practically complete, so that they could thenceforth disregard the 100,000 Japanese immobilized there.

They are crystalline, ceramic materials whose crystal structures allow radioactive atoms to be immobilized within them.