Lichen eats away at granite and over time can cause cracks and pockmarks.
Or keep frogs in pickle jars in bedrooms. Or even watch ants scurry across cracks in the summer sidewalk.
There are ground-based robots, for example, designed to climb up and down piles of rubble and slither into otherwise inaccessible cracks to look for survivors.
Authorities dumped some of the waste seawater used to cool the reactors back into the sea, where it joined contaminated water leaking from cracks in the plant and nuclear fallout from the air.
When that wall cracks, there's another underneath.
Check the building for cracks and damage, particularly around chimneys and masonry walls.
Septicaemic plague may result from flea bites and from direct contact with infective materials through cracks in the skin.
Sprinkler pump shell cracks, or impeller, leaf damage, or seal damage, will affect the degree of vacuum, water pumping, water pressure is too small or the phenomenon.
This lipstick can reach fast into the lip skin to make lips more moist and attactive with purity and lips will keep watery and smooth for long time with no cracks.
Climbers must look for cracks in the rock. They place their hands and feet in the cracks and then work their way up.
Most cupcakes you get in the United States have so much sugar in the frosting that it develops cracks.
Not a village, not a human being, not a tree, not a blade of grass — the only breaks in the monotonous whiteness are gaping cracks which in places show the layer of moist, black clay underneath.
In other words, no visible plumber-cracks or untimely delays.
The method for calculating the shear carried by the concrete and the stirrup stress in beams with inclined cracks are suggested in the paper.
There are wildfires in the south-west and water restrictions in the south-east. Fields are scrubby and fallow, and in some counties the ground is riddled with deep cracks.
Burn off the old paint, fill any cracks in the woodwork, and rub down well with sandpaper.
Since then the cracks in the euro have been spreading.
Colossal impacts in the outer reaches of the solar system may have bowled over remote, frozen moons, leading to vast cracks across their surfaces, research now suggests.
The occurrence of variegated polymictic conglomerate sediment mud cracks gypsum strata and so on can provide evidences for aridity climate in western liaoning.
Much of the wasted water is lost through what the International water Association, an industry body, calls "background leakage" -that is, small but widespread cracks that drip water continuously.
I also drink plantain tea for my hayfever, and that's everywhere, even the cracks in the path.
The Eurozone is far from shattered, yet there does seem to be some hairline cracks.
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