Sentences with phrase «rubber sheet»

However, although the ultrathin films and rubber sheets used in these devices adhere and conform well to the skin, their lack of breathability is deemed unsafe for long - term use: dermatological tests show the fine, stretchable materials prevent sweating and block airflow around the skin, causing irritation and inflammation, which ultimately could lead to lasting physiological and psychological effects.

A popular way of envisaging space - time is as a stretchy rubber sheet that deforms when a mass is placed on it, with the varying curvature analogous to the warping of space - time by gravity.

The group also evaluated the permeability, with water vapor, of the nanomesh conductor — along with those of other substrates like ultrathin plastic foil and a thin rubber sheet — and found that its porous mesh structure exhibited superior gas permeability compared to that of the other materials.

The solar still at Symi is architecturally attractive, with its rows of plastic bays underlain with black rubber sheeting.

Clay to stop water loss in ponds is the old school method, instead of modern rubber sheet like liner material.

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Like a ball bouncing off a rubber sheet, any accelerating mass should send out gravitational waves, ripples that cause space itself to stretch and squeeze.

«The rubber sheet is a picture for such a manifold, so in an abstract way I am indeed using the analogy,» he says.

It has often been described as a rubber sheet, but Einstein's twisted space - time is more intangible than that

The illusion is even better if you have a rubber sheet covering the tabletop to mimic the tactile qualities of skin.

«When a bat flaps its wings, it's like a rubber sheet,» said Hutchinson, who is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois.

An analogy is to imagine bugs crawling on a rubber sheet.

The secret lies in imagining light rays and their attendant electric and magnetic fields as if they were embedded in a rubber sheet.

Gravity distorted the coordinates, just as a grid of straight lines on a rubber sheet would curve if you placed a heavy cannonball on it.

For example: If you have a massive object, it will bend spacetime, like the famous example of the bowling ball suspended on a rubber sheet.

It's an interesting concept because the mask comes with a little tub of the serum that you first pat on your face before applying the rubber sheet (which is separated into two parts so it can better fit different face sizes — genius, but somehow other sheet masks don't understand that).

(walks by and sees his son Fuller drink a can of Coca - Cola as he snatches it away from him) Hey, hey, easy on the fluids, pal, the rubber sheets are packed?.

What Chase did have was Hughes» tightly written script, peppered with sight gags and such a deep arsenal of throwaway lines that new ones emerge with every viewing («Don't forget the rubber sheets and the gerbils.»)

To protect underlying beds, use a shower curtain or rubber sheet.

I had to put a rubber sheet over it before we'd leave!

Aluminum foil and rubber sheeting are materials also used in roofing.

The Wilding sculpture measures 156 inches in length: a thin, oval, rubber sheet, interrupted by a hand cut opening next to which is placed a polished brass vessel.

Well, the alternative is a fancier framed version, where the rubber sheet is framed by aluminum.

The tension field that separates the inside of the torus from the outside holds its shape as a simple two dimensional field of space and time just as the rubber sheet does.

Most of the keyboards that ship with new computers have a rubber sheet that looks a bit like bubble wrap.

i built one some years ago, very simply with a 16» square piece of steel plate, a piece of 1/2 rubber sheet and an old car hub cap.

In order to deal quickly and easily with an unattractive kitchen floor, try using rubber sheets.