Sentences with phrase «dense as a rock»

Maybe this is because he was built like a rock, although sometimes we are tempted to think it is because he was as dense as a rock.

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Two years later they were ready to expand their processing line and include a second Helius sorting machine as well as an Ixus Bulk 800 sorter to help improve on their dense foreign materials such as rocks, glass and metal, guaranteeing superior food safety and quality.

Researchers from the College of New Jersey and the University of Rochester now know what caused that bend — a dense, underground block of rigid, volcanic rock forced the chain to shift eastward as it was forming millions of years ago.

Mars has been viewed as an almost entirely basaltic planet, with igneous rocks that are dark and relatively dense, similar to those forming the Earth's oceanic crust, Wiens noted.

Rock to Liquid Jet aircraft today typically burn kerosene, an energy - dense hydrocarbon fuel that delivers as much as 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound), allowing for long - distance travel.

But dense rocks, such as granite, have tiny air pockets inside them, too.

Because salt is much less dense than rock, the sound waves surveyors use to scour the depths race through it at nearly three miles per second, twice as fast as it traverses the surrounding rock and sand.

As that ocean cooled, its most buoyant components floated to the top, forming an outer shell over denser layers of rock.

Together, these lower the risk of overpressurization and eruptions become less frequent as chambers head into a storage phase, wherein the buoyancy of the magma (compared with denser rock) becomes the dominant source of pressure on the surrounding crust.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

It's a typically unforgiving, narrow and intimidating Rally Spain stage, lined with Armco near the bottom and then saw - toothed rocks and dense foliage as it begins to climb.

Charge up your camera as this hike offers everything from mountainous peaks and sheer rock faces to pristine lakes, cascading waterfalls and dense, luxuriant forest.

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The writer talks of our dense green jungle, snow white gardens, and black rock beaches as forming a cinematic backdrop for the resort and we couldn't agree more.

Perhaps the endless virgin beach is not for you and you may want to see it in a small lagoon with azure waters hiding in the rocks or a tiny island, with white, fine as flour sand and dense jungle in the center of the island.

Two jagged black peaks, set against a deep midnight blue in Nocturne (2016) emerge as dense, structural presences — whether buildings or rock — against a vast expanse of open sky.

This exhibition will focus on New York - based artist Ned Smyth's large - scale sculptural works that appear as large rock formations milled in dense foam, hard - coated in resin, and painted in a stone - colored palette.

As to sea level rise due to displacement of mantle, because rock is denser than ice, more water must be drawn from the sea to displace the mantle than the volume of the mantle displaced.

The extant can be wildly variable, as wildly as the «bed rock» varies - from chalk to granite, pumice and hardened lava melt to dense vitrified mantle.