The bitumen coats the grains of sand like a film and is in turn surrounded by water.
Keeping track of all of this will be like trying to count grains of sand on a windswept, stormy beach.
Yet, this is the trillions of grains of sand on the beach that we have to sort through to find the hidden treasures of useful information.
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Businesses will need every tool they can get as they adapt to the new antiterror obstacles, for ignoring the grains of sand now may jam the gears of commerce later.
Businesses will need every tool they can get as they adapt to the new antiterror obstacles, for ignoring the grains of sand now may result in jamming the gears of commerce later.
Try to measure the area of a Frisbee disc with wooden blocks and the answer is pretty coarse, but do the same thing with 10 billion grains of sand and you can get pretty damn accurate.
Another early beneficiary might be Carbo Ceramics, which sells ceramic pellets the size of grains of sand that are pumped into the rock surrounding the wells to prop open the tiny cracks through which oil and gas flow.
IPv6 actually makes the issue of Internet security that much worse, because IP addresses are the true root of identity and we just added a staggering number of them more addresses than the number of grains of sand on the entire planet Earth.
Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, on average, adding credence to the notion that planets are as common in the cosmos as grains of sand on the beach.
If cleaning sand off a potato was difficult, picking grains out of sand had to be much worse.
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Vaguely analogous to grains of green Hawaiian beach sand, chondrules are arguably the glue needed to make planets like ours.
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Beachrock: ledges of rock formed within the body of the beach consisting of sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate and formed by chemical processes.
Shifting constantly, the mighty mountains of sand are born when a few grains collect around a nest of grass.
To eat the wheat, the monkeys would have to pick out the grains one by one from thousands of particles of sand.
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