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But I'm not sure I would have noticed that if I hadn't been so in the thick of this research project of mine.
It has a very large, thick atmosphere, and in fact, its surface environment was believed to be more like the environment we have here on the Earth, or at least had in the past, than any other body in the solar system.
But these haze particles, it was surmised, before we got there with Cassini, over billions and billions of years, gently drifted down to the surface and coated the surface in a thick organic sludge.
As I said, it has a thick, extensive atmosphere.
With one look at Benandonner’s thick neck and crushing fists, Finn turned and ran.
And I had snuck in this article on these things called carbon nanotubes, and that's just a long, thin pipe of carbon that's an atom thick, and one 50,000th the diameter of your hair.
This piece of leather is a mere seven tissue layers thick, and as you can see, it is nearly transparent.
And this leather is 21 layers thick and quite opaque.
At the center, where the beams intersect, the atoms move sluggishly, as if trapped in a thick liquid — an effect the researchers who invented it described as “optical molasses.”
And you can make a very thick, sticky porridge out of it, which you can use to bind together the charcoal briquettes.
The grizzly would soon be wiped out from 95 percent of its original territory, and whereas once there had been 30 million bison moving across the plains, and you would have these stories of trains having to stop for four or five hours so that these thick, living rivers of the animals could pour over the tracks, now, by 1902, there were maybe less than 100 left in the wild.
And as soon as I did that, as soon as I decided to honor the community I came from and tell their story, that the songs started to come thick and fast.
By itself, it's a magnificent piece of architecture, but the structure is only a shell until it disappears under a thick blanket of messages.
Advised by the wise centaur Chiron, Hercules trapped it by chasing it into thick snow.
In most of my work, what I do is I seal the edges of a book with a thick varnish so it's creating sort of a skin on the outside of the book so it becomes a solid material, but then the pages inside are still loose, and then I carve into the surface of the book, and I'm not moving or adding anything.
After extensive research and testing of different materials like rubber, which I realized was too thick to be worn snugly on the bottom of the foot, I decided to print a film sensor with electrically conductive pressure-sensitive ink particles.
Almost everyone who hasn't heard this before is surprised when they hear that if you take a 0.1 millimeter thick sheet of paper, the size we normally use, and, if it were big enough, fold it 50 times, its thickness would extend almost the distance from the Earth to the sun.
Water hyacinth coat the waterways of Shanghai in a thick green carpet.
This dead zone is on the order of tens of microns thick, so that's two or three diameters of a red blood cell, right at the window interface that remains a liquid, and we pull this object up, and as we talked about in a Science paper, as we change the oxygen content, we can change the dead zone thickness.
So I think this is where it starts to get into the thick weeds.
Even in the driest, highest places on Earth, the air is sweet and thick with oxygen exhaled from thousands of miles away by our rainforests.
It was a thick forest.
I remember the thick, straight hair, and how it would come around me like a curtain when she bent to pick me up; her soft, southern Thai accent; the way I would cling to her, even if she just wanted to go to the bathroom or get something to eat.
And my three-and-a-half-year-old niece Samantha was in the thick of it.
Alec Gallup, the former chairman of the Gallup Organization, once handed me a very thick book.
There is a thick sheet of foggy, bulletproof glass and on the other side was Daniel McGowan.
They showed their human qualities and convinced the mothers that they would stick with them through thick and thin, even though they wouldn't be soft with them.
Why is it that killer whales have returned to researchers lost in thick fog and led them miles until the fog parted and the researchers' home was right there on the shoreline?
Just as a cork screw on a wine bottle converts winding motion into forward motion, these tiny creatures spin their helical tails to push themselves forward in a world where water feels as thick as cork.
In Alaska, swarms of mosquitos can get so thick that they actually asphyxiate caribou.
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