| Patching cements look darker than the color of the cement because the polymer bonding agents in them make the concrete denser. |
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| At the base of the stalk is the holdfast, which cements the alga to the rock and prevents it from being washed away. |
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| In reality, such identity typically reflects the control mechanism that cements the corporate body into a virtual monolith. |
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| My concern is that in the to and fro of debate, the language cements what then become accepted norms. |
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| Intervention in domestic politics often cements dictators in place by uniting the people against what they see as foreign aggression. |
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| Polygonal septarian cracks are filled with sparry calcite cements or micrite matrix. |
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| A comparison between all the techniques used to analyse calcite cements reveals subtle differences between injected and depositional sandstones. |
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| It is well cemented with early iron oxide, quartz overgrowth and clay cements with some dolomite blocking pore throats. |
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| When mixed with fine aggregate used in concrete, these cements reportedly achieve strengths up to 14,000 psi. |
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| Overlay cements are sticky and require experience in terms of troweling a finish. |
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| Rubber cements or solvent cements are adhesives that contain organic solvents rather than water. |
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| The unit contains abundant evidence of subaerial exposure, including caliche crusts, desiccation cracks and vadose cements. |
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| It thus cements their central production and distribution structures, which is entirely in the industry's interests. |
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| The little oyster then turns on its left side, cements itself to the object, and remains there immobile for the rest of its life. |
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| Historically used as an additive in selected products such as plastics, paints, cements, and sealants. |
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| Portland and masonry cement are hydraulic cements that can set and harden under water. |
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| Like other portland cements, it is not resistant to acids and other highly corrosive substances. |
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| Citizenship enhances civic participation and so contributes to the added value newcomers bring, which in turn cements social cohesion. |
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| This is the context that cements the whole concept and gives it credibility and authenticity. |
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| The Treaty cements the European Parliament's role, affording it new privileges over legislation, the budget and international agreements. |
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| On the French market, Holcim is active in cements, asphalt binders, aggregates, ready-mix concrete and related services. |
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| Nevertheless, Henry knew research was expected of him, and he began investigating the chemical reactions involved in the setting of hydraulic cements. |
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| Contact adhesives or cements are usually based on solvent solutions of neoprene. |
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| It builds that mutual recognition of their need for one another that cements the diverse parts of the Commonwealth together. |
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| Calcium aluminate cements can be easily modified with chemical accelerators such as lithium carbonate to get rapid set compositions. |
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| When falling into water this ash instantly cements as sodium carbonate and, in this alkaline environment, bone apatite and calcium carbonate fossils are relatively insoluble. |
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| For temporary cementing of temporaries on Z-Look3 Implants Z-Systems recommends cements on zinc oxide eugenol basis. |
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| If Romney cements the Republican nomination, the spokesman added, Republicans of all persuasions will rally round him in Arizona. |
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| Because of their hydrating properties, constructional cements, which will even set and harden under water, are often called hydraulic cements. |
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| Laila Raiki of the Canadian IRC thinks that the use of such supplementary cements has yet to be fully exploited. |
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| The plant, which will initially produce 100,000 cars a year beginning in 2006, cements Guangdong's favoured-location status with Japanese carmakers. |
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| Contact cements are used extensively in the assembly of automotive parts, furniture, leather goods, and decorative laminates. |
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| Its dark hue prohibits it from being used for white cements for whose manufacture other fundents must be used. |
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| What has changed is that the technologies and the cements and the materials used have improved greatly. |
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| Not only were many thousands of miners and millers employed, but as late as 1980 some 6000 South African workers were employed in making asbestos products, mainly cements. |
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| Also, please note my tweed coat with leather elbow patches, which cements my authenticity and invites you to share with me your innermost secrets. |
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| He has only five lines, but the last cements his reputation as a seasoned lady-killer. |
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| Self-setting cements are not impervious to water and hence should be protected by a flexible weatherproof coating for all external applications. |
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| The deal cements the Canadian bank's presence in America's north-east. The carousel of stock exchange deals continued to whirl. |
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| But in fact it cements the legal basis for a constitutionalized parallel system of Indian governments across the country. |
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| Some mycorrhizae produce a sticky substance that cements small soil particles together into stable aggregates. |
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| Portland cement was developed from natural cements made in Britain beginning in the middle of the 18th century. |
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| The French company Vicat still currently produce natural cements and lime mortars. |
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| Additives can be included to obtain composite cements. |
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| From the studies I have been looking at, even with the good cements, it's quite difficult to get a perfect seal from the well casing to the formation. |
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| We must succeed in making an exception of those states which, for the sake of short-term gains, permit or even induce production which is damaging to the environment and cements social grievances. |
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| Most of the slags produced by the iron and steel industry throughout Europe will be registered as UVCB substances and are used in applications such as the production of cements and concrete products. |
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| With their specific properties, the aluminous cements and derived products offered by Kerneos achieve exceptional performance levels which are often indispensible to mining operations. |
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| Everything they do, on-screen and off, cements their reputations as likable everymen, latter-day Jimmy Stewarts. |
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| The cements binding these grains together are typically calcite, clays, and silica. |
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| Even after more than 2,000 years some Roman structures still stand, due in part to sophisticated methods of making cements and concrete. |
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| This was a common practice for manufacturers of both Artificial and Portland cements when only hard limestones were available. |
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| It cements his reputation as the most financially canny film-maker alive. |
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| This then cements the advantage of the top few, which can distinguish themselves by monopolising research, attracting even more top professors and running an ever-tougher admissions policy for students. |
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| Asphalt cements can also be mixed with light oils to produce emulsions. |
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| If he continues on this path and cements a reputation as a dithering vacillator, the acclamation will be replaced by brickbats within four years. |
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| Many voters credit them for the country's economic recovery. The election cements their place at the forefront of the country's politics for the foreseeable future. |
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| Perlite is used in oilwell cements to reduce the cement density. |
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| That those three were, like The Imitation Game, of British pedigree, further cements the festival's reputation as an especially friendly launchpad for UK film. |
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| Instead, the snarling slaphead cements his status as the world's hardest actor by playing essentially the same tough nut of his last few films. |
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| Adhering ceramic shards together has in the past been carried out with a wide variety of material ranging from natural resins such as shellac to plasters, grouts, and cements. |
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| These lead compounds have been used in paste mixtures in storage batteries, in cements, glasses, and ceramics, as pigments in paints, and as an antiknock agent in gasoline. |
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| The GPL elements in the quotation simply serve as the grammatical and syntactical mortar that cements these critical building blocks into a coherent, cohesive whole. |
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| Zinc Oxide-Eugenol cements, like «Pro-Pul-Pan», are particularly reputed for their effect upon pulpal tissues, especially when restoring teeth with deep carious lesions. |
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| Biomaterials, such as absorbable plate systems and bone cements, are being improved continually and are often used in pediatric craniofacial surgery. |
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| Pulverulent Product for stabilizing soils in place comprising a pulverulent fatty amine such as distearyl dimethylammonium chloride and at least one pulverulent product chosen from cements, slaked limes and fly ash. |
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| At the same time, for economic, technical and environmental reasons, primarily pozzolanic additions, some of which are aluminic in chemical character, are included in Portland cements. |
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| Limpet BD6: Self-setting cements for internal, external and marine use as a protective layer over calcium silicate and all mineral wool insulants. |
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| Freshly broken surfaces exhibit interstitial matrix that ranges from fine-grained, clean quartz sandstone and siltstone, hematitic claystone and cements. |
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| In the case of silica cements, the process is called lithification. |
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| One of the most familiar of these alternative cements is asphalt concrete. |
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| Carbonate hardgrounds were thus very common, along with calcitic ooids, calcitic cements, and invertebrate faunas with dominantly calcitic skeletons. |
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| The companies promoted by him include Bharati Cements and Sandur Power. |
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