Sentence examples for stick to a surface from inspiring English sources

The difficulty is that magnesium does not readily stick to a surface, preferring to float as vapor.

And a seta will stick to a surface most firmly if it is first pushed into the surface and then pulled along it by a few millionths of a metre.

The team covered the robot's feet with tiny rubber spikes that bend and stick to a surface.

This has become a key area of development for F1 cars as they make use of the 'Coanda effect', which defines that gases will stick to a surface they flow alongside, to guide the exhausts gases downwards to the rear floor of the car to improve downforce.

Around the same time (give or take a few thousand years), our ancestors discovered rubbing twigs together could make fire, they worked out ways to draw lines in the dirt, rub chalk against rock and, later, mix pigments of plants and get them to stick to a surface.

Biofilm formation occurs when microorganisms stick to a surface and become permanently attached, eliciting a change in physiology.

But others seem to glide, sticking to a surface and then mysteriously oozing across it.

These results indicate that the silanol content, and possibly the degree of hydration of the fiber surface, is important for a fiber to stick to a cell surface.

A sauce is more likely to stick to a rough surface than a smooth one, which could explain the preference for surface roughness in the varieties of that region.

The surface of a CD is almost perfectly smooth, and paint won't stick to a smooth surface.

It has a thick consistency so it can stick to a vertical surface (called vertical cling) without running down to the floor.