Arriving somewhat tardily to this merry key party, McGinn slaps up an extra layer of aluminum siding on Garber's metaphor.
I wrapped the duck in bacon, threw an obscuring layer of aluminum foil over the top and put it in the roasting pan.
The grass and leaves around the huge sorting shed, where the Zorba had been taken, were covered with a thin layer of aluminum dust.
They placed a layer of aluminum oxide on top a neatly stacked crystal of buckyballs and then gold electrodes on the aluminum oxide.
Instead of adding impurities, the Bell Labs' researchers sprayed a thin, deep purple film of polythiophene onto a layer of aluminum oxide and gold electrodes.
Add a layer of aluminum oxide to a crystal made of neatly stacked soccer-ball shaped carbon molecules known as buckyballs, and the result is a superconductor that effortlessly carries electricity at relatively warm temperatures.
In the latest efforts, instead of adding potassium, the layer of aluminum oxide along with three gold electrodes form an electronic device known as a field-effect transistor on the surface of a pure crystal of buckyballs.
Take your brined, herb-rubbed and rolled pork and wrap it in a double layer of aluminum foil, followed by a double layer of wet newspaper to protect it from the scorching heat (the paper will not burn).
A double layer of aluminum foil seems to make the best wrapper because it is strong enough to stand up to the heat, holds the contents securely and is pliable enough to allow tight folding and rolling.
But scientists who tried to reproduce the experiment have been stymied at the first step of the first experiment, making the layer of aluminum oxide, which acts as an insulator to prevent electric charge on the gold electrodes from arcing across to the buckyballs.
Aluminum is a case in point: it is resistant to corrosion precisely because the surface of the pure metal reacts with oxygen to form a layer of aluminum oxide, which serves to protect the interior of the metal from further oxidation.
