While crystalline and amorphous silicates are important constituents of cometary dust, the major constituents are organic-rich carbonaceous materials encasing the silicates.
What catches fire first is the fabric encasing the foam.
But the more closely that researchers examine the human genome -- the complement of genetic material encased in the heart of almost every cell of the body -- the more most of them are convinced that the standard labels used to distinguish people by "race" have little or no biological meaning.
Graphitic carbon material encasing chromium oxide nanoribbons [Cr2O3 C composite] is obtained by carbonizing a mixture of furfuryl alcohol and Cr-BDC MOF [BDC: benzene dicarboxylic acid; Cr3F(H2O)2O[(O2C)C6H4–(CO2)]3·nH2O] at 900 °C under inert atmosphere.
Dr. Tumidajski hopes that the material, encased in two layers of conventional concrete, will be laid on the decks of highway bridges.
The human genome, the sum of all genetic material encased in nearly every cell of the human body, is very, very long -- at least three billion chemical letters long, as many letters as you would find in a thousand copies of an entire Sunday issue of The New York Times.
Light-emitting diodes are tiny, square flecks of semiconductor material encased in clear epoxy that acts as a lens to focus the light they emit.
Traditionally, transferring 2-D materials from a growth substrate onto a destination substrate, such as a flexible surface, requires encasing the whole grown material in a polymer, chemically etching it, and separating it from its growth substrate.
Encasing the bomb's plutonium pit in a tamper (an optional layer of dense material) decreases the amount of plutonium needed to reach critical mass by reflecting escaping neutrons back into the plutonium core.
