Sentence examples for surface of a rock from inspiring English sources

These include cameras and an infrared laser system that can excite the surface of a rock to betray some of its chemistry.

Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has used its brush tool for the first time to sweep dust off the surface of a rock.

It allows a fast and precise measurement of the permeability at the surface of a rock sample in comparison to other permeability-measuring techniques.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of rock/cutter interface geometry on the cutting action of a circular sharp Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter tracing a groove on the surface of a rock sample.

A 10% smectite content can raise the surface conductivity of a rock matrix to 10−1 S m−1 (Revil et al. 2002; Komori et al. 2013) which easily accounts for low resistivity values in the Fang geothermal area.

K. petricola A95 (= CBS 123872) was isolated from the surface of a marble rock near the Philopappos monument on Musaios Hill, Athens Greecee) (Gorbushina et al. [2008]).

A Japanese capsule is due to return to Earth in a few weeks with a sample picked up off the surface of a space rock; the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will flyby an asteroid later this year; and a Nasa spacecraft will go into orbit around one of these bodies in 2011.

Place the nut or nuts onto a the surface of a flattish rock.