Sentence examples for ordinary substance from inspiring English sources

Alok Jha is the author of The Water Book: the Extraordinary Story of Our Most Ordinary Substance.

But it is one of the most ordinary substances ever to be bootlegged.

Physicists are taking ordinary substances like fiberglass and copper to build metamaterials that look like mosaics of repeating tiles.

Artificial skin had been the holy grail in treating burn victims for a century when Dr. John F. Burke began wrestling with some of the perennial obstacles to making it: finding a flexible material that would protect against infection and dehydration, that could be made from ordinary substances, that would not be rejected by a patient's immune system and that would look like normal skin.

The IAPWS formulation 1995 for the thermodynamic properties of ordinary water substance for general and scientific use.

DMP 504, a potential bile acid sequestrant for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, is a highly insoluble, cross-linked polymer which does not lend itself to ordinary means of characterization used for drug substances in the pharmaceutical industry.

This list refers to things that would fall within the ordinary meaning of "information" and contains nothing that could be considered biological samples, substances, or specimens.

But the real prize among these is a single grain of what is, to most of us, the most ordinary of substances: silica — a piece of silicon dioxide, or sand.

He avoids having to face the problem that one set of things is basic or substantial descriptively, namely the atoms from which everything is constituted, and another set of things the macroscopic objects of our ordinary lives are substances by the criterion of teleological importance.

These decay curves had the same exponential form as those of ordinary radioactive substances, and gave a mean lifetime of 2.3±0.2 microseconds, which was later refined to 2.15±0.07 microseconds.

The in vitro studies involve the dispersion of CNTs with a standard dispersant and use of ISO-compliant test methods similar to those used for ordinary chemical substances.