Sentence examples for major surface composition from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, iron and zinc form the major surface composition of galvanized steel.

Samples of each of these compositions were recovered in one or both of two major surface units of the Apollo 14 landing site within Fra Mauro: the immediate impact blanket of Cone crater, about 25 million years old, and surrounding older terrain.

The surface composition is enigmatic because... it consists of rock types that we don't have much experience with.

It will carry instruments to detect the planet's surface composition, any water or shallow buried ice, and radiation.

Given the Earth's surface composition, meteorites have a seventy-one-per-cent chance of landing in water.

Triton is similar in size, density, and surface composition to the dwarf planet Pluto.

Tubiana characterized the comet's shape, size, color, albedo, rotational period, and surface composition.

Their surface composition is similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.

Its surface composition is thought to be broadly similar to its composition as a whole.

The ionized material that surrounded the star emits light that "tells us the elemental composition of the wind, and hence the surface composition of the star as it was just before it exploded," Gal-Yam said.

The surface composition of Ceres is broadly similar to that of C-type asteroids.