"layer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A further consequence of continued cultivation and traffic is the development of compacted, impermeable layers or pans within the profile.
- Due to the shape of the minerals, the water travels in between the compacted layer, thus "swelling" the clay-bed into mound-like features.
- Snow fell, hardened like glass, and then fell again, until the compacted layers encased the land in armor.
- On initial filling though, it was found that the leakage between the compacted layers within the dam body was unusually high.
- Should Mrs. Spencer fill the old cesspit with compacted layers of dirt and gravel, or should she just go ahead and plant a larger tree, perhaps a fir?
- Some cover crops are good at breaking up compacted layers of soil.
- The cycle track was first formed with a 100mm thick compacted layer of old railway ballast, surfaced with a 25mm thick layer of fine crushed whin stone.
- It has been attributed to settling of the stratified and poorly compacted layers of dirt-covered trash now filling the old quarry.
- In many neurons, a myelin sheath, rich in cholesterol, since it is derived from compacted layers of Schwann cell membrane, provides insulation for more efficient conduction of impulses.
- Once there were piles, but they had slipped as piles do, forming this dense compacted layer that was now turning into something like peat.
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