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1. Oxygen is present in treed areas because porous wood will hold oxygen
2. - at specified type and density of coarse porous aggregate with possible selection of sand type;
3. Selection of coarse porous aggregate is conducted on the basis of empirical data that link their bulk density with density (ρ ) and strength of concrete c
4. At water drawoff by porous base in the mortars with different C/W, strength of mortars (R ) can be calculated as follows:
5. hand and machine coating, for porous materials etc
6. The evolution of uniform military standards, however, subsequently rendered militias, in the traditional sense, obsolete until the events of 9/11 raised important questions about our nation‘s seemingly impregnable borders that have subsequently lent legitimacy to the efforts of ―Minutemen‖ who routinely patrol our porous Southwestern borders with this one notable exception: most are likely to employ binoculars rather than muskets
7. Then, those desert raids became ever more daring, penetrating deeper with each thrust until the shattered, rather vacant homeland of the Jews, and the porous southwestern borders of the Persians collapsed completely, and the danger to the surrounding lands went unrecognized until almost too late
8. Those who favor a porous border with any adjacent country also favor the loss of American sovereignty, since a country loses its identity when it loses its borders
9. typically begins to expand, and become more porous
10. Oil prices are skyrocketing, threatening the economy; we have borders so porous that this country now has
11. The maritime border between Canada and the United States is porous
12. The magic gasses created from such a spell were enormous and hung like clouds in the sky for days, eventually they sunk downwards into the ground and settled, penetrating the porous rocks solidifying and eventually, in time, crystallizing
13. It is an undrinkable well of red-tainted water that constantly drips from holes within the porous rocks high above the pools
14. His lungs begin to function as his yolk sac is emptied and dries out, and he learns to breathe air that enters the egg through the porous shell
15. We are not a secure nation as long as we have porous borders
16. The Allied supreme command had taken a great risk in manning this porous and thinned out sector by defending it with untried and battle weary troops requiring rest and refitting
17. “Yes, apparently there are large areas of grass on the island, due to the lava being very porous in places
18. So in the wake of the absconding villains the inquiry spread its tentacles to the porous neighbourhoods of Australia’s New South Wales and Victoria with no definite names for faces, but plenty of faces requiring names
19. That porous rock proved quite easy to break and he soon held in one hand a sort of crystal the size of a golf ball
20. The object of hoeing is to keep the soil porous so that light, air and water may
21. What makes live rock so good? The porous nature of live rock means that it comes packed with
22. porous material inside the live rock helps rid your aquarium of nitrates
23. If we think about the bio-media we have in a FW filter, it is typically highly porous (bio-balls,
24. A highly porous material capable of harboring
25. Live rock is usually extremely porous and is used as the primary biological filter in saltwater
26. It is usually the better choice because it is more porous than the
27. It is usually not as porous as the other types of rock and might not be the best
28. Aqua Cultured - This is porous rock that has been placed in the ocean artificially and left for
29. in saltwater tanks you can try adding more high quality live rock (the more porous, the
30. Generally speaking, the more porous and lighter the carbon the more
31. The lighter the AC, the more porous and the better it will be
32. as the name implies, these are small plastic, porous balls that are usually placed in
33. porous and provides a great location for colonizing bacteria that aid in the aquarium
34. millions of mostly black porous rocks everywhere attesting to that
35. All the while, I skated effortlessly through the porous Alfond defense and stickhandled deftly, frustrating Alfond even more
36. Natural bristle is extremely porous by nature and thus it soaks up a great amount of water that it touches
37. Whoever had been put in charge of the wall repairs had even gone so far as to add new cut stone blocks in places where the rock had become overly porous
38. After this is dry, the gum is washed off as far as may be with water; some of the gum is left in the porous stone, but it is rejected where the greasy lines and tones of the drawing come
39. Nearly a year ago, my second day in this city, I’d gotten lost in these forgotten, trash-strewn blocks filled with dilapidated industrial warehouses and docks, crumbling smokestacks, abandoned cars, and thick, porous husks scattered all over the place, oblivious to the amorphous danger lurking in the shadows
40. It came to a boil faster than expected; he found himself rushing around in stocking feet, looking for something to strain it through, a colander or sieve or any other porous vessel his wife might not have thought to deprive him of
41. His heart, he felt, was a porous vessel
42. Yet the boundaries were still so porous that a mere backward glimpse at him dwindling on a streetcorner could leave her reeling
43. The freak April snow was now heavy enough to hang a porous screen a few yards to starboard, and had driven off anyone else who might have been out here
44. Our shoreline was extremely porous, and Joe saw the holes
45. Instead of the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as a petits materiaux—small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing
46. The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark
47. They stood in the blazing sunlight for a long while, looking at the bright faces of their old-fashioned railroad watches, while the shadows tilted beneath them, swaying, and the perspiration ran out under their porous summer hats
48. The light, porous tufa gravel that covered the road squeaked loudly beneath flying unshod hooves
49. Outer garments should be windproof, with a close enough weave to prevent snow compacting, but porous enough to allow water vapour to escape—NOT waterproof, which could create condensation inside
50. Avoid placing wet or porous rocks and stones near fires, especially rocks which have been submerged in water—they may explode when heated
