The greater surface area means it's absorbed more oil.
The polypropylene was also broken down and transformed into smaller pieces, creating a greater surface area for chemical transmission.
Moreover, larger tires with greater surface area than passenger car tires build up unusually high stresses in such tests.
According to the engineers, the pellets' greater surface area meant they were exposed to larger quantities of lubricant.
You could use a sharp knife to "butterfly" the prawns to create a greater surface area for your seasoning: score down the belly and open out.
Floods can be caused either by an excess of rainfall leading to greater surface runoff or by storm surges raising the sea level.
I prefer the lazier method of using apple halves arranged round-side down, as suggested by Claire Clark, to cover the base of the dish – it's much easier, and gives a greater surface area for toffee coverage.
Seeds, increasingly of an imported, genetically altered variety with more of the hash-heavy female plants and with leaves of a greater surface area, are broadcast on the soil in the spring.
The very finest ice, in Mr. Redding's opinion — a true cube that provides greater surface area for faster drink cooling and does not melt as quickly as fragments do — is not easy to find outside a restaurant.
In tropical climates, for example, it is an advantage to be short because that means there is a greater surface area for the body's sweat to evaporate in relation to the body's volume.
Wide voids -- the open spaces between the tread blocks -- expose a greater surface area of the tread lugs to the snow, enabling them to dig through accumulated powder in search of traction.
