Our skills become rusty and eventually disappear when they go unused.
After the withdrawal, the American tools to understand the complexity of relationships in Central and South Asia became rusty.
Nails had become rusty, planks had to be smashed to open the cases.
Surmounting the structure at intervals of about three feet are Y-shaped pieces of metal, on which are strung strands of barbed wire that have become rusty.
The technology was too expensive to implement, and bike-share organizers found that the bicycles, when stored outdoors for extended periods, became rusty.
In those years (which immediately follow the close of his autobiography 'A Sort of Life'), his writing became rusty with misuse and disuse.
It is very strong, it has hardly any friction on the surface, it doesn't want to react with anything, [it] cannot oxidize and become rusty".
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We, as scientists collectively, have become rusty on that". Emanuel and Pielke Jr have both underscored a little-publicized point in Emanuel's recent Nature paper on how hurricane intensity increases with increasing sea surface temperature — that the link does not explain the unprecedented damage from Hurricane Katrina6,7.
It is very strong, it has hardly any friction on the surface, it doesn't want to react with anything, [it] cannot oxidize and become rusty". David Phillips, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: "Quasicrystals are a fascinating aspect of chemical and material science – crystals that break all the rules of being a crystal at all.
