Sentence examples for clay rock from inspiring English sources

"The clay rock has such power of retention that if there were to be any release from the canister at any phase of the storage period, the radioactive elements would also be trapped on the surface of the minerals in the clay".

Adsorption and diffusion experiments of EuIII were performed in Callovo-Oxfordian (clay clay rock in the presence of EDTA.

Thin layers of clay, rock or meteorite material were shown to be only successful in UV-shielding, if they are in direct contact with the spores.

A borehole in the Callovo Oxfordian clay rock in ANDRA's underground research facility was sampled during 1 year and chemically analyzed.

Diffusion rates are very low since the clay rock pores are so small (few nm) that electrostatic repulsion limits the space available for anion diffusion (anion exclusion).

The model calculates the observed concentration changes very well and provides an estimate of the pristine porewater composition in the clay rock.

At the site of the landslide, four large diggers, borrowed from the Chinese contractors who were working on widening the Karakoram Highway, are lifting clay, rocks and soil from the landslide to build the spillway channel.

Wherever she went, she looked for villages whose remoteness or indigence saved them from the wrecking ball of modernization and therefore still boasted buildings made of "creamy yellow sandstone, or black lava, or dense blue stones, or pink clay rocks".

Half a kilometre below ground in the Champagne-Ardenne region of eastern France, near the village of Bure, a network of tunnels and galleries is being hacked out of the 160 million-year-old compacted clay rocks.

The present article discusses possible pitfalls and difficulties in the classical through-diffusion technique applied to situations where large diffusive fluxes of cations in compacted clay minerals or clay rocks occur.

With her raw, sculptural objects made of clay, rocks, and pigment, Regel conjures up poetry in the misshapen.