Instead of using burr-like, air-filled nanostructures to repel water, the plant locks in a water layer, creating a slick coating on the top.
Turtle eggs begin hatching in July, but with the oil slick coating most of the area, baby turtles will have a far smaller chance of making it to deeper waters and surviving, environmentalists say.
his jet-black hair seemed to have a slick coating of shoe polish, and he was wearing a hair net...
Before it was over, an oil slick coated the coastal waters and stretched 35 miles from Rincon Point, on the Santa Barbara-Ventura County line, to Goleta.
Aizenberg's team first developed SLIPS, or Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces, in 2011 and since then has demonstrated a broad range of applications for the super-slick coating.
When a few handfuls of the soil are dropped into a bucket of water, a thick oil-slick coats the surface.
At the 40th anniversary celebration, the Snake Run has been given a slick new coat of paint, with a gun-metal grey snake flicking out its tongue.
For most Western people, when we think of the cow we think of her as dinner, as the skin behind a slick new coat or a sturdy new pair of shoes.
There are other recessive alleles, such as slick hair coat [ 39], that are segregating in some lines of Holstein and are desirable to producers in sub-tropical regions, and the modified Pryce method could be used to increase the frequency of such alleles in the population.
Some of the clothes, especially the cable knits and slick-looking coats, may have an appeal, but the thought process did not seem very sophisticated.
