Sentence examples for unstable materials from inspiring English sources

Even with projected frequent shuttle flights, the expense of space disposal would probably have been too high for any but the most dangerous of wastes, which would have had to be separated from other less unstable materials.

In 1992, he was credited with saving crew, ship and the adjoining port area in the Port of Charleston by averting the explosion of highly unstable materials spilled in a storm.

"Reynolds was a very good painter, but he often used unstable materials and added things to his paints which made them very vulnerable to cleaning," says Roy. "We have an important Reynolds portrait of Lord Heathfield, which is one of the pictures in the gallery's founding collection.

Some geologists favour a definition of graywacke that permits no more than 75 percent free quartz in the rock, and they thus would class as subgraywackes those rocks with (1) over 25 percent unstable materials (i.e., feldspar and rock fragments), (2) more rock fragments than feldspar, and (3) more voids (open pore spaces) or mineral (often carbonate) cement than clay or mud matrix.

The method involves gentle handling of unstable materials.

Short-path evaporation is a safe method suitable for separation and purification of thermally unstable materials.

These were then filled in with unstable material which can eventually leak away leaving a cavity.

The bits of newspaper symbolised the conflicting fictions upon which nations are built and the encaustic, an unstable material, was perceived by critics to be a metaphor for the unstable nature of identity.

As Mostow proved in "Breakdown" and "U-571," he can churn out excitement at a steady pace; whether he can handle dread — altogether a more unstable material — is another matter.

The pits do not have rims like craters produced by impacts, leading the scientists to speculate that they were etched by some unstable material that evaporated quickly when exposed at the surface.

In the perforated unit cell, all subdomains of the unit cell that are not strictly elliptic are excluded, which enables the decomposition of its stable and unstable material.