Sentence examples for impermeable water from inspiring English sources

The method successfully developed in 1D for computing inert interfaces (e.g. impermeable water gas shock tube problem) and flame interfaces (e.g. Chapman Jouguet deflagration and strong detonation wave) with excellent robustness and accuracy properties is extended here to two dimensional problems.

In a well that is being treated, the clay rich interburden is effectively impermeable to water, so the first production water that the coating encounters is on the well side.

Urothelium is generally considered to be impermeable to water and constituents of urine.

The hydrophobic nature of lignin makes it impermeable to water and is thus crucial for a vascular system, enabling transport of water throughout the plant [ 5].

(Because permafrost is impermeable to water, waterlogged soil near the surface slides easily down a slope).

Epidermal cells secrete a waxy substance (cutin) that forms a cuticle impermeable to water.

Because permafrost is impermeable to water, soil overlying it may become oversaturated and slide downslope under the pull of gravity.

Like mammals, and unlike the lower vertebrates, birds and reptiles have skins impermeable to water and thus are well adapted to terrestrial life.

Even if aquatic organisms have an integument that is relatively impermeable to water, as well as to small inorganic ions, their respiratory exchange surfaces are permeable.

In terrestrial vertebrates, however, the epidermis becomes keratinized; i.e., the outer layers of cells produce keratin, a protein that is hardened and is impermeable to water.

He made the house's wooden beams visible from more than one room by putting glass panels along the top of some walls, and the sink in the master bathroom was made of wood, treated to make it impermeable to water.