The backwater levee was being "armored" by a heavy plastic coating to prevent it from washing out, he said.

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Each disc is covered in a transparent plastic coating (either blue, green, yellow or red) which lets daylight filter through.

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Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.

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The Z10 features a removable backplate, made of plastic and given a thick, rubberized, dimpled coating.

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Interior surfaces are a notch above those in other budget Honda models, with the hard plastic surfaces softened to the touch by a rubbery coating.

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The card's coating is embedded with thousands of microscopic hollow plastic balls that expand when heated.

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Moreover, he estimates that the coating will enable manufacturers to do away with the big plastic caps currently used, saving about 25, 000 tons of petroleum-based plastics each year.

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