Sentence examples for fibre down from inspiring English sources

Cashmere is the fine, undercoat fibre (down) produced by cashmere goats in some of the most arid parts of Central Asia, including China, Mongolia, Iran and Afghanistan.

Production caused fibre draw down ratios (DDR) from 1 to a maximum of 54 resulting in fibre diameters from 0.7 mm down to 0.07 mm were used.

Wasli feels dense and stiff: the resilience of the fibre held down under a hard-burnished skin, rubbed smooth with an agate.

The electrical resistivity of the fibres and the percolation threshold were obtained as a function of weight fraction of MWCNTs and the fibre draw down ratio.

They are long, slender, woven baskets of plant fibres and down, suspended from a strip of vegetation attached at only one side of the nest.

Most conventional composites resemble plywood in that they are built in thin layers, each of which is reinforced by long fibres laid down in a single direction.

Longitudinal fibres on the left radiate from the esophagus over the dome of the fundus to cover the greater curvature and continue on to the pylorus, where they join the longitudinal fibres coming down over the lesser curvature.

Its transparency commends it for optical fibres, and Omenetto and colleagues have previously shaped silk films into so-called waveguides, rather like very thin optical fibres laid down directly on a solid surface such as a silicon chip.

The rug was cream-colored and Gabriela ran her hand across it, smoothing the fibres down.

It breaks muscle fibres down.

"If we can help to get more fibres down there in the gut then it's a good thing," she adds.