Sentence examples for spacers from inspiring English sources

Another was to engineer tall, skinny spacers to stop the screen from touching the cones.

This could precipitate a big shift in the window industry, and its focus on spacers, adhesives and sealants: "All of that goes out the window," he says.Once the home has been duly sealed, the flow of air, moisture and heat in and out of it can be carefully controlled.

Even aluminium spacers between panes have been replaced with plastic because they conduct too much heat.

These spacers have to be a millimetre high but only a few thousandths of a millimetre wide so that they can fit between the phosphors without interrupting the flow of electrons.There is also the difficulty of keeping the vacuum hard, to stop electrons bumping into stray gas molecules on their way to the phosphors.

In beans, copia and its kin appear to act as harmless spacers that sit between the plant's genes.

It was not until 1973 that he thought about adapting his invention so that it could be laid over screens.Elographics then did away with the needles and developed a new device based on two transparent, conductive surfaces separated by a small air gap maintained by a series of spacers.

Even then, there are further measures to be taken in the endless battle against blisters, split toenails, corns and – most dreaded of all – the development of bunions, in the form of gel pads and toe-spacers, tape or wads of lambswool wrapped around the toes.

He sputter-coated sandwiches of magnetic layers only a few atoms thick, separated by "spacer" layers of non-magnetic metals.

They found that varying the thickness of the spacer layer actually affected the behaviour of the magnetic layers.

In essence, the spin-valve structure of a GMR head has three very thin layers: a "pinned" layer of magnetic material that is kept in a fixed magnetic orientation; a non-magnetic spacer layer; and a second magnetic layer that changes magnetic orientation as the disk rotates beneath it (see illustration above).GMR exploits a quantum property of electrons called spin.

In building up whole walls, two wooden planks separated by a spacer bolt are used as a form, and the earth is rammed into this in layers; when the form is filled, it is removed and superimposed on the top of the wall and more earth is rammed in until the desired height is reached.