Sentence examples for outer primary from inspiring English sources

Because the simulation suggests that heat released as a result of radioactive decay "far overwhelmed" the effect of the cooling water, he said, and because temperatures in the inner pressure vessel that originally housed the fuel are thought to have dropped quickly, Tepco now assumes that "100 percent of the fuel at Unit 1 has slumped" into the outer primary containment vessel.

This paper also simulates the long-term calculations of spraying the outer primary containment with a water film and the steam condensation of the inner containment.

Each sector consists of a split plate arrangement in which are embedded two windings, an outer primary winding and a narrow inner re-entrant loop control winding immediately adjacent to and surrounding the split or air gap.

In a few well-studied species with stepwise primary replacement, some immatures skip an outer primary (referred to as omissive molts [21]), apparently to set up a point of molt initiation in the outermost primaries for the following molt.

The stent-graft is constrained within a flexible secondary sheath that is further constrained within an outer primary sheath.

In the fifth bird (Fig.  3, black symbols), the inner primaries P1 P6 had lower δC than the outer primaries, especially the last grown proximal parts of the outer primary P10.

Some snipe and hummingbirds have narrow tail feathers that produce loud sounds when the birds are in flight, as do the narrowed outer primaries of the American woodcock.

The upper wing-coverts are brownish-black and similar to the outer primaries in their margin colouration.

During the northern lapwing's zigzagging display flight, the bird's outer primaries produce a humming sound.

As with most owls, its flight is silent because of its feathers' soft, furry upper surfaces and a fringe on the leading edge of the outer primaries.

The outer primaries of male broad-tailed hummingbirds produce a distinctive high-pitched trill, both in direct flight and in power-dives during courtship displays; this trill is diminished when the outer primaries are worn, and absent when those feathers have been moulted.