Balsa in a sentence

Police later arrested Gerald Balsa, 39, who reportedly got so angry for being served a boiled pork soup that was not to his liking.

Usino Bundi was the last district to join the project, and last Thursday, officers from the Madang Balsa Project visited all 34 wards in the district.

Supplies of balsa wood, a major component of wind turbine blades, became scarce this spring because about 95% of it comes from Ecuador, which was overwhelmed by the pandemic.

Analyses the carvings from the “Balsa Pyramid” and also the designs on the so-called Denver Cup.

Installations such as Balsa Snake Raft to Escape the Flood incorporate found objects such as sticks and ropes.

When the sister of one of Rio’s victims (Manami Enosawa, doing her best balsa wood impersonation) starts vying for Etsuro’s affections, the film plunges deeper into rote youth-romance territory.

For no reason, I took an airplane ride from Sonoma Skypark in a 1941 tail dragger made of balsa wood covered in a forest green fabric that was the same color but smaller than my car.

Only if the chair is made of balsa wood.

For example, mahogany is a medium-dense hardwood that is excellent for fine furniture crafting, whereas balsa is light, making it useful for model building.

FRP structures can be made stiffer with sandwich panels, where the FRP encloses a lightweight core such as balsa or foam.

Hardwood * Balsa (Ochroma) is technically a hardwood, but is actually softer than most softwoods and very easily shaped.

Hewitt and Howald were the first to come up with a way to lay the fibers into the shape of a fishing rod by wrapping them around a piece of balsa wood.

In many cases, composite hulls are built by sandwiching thin fiber-reinforced skins over a lightweight but reasonably rigid core of foam, balsa wood, impregnated paper honeycomb or other material.

Lighter balsa wood surfboards (first made in the late 1940s and early 1950s) were a significant improvement, not only in portability, but also in increasing maneuverability.

Many species of Malvaceae sensu lato are known for their wood, with that of Ochroma (balsa) being known for its lightness, and that of Tilia (lime, linden, or basswood) as a popular wood for carving.

Most arms are made from some kind of alloy (the cheapest being aluminium), but some manufacturers use balsa wood, while others use carbon fiber or graphite.

Sharp and Bowyer 1971, p. 378. Each bulkhead was a repeat of the spruce design for the fuselage halves; a balsa sheet sandwich between two plywood sheets/skins.

The country's vast resources include large amounts of timber across the country, like eucalyptus and mangroves. citation Pines and cedars are planted in the region of La Sierra and walnuts, rosemary, and balsa wood in the Guayas River Basin.

The Q-ships' cargoes were light wood (balsa or cork) or wooden casks, so that even if torpedoed they would remain afloat, encouraging the U-boat to surface to sink them with a deck gun.

The raft proved to be highly maneuverable, and fish congregated between the nine balsa logs in such numbers that ancient sailors could have possibly relied on fish for hydration in the absence of other sources of fresh water.