Sentence examples for structure that spans from inspiring English sources

This calcite bonds to the concrete and starts to build up a mineral structure that spans the crack, stopping further growth of the crack and sealing it up.

But the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found it is just one subsidiary in a complex corporate structure that spans the British Virgin Isles and Jersey.

It is a bending-active gridshell structure that spans 37 meters, is four stories high, and is wrapped in a lightweight translucent glass-fibre reinforced polymer membrane.

The mechanism by which this occurs remains stubbornly enigmatic, but, by analogy with the AT-1 and AT-2 families, this translocation event could be mediated by BamA, an essential pore-forming protein in the BAM complex (TC# 1.B.33), or secretion could occur in a vectorial fashion, from the N- to C-terminus, by formation of a hairpin structure that spans the β-barrel pore.

SpoIIIE contains six individual protein subunits that form a ring-shaped motor structure that spans the membrane.

Consistent with structural predictions, the representative transmembrane domain peptide displays little exchange, indicative of a solvent-protected environment and a stable α-helical structure that spans the lipid membrane.

GRHC considers the park to be one of the largest green roofs in the world; it covers "a structural deck supported by two reinforced concrete cast-in-place garages and steel structures that span over the remaining railroad tracks".

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities considers the park to be the largest green roof in the world as it covers a structural deck supported by two reinforced concrete cast-in-place garages and steel structures that span the space above Illinois Central Railroad tracks.

Known as "voltage dependent" when activated by changes in the membrane potential and "neurotransmitter sensitive" when activated by neurotransmitter substances, these channels are protein structures that span the membrane from the extracellular space to the cytoplasm.

More specifically, this evidence, which occurs as fossils of liverwort cryptospores (sporelike structures) that span several genera, was found in rocks laid down between 473 million and 471 million years ago.

Flocs initially formed loose, open structures that spanned broad size ranges, suggesting low repulsion between particles.