Heat-loss prevention

Usage examples of insulation.

Since the chapel was stone, it provided fairly good insulation, so he did not pick up the blazon of anger from outside until the door opened and Abel entered with his wife, Kadi, and Willa.

The joints had, as Feth expected, shrunk at the seals, and traces of oxides could be found in the insulation.

He hung spread-eagled and imbedded in the fiberfill insulation like a fly in amber, staring blankly at the floor.

It is also proposed to test various kinds of insulation and insulators in this laboratory, and to determine the durability of such insulation in the presence of such corrosive gases and water as are found in mines.

They walked away from the house site, picking their way through piles of construction materials, some of which, like greenboard, polyester insulation, and composite board, had never before been seen on this world.

Furtively, she inspected the homeostatic control box of the tractor, and picked at the frayed, partially incinerated insulation of one of its power cables.

He carefully lined the makeshift iglu with whatever insulation they had, set Carol gently inside, and pulled the hatch over the opening as shelter from the wind.

He was supercharged with violence, like a high-tension power line, and if we cut through his insulation, either by insulting him or talking back or giving the slightest indication that we thought ourselves superior to him, he would deliver a megavolt assault that we would never forget.

He said it as he and Ricky walked across concrete to go back to sweeping and fire watching amongst the jungles of wire and insulation and pipes and pvc being bent across tailpipes of generators of joy juice.

To insulate the human body from extreme temperatures ranging from -250 to 250 degrees Fahrenheit and to maintain pressure against the vacuum of space, the suit was constructed of multiple layers of aluminized Mylar insulation, nylon ripstop, an Ortho-fabric cover, and a pressure-garment bladder.

Lacking insulation of any kind, the sievelike walls admitted icy draughts of wind and moisture.

Without foam insulation the subfreezing temperatures of the deep would condense the moisture from their breathing and ice up the hull.

All three of them were dressed identically, wearing a superstrength olive-green one-piece anti-projectile suit, covered with an outer insulation layer to diffuse beam weapons.

A series of tests as to the ability of the insulation of electric wiring to withstand the attacks of acid mine waters is in progress, which will lead, it is hoped, to the development of more permanent and cheaper insulation for use in mine wiring.

He could not move in the balloonlike insulation, but weightlessness claimed him for two or three seconds before the engines began to roar.