Sentences with phrase «absorbing materials like»

Likewise, if it's in a room with a lot of sound - absorbing materials like carpet and large, overstuffed chairs, it might pump up the bass to keep the low - frequency pulses in balance with the rest of the sound.

Urban heat islands are the result of replacing the natural landscape, such as vegetation and waterways, with heat - absorbing materials like concrete or asphalt.

Not exact matches

Thinx look and feel just like a regular pair of underwear — they come in six styles and three colors — but the anti-microbial, moisture - wicking material can absorb up to two tampons» worth of blood.

Most bleeding sites can be stopped by direct pressure, meaning by taking some absorbing material, like gauze, and holding it directly over, with some pressure, this area.

The water friendly design is perfect for toddlers who like to run in and out of the water as the material does not absorb moisture.

The flushable insert is made of a material from wood pulp that is very absorb able and breaks up in the toilet like toilet paper.

Long sleeved style has a soft front panel that absorbs liquid and sleeves that are made from a soft nylon - like material.

To begin, the chair's cover is a mesh material that not only does not resist food but actually absorbs it (much like a sponge).

However, the materials do absorb movement, so your children can have uninterrupted sleep, even if they do like to occasionally share their beds with siblings.

Some of the strollers on our list are more budget - friendly than anything else, some offer exciting features like state - of - the - art shock absorbers, sustainable materials, and lengthy warranties.

Otherwise, the laser material behaves just like any other material — it absorbs part of the incident light.

Its two faces differ strikingly in color, likely the result of thermal segregation: Over time, darker materials (like carbon) have absorbed more heat from the sun, warming up and sending lighter, more volatile materials (like ice) to the colder hemisphere.

In Hanoi, Vietnam, he found homes built with masonry and other materials that don't absorb water like drywall and siding, which often require flooded residences to be rebuilt.

Pendry knew he was in uncharted territory, but at first he didn't comprehend the magnitude of his idea: By combining the electrical properties of Marconi's radar - absorbing material with the magnetism imparted by the copper wire, he had unknowingly figured out how to manipulate electromagnetic radiation, including visible light — making wild applications like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak suddenly within reach.

Problems: sometimes the neutron goes out and hits a nucleus of the blanket and instead of just ringing it like a bell, it goes and one of the steel atoms absorb [s] the neutron; now this makes it different material, [it] makes it brittle, it makes it radioactive.

Other things to like: the wicking band to absorb copious forehead sweat, breathable material and air holes to keep my head cool, a drawstring to adjust the size, and total crushability.

The textiles they use feels like the softest cotton silk blend besides that the material is specially treated to block and absorb UV rays.

«Asking high school students to absorb and understand classroom material at 7 a.m. is like asking adults to function in a work environment at 3 a.m.,» Mark Muhowald of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, told NEA Today Online.

In non-fiction it focuses on things like organization, clarity, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and other factors that affect a reader's ability to understand and absorb the material.

They're like thin layers of rubber but in reality that material is extremely hard to penetrate so if your device ever slides on to the floor, everything is absorbed by the rubber.

Wrapping food pieces inside other items like lettuce, other green leaves, or in a safe material like a coffee filter then tying with twine, rope, or tape can aid in the act of discovery and present time - absorbing challenges for your bird to find the food reward hidden inside.

Printer Matthew Squires explained that the material does not absorb ink like uncoated paper, so the ink sits on the surface mimicking the slight elevation of tape.

Some of his best - known works include a series of installations that destabilize the solidity of gallery walls, such that they appear to be dripping, folding, oozing, or absorbing furniture; also figuring among his oeuvre are pixelated clouds based on photographs and rendered with hand - colored spheres, and sculptures made from granulated materials like crushed glass.

Discarded at the Merkato, the lead - ridden, often toxic materials attest to the pace of disposal as well as the danger posed to countries like Ethiopia, which often absorb the refuse of the first world.

Discarded at the Addis Ababa open - air market, the Merkato, the lead - ridden, often toxic materials attest to the pace of disposal as well as the danger posed to countries like Ethiopia, which often absorb the refuse of the first world.

Questions of classical sculpture like weight and equilibrium are rewritten in his work, summoning up material and technical associations while adding other more recent ideas on transparency, flexibility and spatial relations, together with a redefinition of the viewer, absorbed by the new situations in which space and time are coordinated and articulated.

«Heat islands exist because the land surface in towns and cities, which is made of materials like tarmac and stone, absorbs and stores heat.

Like conventional photovoltaics, the artificial leaf used common semiconducting materials (in this case, amorphous silicon) to absorb sunlight and emit electrons.

The heated gas molecules would bump into other air molecules and warm them, and like any material above absolute zero, the Atmosphere would emit radiation at a variety of long - wave wavelengths in random directions, some of which would be absorbed by the surface of the planet, warming it further.

Can we design building materials that, like shells, absorb CO2 from their surroundings and when saturated, simply continue to act as building materials, holding on to the carbon long term?

Thus a material (like the atmosphere) that absorbs some wavelength of light (say 10 um) poorly will also emit that wavelength poorly.

• Sodium bentonite: Some waterproofing contractors don't like this method of adding a clay material to the dirt around the home to fill cracks and absorb water.