Sentence examples for rigid shell from inspiring English sources

The cooled stereotype plate resembles a rigid shell, solid or ribbed according to its thickness.

When a fuel tank's rigid shell splits open on impact, the bladder inside stretches to absorb the impact without bursting.

The boy behind the Nutcracker costume — a rigid shell — has to hold it slightly away from his body, so that he won't be dragged away along with it.

The thickness of the cuticle can vary from a thin, flexible membrane, as in some parasitic copepods, to a massive rigid shell, as in crabs.

The Airy hypothesis says that Earth's crust is a more rigid shell floating on a more liquid substratum of greater density.

And its lack of an ordinary turtle-style shell (instead it has a leathery, flexible carapace not attached to its ribs and spinal column) probably represents another adaptation to deep water, where pressures would crack a rigid shell.

This paper is concerned with steady-state heat conduction in rigid shell-like interphase regions.

But Tehuacan162 also had a more modern variant of the gene tga1, which partly released kernels from their rigid shells, making them easier to eat.

The formulation of such problems can be simplified by using specialized equations which model heat conduction in rigid shells in terms of two temperature fields: one for the average temperature and the other for the average temperature gradient through the shell's thickness.

Due to covalent cross-linking, albumin MBs form relatively rigid shells by disulfide bridging of proteins as compared with other compositions of MBs [ 34]; this stabilizes the shell and prevents gas dissolution, resulting in a greater yield and increasing their acoustic durability.

In addition, rigid shells and shields did not allow much movement and locomotion; therefore, the next major change in the evolution of skeleton dislocation of mineralized skeleton from the outside to the inside of animal bodies, proved to be a major adaptive advantage.