Word: porousness
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Synthetic resins (like Zalmite) are basically a chemical synthesis of phenol (carbolic acid), formaldehyde and some form of nitrogen. Wood flour is used as a filler. Zalmite is rendered light and porous by sending a blast of air through the soft uncast material...
...France's midriff is the bleak Massif Central, mountain chain where rise little streams which become rivers that water most of Southwestern France. Last week four days' rain filled the porous mountainsides like a sponge, precipitated a flood which covered a district large as Pennsylvania, killed more than 300 people, did $24,000,000 worth of damage...
...through which the Dartmouth interference and ball carriers paraded, were blasted in it by the rugged Green charges. It was the line's failure to make openings which sealed the doom of the Harvard running attack and the Crimson passers were hurried by the India linemen sifting through the porous opposing wall...
John David, New York chain store clothier, laid the cornerstone of gala headquarters last week, gave dress prophecies. He envisioned men bare-legged from ankle to knee, wearing roomy shorts instead of trousers, porous and mesh materials, vivid sandals, formal attire of silk or satin knee breeches, cutaway coat, colored waistcoat, buckled shoes...
...little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric arc whence an air blast blows the melting aluminum against its carrier object, just as paint or lacquer is blown. This (a Swiss method) produces a porous aluminum coating little protective against acids...