You roll your mind around enough in that stuff and gossamer becomes shellac, and your worldview hardens to the point of impermeability.
(Beckett's Molloy would later wrap himself in its pages and note its impermeability to farts, but the critic's words, if hackneyed, are not unfair or untrue. Which may have been one reason they stung).
Even birth control could be improved by graphene's strength and impermeability to liquids; in 2013, the Gates Foundation put $100,000 into an effort to develop a graphene-enhanced condom.Ideas for using graphene are proliferating almost at the speed at which electrons move within it.
The impermeability and lack of plasticity of human nature provide a rare message of hope in this otherwise dismal story of a wicked dictatorship.
Butyl rubber, made from isobutene with a small amount of isoprene, using aluminum chloride initiator, has outstanding impermeability to gases and is used in inner tubes.
Valued for its chemical inertness, impermeability to gases, and weatherability, butyl rubber is employed in the inner linings of automobile tires and in other specialty applications.
Molten PET can be blow-molded into a transparent container of high strength and rigidity that also possesses good impermeability to gas and liquid.
Another hydrocarbon elastomer starts with isobutylene (C4H8) and gives butyl, a rubber characterized by resistance to oxygen and impermeability to gases, which is used widely in cable insulation and as a coating for fabrics.
Given the relative impermeability of the plasma membrane to Na+, this influx itself implies a sudden change in permeability.
Further compaction of firn, usually at a depth of 45 to 60 m (150 to 200 feet), results in glacial ice, distinguished by its impermeability to air and water.
It is often glazed to provide fluid impermeability and an attractive finish.
