Sentence examples for poor scratch from inspiring English sources

Even if polymer coatings are widely used for industrial applications, their performances are often limited by a poor scratch resistance or a high water and gas permeability.

The coating prepared with 6 g/l KOH had lower inert incorporation zirconia, higher porosity, higher corrosion current (icorr = 1.43 × 10− 4 mandm2), and exhibited gross spallation and poor scratch resistance.

Among the coatings, the coating produced at 10%duty 500 Hz frequency had a lower thickness, poor corrosion resistance (icorr, 1.9 × 10− 4 mandm2) and poor scratch resistance (Lc, 15 N) while the coating produced at 95% duty 1000 Hz frequency showed higher corrosion resistance (icorr, 3.3 × 10− 6 mA/cm2), higher scratch resistance (Lc, 26 N) and had a dense coating.

Only a couple of poor families scratch out a living here; a dust-covered donkey treks through the rubble and an old woman, wrapped in black, her hands worn like dark brown leather, peers out from a doorway.

Poor families scratched together their dollars to buy an encyclopedia, to join the Book of the Month Club, to buy Will and Ariel Durant's "Civilization" series or the Robert Maynard Hutchins's Great Books.

His second book, the first of a projected trilogy, is largely set in 1920s Ireland among the "mountainy men" of Wexford, poor farmers scratching out their living on the margins of the bog.

"Poaching is not about poor farmers scratching out a living, or retaliating against a tiger that has invaded a village garden - this is big business.

Yeah, but how many coaches willingly divulge when they've fined a player or decided to make an example of his poor play by scratching him?

But his attempt to send a force northward to relieve Paris from siege was frustrated by Moltke and by the poor quality of the scratch French forces.

And don't forget that supermarkets have actively undermined our national food handling experience and skill by telling us that we're too "time poor" to cook from scratch, largely because it is much more profitable for them to sell us value-added, processed foods whose apparent freshness is validated by reassuring dates.

We speculate that this lack of standardization partly contributed to the previous estimates of poor performance for the scratch test.