The tissues were then pulverized using a frozen steel block and hammer.
The gauge consists of a steel block with a series of very small parallel grooves machined into it.
Once you tear into a steel block to check its insMes, you've lost your sample.
A single huge tower thrust up from the surface, a solid steel block with no obvious openings or markings.
They could get through anything short of a two-inch steel block.
Instead of painted walls, the architects used steel, brick, composite blocks and finished plywood.
Ordinarily there'd be another half and the cavity would be sealed inside a steel block.
Thick as steel blocks, they dropped one by one on the deck, each with a ringing jar.
On top of that will come the steel block.
Later this year, a Colombian sculptor is to fashion this steel block into a monument to peace.