Sentence examples for quite impermeable from inspiring English sources

In contrast to other membrane systems, the OM is quite impermeable to hydrophobic molecules and chemicals, including many antibiotics, in part due to the presence of lipopolysaccharide (Ruiz et al., 2008).

Titanium nitride is quite an attractive material because it behaves as an impermeable barrier to silicon and it has high activation energy to the diffusion of other impurities [4].

This resistance is typically quite high (108 Ohm-cm2 or more) since the hydrophobic core is impermeable to charged species.

In addition to this, because weathering is less developed, impermeable granitic bedrock is found at shallow depth and aquifer vulnerability is quite high.

Mitochondria are quite distinctive in appearance they are enclosed by two membranes, a porous outer one and a largely impermeable inner membrane.

In areas underlain by an impermeable layer (seasonally frozen ground or perennially frozen ground), the active layer is often saturated with moisture and is quite mobile.

They're very impermeable.

Big corporations have developed morally impermeable skins.

His team, so impermeable before, were punctured.

An impermeable police hierarchy is another problem.

The inertia is stultifying, but not impermeable.