Sentence examples for superficial material from inspiring English sources

Such maudlin, superficial material puts the onus on the actors, who on Saturday varied in interest (and in delivering convincing accents).

But more than superficial material things, wealth also buys financial security (and all the good and ill that comes with it) for subsequent generations.

We indulge our most superficial material impulses.

Older and more superficial materials related to intense lateritic weathering are characterized by allitization with direct formation of gibbsite from silicates, probably related to tropical climates existing immediately before the formation of the continental rift, during the Paleogene, and also before any significant increase in altitude.

Vs was then mapped in terms of the thickness and stiffness of the superficial loamy material horizon, which are called ThickLM and StiffLM, respectively.

This was achieved by constructing a model containing data on four characteristics: the quality of the water leaving the root zone of a piece of land; soil information; presence of low permeability superficial (drift) material; and aquifer properties.

The subsurface was found to consist of three zones for the first 6 m of the pile, mainly based on electrical resistivities: a thin superficial conductive material, an intermediate 2 to 3 m thick highly resistive zone, and a lower, more conductive medium.

Conversion of the superficial PE material to DLC-PE results in a gradient of conversed DLC, and thus reduces the risk of abrasive wear observed with certain DLC coatings on various metallic biomaterials.

Alternatives involving physical alteration of the plastic surface through sandblasting or addition of a thin superficial diffusive material (sticker) did not eliminate the channeling effects.

DNA from faeces was isolated with the QIAamp® DNA Stool Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Ontario, Canada) according to the manufacturer's instructions, with the following two modifications: i) instead of 180 220 mg, from 200 to 500 mg of the superficial faecal material was used per sample, and ii) the ASL buffer was heated to 70°C before being added to the samples.

As most of the glacial deposits are covered by buildings or located in the adjacent waterways that make New York City an archipelago, finding fossils requires diligence at construction sites where, in general, the focus has been on what is revealed in the bedrock rather than the superficial surface materials.