Sentence examples for it impermeable from inspiring English sources

Researchers have not been able to quantify C1q concentrations in mastitic milk and primarily attribute this to its large size (900 kDa), which may render it impermeable to the mammary epithelium [ 40].

It impermeable to gases, even those as light as hydrogen or helium, and, if that were not enough, chemical components can be added to its surface to alter its properties.

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.

As a result of these tiny structural changes, scorpion venom binds to Nav1.8 and switches it off, perhaps by plugging the pore or making it impermeable to sodium ions in some other way, thus blocking the transmission of pain signals into the spinal cord.

CTG contains a thiol reactive portion, which undergoes a glutathione S-transferase-mediated reaction within the cytoplasm of the cell, making it impermeable to cell membranes, thereby trapping the fluorescent tracer within the cell.

The envelope was made of cardboard to render it impermeable to intense light.

At the outcrop the water moves down into the aquifer (water-bearing layer) but is prevented from leaving it, by impermeable rock layers (such as shale) above and below it.

The largely unhindered adsorption and desorption of hydrogen on platinum as well as the oxidation of the metal surface beneath the film show that it is permeable to hydroxide and/or hydrogen ions, whereas it is impermeable to the larger species used.

Its biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy have made it most impermeable to the xenobiotic.

A century of data collected by oil companies suggest it is impermeable rocks such as granite that are the most effective reservoirs of heat.

The membrane is freely permeable to water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose, urea, and certain other substances, but it is impermeable to hemoglobin.