Sentence examples for thin layer of air from inspiring English sources

With the water repelled, a thin layer of air is trapped along the abdomen.

Individual fire ants, when dropped in water, struggle and flail, but a close inspection reveals a thin layer of air clinging to the swimmer.

However, Couder says that when a droplet falls onto the surface, it traps a thin layer of air beneath it and this stops it coalescing immediately.

Wetting of the body during submersion is prevented by a thin layer of air trapped by the fine, dense, water-repellent (hydrofuge) pile that covers the insect.

The Science News breaks it down, reporting that "in drag crisis, the thin layer of air surrounding the ball flips between turbulent and smooth flow, abruptly changing the drag forces on the ball.

The entire outer layer of the device consists of hundreds of these cells (see photo)—which means, intriguingly, that its true "outer edge" is actually a thin layer of air.

The object being printed doesn't stick to the printing surface because it's never actually touching – the surface is permeable to both the digital light and oxygen, which is pumped through the surface to always maintain a ultra-thin layer of air between the printing surface and object being printed.

The object being printed doesn't stick to the printing surface because it's never actually touching – the surface is permeable to both the digital light and oxygen, which is pumped through the surface to always maintain a ultra-thin layer of air between the printing surface and object being printed.

Soon, the weather licked at us and the pilot was forced to circle down a thousand feet into a thin layer of clear air above an exuberant stream.

This will leave a thin layer of the air freshener in the ashtray.

An atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington has now reported a different inversion-related phenomenon, one that may best be described as a clean air sandwich -- a thin layer of stable, clean air trapped between two polluted ones.