Sentence examples for to impermeable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Impossible to permeate
The study concludes that 44% of the damage was to impermeable pavements and 22% to permeable pavements.
Four representative heterogeneous fractured seal types are characterized to demonstrate seal permeability ranging from highly permeable to impermeable.
Table 3 Examples of water-storing capacity classifications Water-storing capacity classes AWC of topsoil AWC of subsoil Depth to impermeable layer I. Very high Very high Deep High Very high Deep II.
A comparison of outcrop and core samples shows that measurements of outcrop samples yield slightly higher porosities and permeabilities, however, these sandstones have permeabilities that are low to impermeable (Campbell et al. 2016a).
But since the aquifer's composition varies (from porous to impermeable) in all directions and water flow through the aquifer is in terms of hundreds of feet per year, Goeke said a leak would probably be confined to a half-mile radius from the pipe.
This comparative phylogeographic approach strengthens the hypothesis that common events or dispersal barriers [41], such as sea-level changes [26], gorges cutting through to impermeable limestone layers [20], or hypersaline groundwater [27], has structured and isolated many of the populations into distinct geographic communities.
It is made of tightly packed dead cells evolved to fulfill two main requirements: to be impermeable to water and elastic enough to withstand mechanical stress.
The DNA molecules are assumed to be impermeable to solution ions, and the charge is assumed to be uniformly distributed within the DNA segments.
The Vatican used to be impermeable to horrific stories of child sexual abuse by priests – and complicit in attempts to whitewash the perpetrators' reputations.
It is a very thin membrane composed of fibrous tissue covered on its outer surface by a sheet of flat cells thought to be impermeable to fluid.
It is composed of fibrous tissue and, like the pia mater, is covered by flat cells also thought to be impermeable to fluid.
