Sentence examples for highly impervious from inspiring English sources

In addition to providing the best adhesion, the a-SiNx interlayer was found to significantly improve the corrosion resistance of the DLC system since it is highly impervious to the liquid.

The presence of a polymerized resin gives the sample qualities such as being highly impervious to water and having high mechanical strength, allowing its use in the manufacture of different types of materials.

Storm event monitoring and sediment collection were conducted from May 2009 to November 2012 on the presettling basins of the three BMP technologies designed to capture and treat stormwater runoff from highly impervious roads and parking lots.

Strikingly, Chlamydiae and Deinococcus-Thermus seemed highly impervious to their surroundings and maintained a very restricted GC-composition with a standard deviation of approximately ±5.5 and ±5.9, respectively.

If you're working on a basement floor, buy the compound made with Portland cement rather than gypsum because Portland cement is highly impervious to water.

The upper Damodar watershed is highly urbanized leading to increase in impervious surface, which causes increase in storm water runoff and decrease in infiltration and ground water recharge.

In contrast, arsenic in nails can be an excellent biomarker of exposure because it principally measures inorganic arsenic exposure, integrates exposure over several weeks, is a highly stable matrix, and is relatively impervious to external contamination or other confounders (Karagas et al. 1996, 2000, 2001a, 2001b; Nichols et al. 1998).

Since the commercial development variable remained in the regression model with a negative coefficient however, it seems that as mixed land patterns give way to highly impacted landscapes, with high levels of impervious surface, there reaches a point at which protective cover falls below a minimal threshold.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of DNA from the plastid to the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of higher plants is a common phenomenon; however, plastid genomes (plastomes) are highly conserved and have generally been regarded as impervious to HGT.

The initial values for the two complements cannot be measured using this protocol as condensed sperm is notably impervious to immunostaining due to its highly compacted chromatin state [ 6], resulting in unreliable semi-quantification values for PN0.

The three beautiful, highly educated Hindu Brahmin girls were groomed to be impervious to trouble -- first at an exclusive convent school that guaranteed them, Tara notes ironically, "poise, English proficiency, high-level contacts, French language skills and confident survival in whatever future the gods or the Communists might dole out".