Impermeable

In practical terms, a basin is a hole several hectares in size covered with strong and impermeable tarpaulin sheets.

Radiation, unlike many cancer treatments, can cross that impermeable blood-brain barrier to treat recurring cancer and cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

But the water board also said no surface water from an increase in the size of the roof or impermeable surfaces should be allowed to drain into the public system.

If you can commit to valuing impermeable things that barely exist and dedicating your whole heart to it?

The study noted they had a much wider spread of datapoinst on cardboard than they did on impermeable plastic or metals, so they're less willing to predict times, but they did have one fractional sample live 22 hours and another sample live 40.

They are made of clear impermeable plastic and cover the entire head down to the neck.

About 25 minutes after Rogers is placed in the cell, he is still wearing the impermeable device on his mouth as he begins retching.

The bubble at their Maynooth base is not as impermeable as some would have you believe, but Ireland are confident that their own high standards will be delivered again.

With the Victorian-era Whaley Bridge dam, clay was used to build an impermeable barrier with earth banks used to hold it in place.

The divisions ignored the aspirations of the real owners of the land and created impermeable borders in both territories that people are still suffering the consequences of until now.

An aquitard can sometimes, if completely impermeable, be called an aquiclude or aquifuge.

Artificial geysers In a number of places where there is geothermal activity, wells have been drilled and fitted with impermeable casements that allow them to erupt like geysers.

Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is a carboxylic acid Cell membranes are generally impermeable to charged or large, polar molecules because of the lipophilic fatty acyl chains comprising their interior.

As the water saturates the wood, it swells, the gaps close and become impermeable. citation The rooftop water towers store convert of water until it is needed in the building below.

For example, roads which increase impermeable surfaces lead to streaming and ground loss.

Furthermore, the epithelium of the distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts is impermeable to water in the absence of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) in the blood.

Glucose, sodium ions, and chloride ions are just a few examples of molecules and ions that must efficiently cross the plasma membrane but to which the lipid bilayer of the membrane is virtually impermeable.

If the impermeable rocks stop the vertical flow, the west to east gradient of the topography directs it to flow towards the Atlantic Ocean.

Related terms include aquitard, which is a bed of low permeability along an aquifer, citation and aquiclude (or aquifuge), which is a solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer.

Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of polyester or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance.