Word: denser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death rate in this group by 30%. But the benefits of mammography for younger women are less clear. One reason is that younger women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than older women, so there is simply less cancer to detect. In addition, young breast tissue is denser and more likely to conceal tumors from X rays than the more fatty tissue of older women...
WHEN SKYLAB'S orbit began to degenerate, everyone knew there could be only one outcome. As the satellite plunged closer and closer to Earth, it had to plow through denser and denser layers of the atmosphere; increasing drag reduced its velocity and increased the rate of its fall. Finally, too much of its momentum had been destroyed. The situation, literally, disintegrated...
...animals trapped in Russell Lake are almost certainly doomed. Freshwater from the mountain streams sits atop the denser salt water, with little mixing. As a result, oxygen, which is replenished at the surface through diffusion, cannot be replaced once it is depleted from the salt water. Fish and crabs might last for a year, but the air-breathing sea mammals that eat them will not. "The seals are exhausted from diving through that extra 50 ft. of freshwater before they can reach salt water and maybe find something to eat," says Marine Biologist Tamra Faris of the National Marine Fisheries...
...realistic a quarter- mile away when you are close up against it and cannot see it as a whole. The huge fragmentary paintings of the '60s and '70s are imposing but not tactile; very big but oddly weightless, with none of the haptic intensity that is the gift of denser painting. They look hard to understand because they are easy to read. As Art Historian Judith Goldman points out in her recent book on Rosenquist, most of his images are not just culled, collage-wise, from advertising; they are shards of personal experience, of memories scaled up and colloquially scrambled...
...analysis showed that if the crew memberslost consciousness due to a loss of pressure, theywould not have had time to revive as the crewcompartment fell into denser air at loweraltitudes, Kerwin said