fracture, sinter, onslaught, metal fatigue/physical fatigue , mop sth up, propping agent

* Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue

Henri Matisse

A Struggle for Common Ground, Amid Fears of a National Fracture

By JACK HEALY and NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES

People in interviews across the United States said the nation increasingly felt mired in bloodshed and blame, and was fracturing along racial and ideological lines.

Today at MoMA Store Soho: meet Nervous System, the designers behind the 3-D printed dress. http://bit.ly/1HX3uu4

[Nervous System (est. 2007), Jessica Rosenkrantz (American, b. 1983), Jesse Louis-Rosenberg (American, b. 1986). Kinematics Dress. 2013. Laser-sintered nylon. Image courtesy of Steve Marsel. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds]

Dark Side of a Natural Gas Boom
By JAD MOUAWAD and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Some environmentalists are concerned that a technology called hydraulic fracturing used to produce natural gas could be leading to pollution.

BUY OR SELL-Japan steel firms: metal fatigue or time to shine?
Reuters - USA
By Yuko Inoue TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Renewed interest in Japanese steelmakers' strong edge in super high-end sheet steel has boosted their shares by ...



SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.

on・slaught

━━ n. 猛攻撃 ((on)).

mop sth up (CLEAN) phrasal verb [M]
to use a cloth or a mop to remove liquid from the surface of something:
There's milk on the floor over there - could you get a cloth and mop it up?



metal fatigue 金屬疲勞 (喻)
Weakened condition of metal parts of machines, vehicles, or structures caused by repeated stresses or loadings, ultimately resulting in fracture under a stress much weaker than that necessary to cause fracture in a single application. Fatigue-resistant metals have been developed and their performance improved by surface treatments, and fatigue stresses have been significantly reduced in aircraft and other applications by designing to avoid stress concentrations.


Hydraulic fracturing is a method used to create fractures that extend from a borehole into rock formations, which are typically maintained by a proppant, a material such as grains of sand or other material which prevent the fractures from closing. The method is informally called fracing or hydro-fracing.

fracture 

Pronunciation: /ˈfraktʃə/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

1The cracking or breaking of a hard object or material:ground movements could cause fracture of the pipe

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1.1[COUNT NOUN] A crack or break in a hard object or material, typically a bone or a rockstratum:a fracture of the left leg

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1.2The physical appearance of a freshly broken rock or mineral, especially as regards the shape of the surface formed:obsidian shows a conchoidal fracture

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2Phonetics The replacement of a simple vowel by a diphthong owing to the influence of a following sound, typically a consonant.

2.1[COUNT NOUN] A diphthong substituted by fracture.

VERB

1Break or cause to break:[NO OBJECT]: the stone has fractured[WITH OBJECT]: ancient magmas fractured by the forces of wind and ice

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1.1[WITH OBJECT] Sustain a fracture of (a bone):(as adjective fractured) a fractured skull

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1.2(With reference to a group or organization) split or fragment and become unable tofunction or exist:[NO OBJECT]: the movement had fractured without his leadership

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1.3(as adjective fractured) (Of speech or a language) faltering and full of mistakes; broken:they’d misinterpreted his fractured English

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Origin

Late Middle English: from French, or from Latin fractura, from frangere 'to break'.

fracture
━━ n., v. 破砕（する）; 割れ目; 【採鉱】断口; 【医】骨折（する）; 割る; 混乱させる; （名声などを)傷つける.


propping agent
(′präp·iŋ ′ā·jənt) (petroleum engineering) Sand, gravel, or particles of other material (such as sintered bauxite or ceramic beads) suspended in drilling fluid during formation fracturing to keep (prop) open the cracks in the rock when the fluid is withdrawn. Also known as proppant.

Ceramic proppant 40/70

sintered bauxite proppant, designed for

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   2. Sintering is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by heat and/or pressure without melting it to the point of liquefaction. Sintering happens naturally in mineral deposits or as a manufacturing process used with metals, ceramics, plastics, and other materials.

sinter

音節

 

sin • ter

 

発音

 

síntər

1. [名][U]
2. 1 温泉沈殿物，湯の花.
3. 2 《冶金》焼結製品.

1. ━━[動](他)(自)《冶金》焼結する.