"It abrades the surface and makes it like coarse sandpaper," he said.
Time is a stream, flowing around us and through us, incising lines on faces as it abrades rocks.
The body suffers from being immersed for days in salt water: when a swimmer swallows water as she breathes, it abrades the soft tissue of the lips, the tongue, and the throat.
"It abrades and cuts open the skin of the coral and then can convey pathogenic microorganisms and shades and cuts off water flow".
This second coating lasts until it is abraded by hard foods or is brushed from the teeth, and is designed to give the chlorhexidine extended contact time on the enamel.
On their best tracks – such as Air War, Not in Love and their remix of HEALTH – Crystal Castles took polite, even cute, digital sound and abraded it until it was scratched and scarred.
Lobstermen say the rope sinks to the rocky bottom, where it easily abrades and breaks free, resulting in more lost gear.
Although monofilament line can be damaged by long exposure to sunlight and heat, it should serve the average fisherman at least two years, unless it has been abraded by rocks or by grooves in rod guides or the bearing on the pickup bail.
Since abrasive wear takes place when the abrading material is rough and harder than the surface to be abraded, it can be prevented either by eliminating the hard, rough constituent or by making the surface to be protected harder still.
Also, the wear loss of the coating is only 0.01 g after it has been abraded for 60 min, which is only one fifth of that of the Cu alloy of the crystallizer.
In KLK4 knockout mice although the enamel layer thickness was normal it was rapidly abraded following weaning even when they were maintained with soft chow [55].
