These are rafts made of light balsa wood, so buoyant as to be used in coasting voyages.
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The vitreous humor was removed and the posterior eyecup was ever ted over abalsawooddome and transferred to the recording chamber.
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Words likebalsawoodand comrade are highly concrete or highly imageable, yet linguistic information is necessary to acquire their meaning.
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Four airfoil-shaped filets, made frombalsawood, were used to reduce the wake from the junction of the support wires and cylindrical surface with satisfactory results as described below.
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The use of the term model also embraces rough card orbalsawoodmodels as well as more finished models presented to clients or planning officials.
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They will also be interested in horror comics and in people flying throughbalsawoodframes on television.
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Model glider aircraft are models of aircraft using lightweight materials such as polystyrene andbalsawood.
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The wings were built in the usual fashion in negative molds, and are also of fiberglass/balsawoodsandwich construction.
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She made sculpture from materials such as sheet metal, gauze,balsawoodand handmade paper painted with shimmering fields of color.
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Balsawoodis a very lightweight material with many uses.
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It featured two laminatedbalsawoodpropellers each approximately 2 m (6.2 ft) in diameter.
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Balsawoodstrips were added between the flap/speed brake halves, causing them to remain open at a 5 angle.
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He ran a company building small, lightweight boats out ofbalsawood.
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The design and material of longboards in the 1950s changed from using solid wood, tobalsawood.
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In the 1960s, the longboard continued to remain popular as its material changed frombalsawoodto fiberglass and polyurethane foam.
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He took six photographs of the debris, which he described as aluminum,balsawood, and burnt rubber.
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