Sentence examples for oily substance from inspiring English sources

Oil beetles secrete an oily substance that protects them from predators because of its bad taste.

Cuticle wax is a solid oil, and is just as susceptible to the diatoms' charms as any other oily substance.

The oily substance derived from wool, and is linked to allergies which cause an itchy rash for some people.

The drug prevents pimples by shrinking the glands attached to hair follicles that, in acne sufferers, overproduce an oily substance known as sebum, which can clog pores.

Each follicle contains a tiny hair and several glands that produce an oily substance called sebum that is emptied onto the skin's surface.

In 2006, a Pile company barge sank in the Hudson River, near 57th Street, Mr. Yassky said, leaking an oily substance into the river.

Activists walked barefoot through an oily substance leaving footprints on the gallery's marble floor as a symbol of fossil fuel corporations' influence on museums.

"Medical science has not devised a way to get these oily substances out of the lung".

A water-based layer prevents oily substances from being absorbed and a fatty layer of the skin prevents water soluble substances from being absorbed.

Age and sex hormones also influence the proportions of the waxy or oily substances that make up sebum, including glycerides, free fatty acids, wax esters and cholesterol.

The scientists can further control the flow of liquids by coating some surfaces with hydrophobic substances -- essentially oily substances that repel water -- while coating others with a water-attracting layer.