The border between the two countries is impremeable. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
impermeable stone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Many geothermal reservoirs have heat, but the rock is impermeable, which is the problem at the Raft River well known as RRG-9. From Wordnik.com. [Reliable Plant Magazine] Reference
The old operation of "perineal section" for so-called impermeable stricture is very different, being difficult, dangerous, and uncertain in its results. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
In effect, social scientists treat the life sciences as enclosed within a kind of impermeable wall. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference
U.S. borders are not and never will be impermeable. From Wordnik.com. [America Remains at Risk—From Itself] Reference
One foot at a time, Asperveden shook water from his impermeable chitin. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Soil that is high in sodium and clay will often be impermeable to water. From Wordnik.com. [As season changes, gardeners get ready] Reference
One of those old wooden lab tables, with the black, chemically impermeable top. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
There's an acorn in the plastic ashtray with an impermeable crescent of bubble gum. From Wordnik.com. [Standoff] Reference
Long before pottery, small ceramic sculptures were fired into impermeable hardness. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
The interior of the wall is plastered with gypsum in order to render it impermeable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
Then put the waste in impermeable, nondescript containers, such as empty cans or sealable bags. From Wordnik.com. [How to safely—and eco-consciously—dispose of unused meds] Reference
Most metals are strong and flexible, can be formed into any shape, are impermeable and durable. From Wordnik.com. [4. Roof structure] Reference
If plaster of Paris is used (and it is often the best "splint") this is impermeable to the rays. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
I believed in hard and impermeable just like I believed in birth control and garage door openers. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker: 7 Rings Day 2: Featuring Poet Nicole Walker] Reference
The drains must not be impermeable or closed, and sewers are not to be used for drainage purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
The relative position of the impermeable underlying strata varies in its distance from the surface soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Its roots are long and vertical and their development stops in contact with an impermeable layer of soil. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
In a recent test-tube study, researchers showed that RNA interference could make cells impermeable to HIV. From Wordnik.com. [Unraveling The Secrets Of The Cell] Reference
After the fabric is saturated with water, the structure is inflated, and dries to form an impermeable shell. From Wordnik.com. [These Four Walls Won’t Fall Down] Reference
They consist simply of wooden uprights to which are affixed cross-pieces that support an impermeable canvas. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
Asphalt is noiseless and impermeable (thereby serving the "double sanitary purpose" mentioned by Dr. Price). From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Plastic sheeting hung in several places, and he could hear the dripping of water against the impermeable Mylar. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
~ -- Bituminous coatings of one composition or another are among the most commonly used of impermeable coatings. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Yes, it was found that one of the levees was stuffed with shredded newspapers instead of the impermeable rubber. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008] Reference
It is the most effective hazardous material suit, as impermeable as any kind of response suit that you could have. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2006] Reference
This softens the rubber and becomes, after volatilization of the Ammonia, hard and impermeable to gases and fluids. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Animals have the power to form quickly a natural scab over a wound, which is impermeable and at the same time elastic. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
If this is isolating and impermeable, there will be no interest in raising the electrodes sensibly above its lower edge. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
This is useful where a soakaway pit or infiltration trench cannot be used because of impermeable soils (e.g. clay or rock). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
Her ship would have surrounded itself with an impermeable shell, one that induced a severe allergic reaction in other ships. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Often this requires jettisoning the impermeable suits and headgear that scare off the very people the scientists need to study. From Wordnik.com. [Commandos Of Viral Combat] Reference
In proportion as the air becomes hot by compression, so it cools by expansion, if the vessel containing it is impermeable to heat. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
In the interior of the cylinder there is a metallic cup which is connected with the central reservoir by an impermeable membrane, I. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
Disney managers need to borrow a phrase from investment banking and erect an impermeable "Chinese Wall" around all their news holdings. From Wordnik.com. [A Call For Chinese Walls] Reference
Even the "" glass ceiling '' that keeps many women outside the executive suites is not quite as impermeable as studies depict (page 24). From Wordnik.com. [What About Women?] Reference
All these operations are performed in the interior of the pocket, N, through the impermeable, triple fabric of which no light can enter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
Also, its action may be regulated by altering the strength of the solution, and the liability to form impermeable albuminates thus diminished. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
CLARK ERVIN, THE ASPEN INSTITUTE: 9/11 proves that we are no longer impermeable to the kinds of security threats that other countries around the world sadly have had to deal with. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009] Reference
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