Sentence examples for thin foil from inspiring English sources

The metal is prepared as a thin foil and then powdered.

Jewellers have long used a thin foil of copper-zinc alloy as backing for paste jewels and inferior gemstones.

It does not actually use holograms, but projects high-definition video onto nearly transparent screens made of very thin foil, in a modern updating of the old "Pepper's ghost" stage illusion.

I paid him to do a report, and he said, 'It's not possible.' " Dr. Tsou had considered using many thin foil layers or a polymer foam to catch the particles, but in space, radiation and temperature extremes quickly degrade foams.

But when he and his assistants fired tiny positively charged projectiles, called alpha particles, at a thin foil of gold, they were surprised that a tiny percentage of them came bouncing back.

When the contraction mismatch is large, sealing may be accomplished by using thin metal wire or a thin glass coating, by employing a compression seal (in which a glass of lower expansion properties is softened inside a higher-expansion metal shell), or by sealing the metal in the form of a thin foil with feathered edges (the Housekeeper seal).

It was found that the effect of beam diameter is significant in the ultra-thin foil welding, and a smaller diameter is highly preferred.

The thin-foil geometry used for in-situ irradiation is believed to cause the cavities to shrink.

This observation provides important information for actuator applications that utilize thin-foil ferromagnetic shape memory alloys.

We have built a prototype of thin-foil substrates for the future mission with a large X-ray telescope.

This was achieved experimentally using Particle Image Velocimetry, and a combined infrared and heated-thin-foil technique developed for the accurate measurement of local heat transfer coefficients.