adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The layer of clay acts as an impermeable barrier against some chemicals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, large quantities of free gas or other hydrocarbons can be trapped beneath impermeable gas hydrate layers.
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But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose.
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In the absence of antidiuretic hormone, the distal tubule and collecting duct are impermeable to water.
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It was in a shrink-wrap cellophane coating, and the seal was impermeable .
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Otherwise it will yield little or no water from the impermeable confining layer.
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The quick deposition of these sediments resulted in clay compaction and the isolation of porous and permeable sand with impermeable shales.
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These and similar rocks are impermeable .
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Water can not easily flow in these impermeable rocks.