Sentence examples for sliding apart from inspiring English sources

Difficult as it may be to imagine, these Tucson Mountains and the Santa Catalinas to the east were one mass of rock until they began to separate 30 million years ago, sliding apart and creating room for Tucson in between.

Hydrothermal synthesis of MoS2 in an autoclave was also found to result in destacking, and in that study, the presence of hydrocarbons was presented as a possible contributor (Peng et al. 2001) while, in a separate study, Chianelli et al. note that possible intercalation of H2 at high pressures could result in MoS2 layers simply sliding apart over time (Chianelli et al. 2006).

Dancers hanging over bolsters, their shoulder blades sliding apart under their skin.

Kinesin-5 motors crosslink adjacent microtubules to drive or constrain their sliding apart, but the structural basis of their organization is unknown.

While it is still unknown how dynein produces this inward force, it has been speculated to do so by sliding apart anti-parallel MTs (Tanenbaum et al., 2008; Ferenz et al., 2009).

Thus, we propose that the alternating pattern of interfaces revealed by the BASS structure serves not only to specify the assembly of Kinesin-5 subunits into bipolar tetramers, but also to increase central rod stability during force transmission in a manner that facilitates its ability to push apart or to restrain the sliding apart of cross-linked MTs.

So the phone's top and bottom halves slide apart like tectonic plates, revealing a handsome, illuminated thumb keyboard.

Then, my favourite, the "shedservatory", which slides apart, giving the powerful telescope inside an uninterrupted view of the night sky (is Buckinghamshire really dark enough though?).

He takes sweet Chatham cod and pairs it with zucchini, broccoli, basil and a hint of chili fire, cooking the fish to beautiful flakiness, so that it slides apart under the least pressure from a fork.

Can you guess what is in it today?" As it rotated and ticked before its pint-sized audience, triangular segments on the top would slide apart and the puppet character destined to be the focus of the episode's adventures would rise up on some hidden clockwork mechanism.

Graphite layers are easy to slide apart due to the weak adhesive energy between the carbon sheets.