Sentences with phrase «such as grains of sand»

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Along with other rail companies, it's shipping more crude, frac sand and grain and it's doing more intermodal business — taking goods to another mode of transportation, such as ship or plane — than it has in the past.

We live within a universe of such potential smallness in size that it is as a grain of sand upon the beaches!

We cling to a fragment of a grain of sand until such time as the chill of death shall return us to primal matter.

At those outcrops, the researchers calculated the percent of mud rock in the overall deposit by measuring the thickness of the muddy layers compared with the thickness of layers containing larger grains such as sand.

There is a very peculiar dynamics of granular matter, such as dry sand or grains of wheat.

For the particles to have an effect, the impact must be extremely intense, such as that caused by a firearm or micrometeorites (objects the size of grains of sand capable of hitting satellites at the speed of ten kilometres per second).

Another way of producing a solid, however, is by jamming particles (such as atoms, molecules, or even grains of sand) together, physically constraining their movements under high pressure.

common sedimentary rock formed by grains of sand compacted or cemented with material such as clay.