It felt as if I were setting my right foot into soft mud or a sponge.
This cover acts as a giant sponge, absorbing rainfall and reducing polluted storm-water runoff.
In an industry filled with high-tech drilling gear, why are shale drillers excited about a sponge?
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Leah and McGuffin were washing his car and horsing around with a wet sponge.
Abtech has already sold Smart Sponge-based systems to dozens of municipalities, industrial sites and airports.
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Rink explained to me that Smart Sponge was initially developed for use in mopping up oil spills.
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The tax breaks could act like a giant sponge to soak up income that would otherwise be taxed.
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As the answers became less obvious (is a sponge living?), his brain had to bring on more circuitry.
This spring Prestone is coming out with a hockey-puck-shaped hand- held wax applicator sponge called the Bullet Wax.
They should let the bleach sit for 15 minutes before using a mop or sponge to clean up.
Water soaking will loosen them and like a new sponge, once in water it is never the same.
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Once the Smart Sponge has soaked up some oil no amount of squeezing will get it back out.
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The same physical properties that make polyurethane good for riding waves also make it a heck of a sponge.
He has the two-sided variety, sponge on one side, squeegee on the other.
That was like putting a Sponge Bob band-aid on a gaping surgical wound.
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Traditionally, Kiddush consisted of some "stale sponge cake and Tam-Tam crackers, " with a smattering of herring, says Rabbi Schneier.
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According to court records, Gleason taunted his victim by stuffing a urine-soaked sponge into his mouth before killing him.
From the 1950s, in many European, Asian and Latin American countries, it functioned as a sponge to sop up unemployment.
After cooling down and receiving a sponge bath, Orb was loaded onto a van headed to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
"If you see a brush mark or a knife mark, a sponge or a rag, you are not succeeding, " he said.
To emphasize the vessel's underbelly, Lycett highlights it with a harmonizing pink-cream glaze enriched with a subtle sponge-daubing of additional gold.
The competition takes place across multiple categories, including sponge paint, airbrushing and face painting, all featuring different techniques and materials to achieve the transformations.
"Teaching young people is always a joy and in Callum's case he absorbed all the knowledge like a sponge, " he added.
But she was not disgusted, even when she had to rewrap stumps or sponge gashes that were sewn up like shark bites.
The players describe him as a "sponge" and call him Coach Joe, even though he is not allowed to do any coaching.
She likens influences to "an enormous sponge" songwriters squeeze out onto songs.
Existing ultracapacitors get their extra surface area by using electrodes coated with carbon and etched to produce holes, rather like a sponge.
The plastic also acts as a chemical sponge absorbing some of the worst pollutants in the sea and increasing its toxicity when swallowed.
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The result is, in effect, a liquid sponge, and means the mixture can be stored indefinitely, like ordinary diesel, without risk of separation.
Because this one called Smart Sponge looks to be a great new weapon in the fight to clean up oily water.
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