What is "tinfoil"

Usage examples of "tinfoil".

Moreover, an object which yields with the greatest ease will deflect a radicle: thus, as we have seen, when the apex of the radicle of the bean encountered the polished surface of extremely thin tinfoil laid on soft sand, no impression was left on it, yet the radicle became deflected at right angles.

Little square of tinfoil fixed with gum to one side of apex of a young and short radicle: after 15 h.

As the glasstubes, when unpainted, did not prevent the cotyledons from becoming greatly bowed, it cannot be supposed that the caps of very thin tinfoil did so, except through the exclusion of the light.

Another trial was made in a different manner, namely, by bandaging with strips of tinfoil, about .

Cotyledons a little under threequarters of an inch in height were selected for trial: six had their summits protected from light by tinfoil caps, .

Four hypocotyls were surrounded close beneath their petioles with strips of thin tinfoil, .

Seven out of the 8 seedlings with bandages of tinfoil remained upright, but one which had a bandage only .

The pig and Slothrop settled down to sleep among pines thick with shreds of tinfoil, a cloud of British window dumped to fox the German radars in some long-ago raid, a whole forest of Christmas trees, tinsel rippling in the wind, catching the starlight, silent, ice-cold crownfire acres wild over their heads all night.

Ahead of them the tinfoil trees flashed blindingly in the sunlight and the searing reflection from the mirror plants seemed to strike directly into their eyes.

It rolled out of the tinfoil trees like a section of glittering bicycle chair.

There were more tinfoil trees, more mirror plants and the reflected brightness struck painfully at their eyes even through the dark glasses.

The metallic grass had a tarnished look and the tinfoil trees looked limp and greasy.

The incongruity of the whole scenethe possibly naked fat man in front of him, the underwater chairs, the handsomely printed menus, the formal clothes and tinfoil hats of the diners on the other rafts, the prospect of eating poisonous food with the finest spices and saucesmade him want to giggle hysterically.

Bateman took a roll of tinfoil from his pocket, he tore off a piece and sprinkled some of the heroin onto it, then he rolled some more tinfoil into a tight little tube.

The river still ran and had an innocent tinfoil gleam, but Hooper said that the river had carried tons of irradiated slush out of the caves and floated it forth.