Sentence examples for thin hard from inspiring English sources

An analytical expression has been derived in order to correlate the critical load of scratch adhesion Lc with hardness and film thickness for thin hard films on softer substrates, based on the model proposed by Burnett, Rickerby and co-workers (B R model) for interpretation of composite hardness measurements.

Flysch, sequence of shales rhythmically interbedded with thin, hard, graywacke-like sandstones.

The 2-centimetre seed, or nut, is conical with a black, thin, hard shell.

The body is quite unlike that used earlier in the dynasty, being thin, hard, crisp, and resonant.

If you are serving them in the shell, just lift off the thin, hard covering, the operculum, that covers the meat at the opening.

A small quantity of stoneware is covered with a thin, hard, yellowish green glaze applied in liquid form to the vessel.

I'll certainly take that as a compliment!' She is tiny and androgynous, with a thin, hard body, fierce eyebrows, muscled arms, calloused hands.

The frequency of the quarter wavelength resonance in the sound absorption spectra due to a thin hard-backed rigid-porous layer can be influenced by the design of its microstructure as well as its thickness.

The low frequency/high flow resistivity approximation is used, together with the assumption of layer thickness small compared with internal wavelength, to derive another simple two-parameter model for grounds that behave acoustically as thin hard-backed porous layers.

The wheat ripened early but was thin and hard to thresh.

After the painting is finished and dried, the whole surface is covered with thin, liquid hard ground.