Hydrophilic
lubricious coatings, used on devices like cardiovascular catheters, are particularly susceptible to particulation: the water they absorb makes them slippery when wet and easier for physicians to use, but it also makes them weaker.
They also become extremely hydrophilic and highly
lubricious, making these coatings very slippery.
The AL400-D Gas Plasma System is designed for deposition of a
lubricious, low-coefficient-of-friction coating on bulk medical components.
"Slippery" translates into "
lubricious," "long" becomes "lengthy," and "beautiful" is now "stunning."
They rank as the hardest and most
lubricious of all natural materials.
Six researchers from the Istanbul Technical University won the R&D 100 award, regarded as the technology oscars of the U.S., with the super hard and
lubricious coating they developed.
Tecvac's PVD coating technology allows very thin, high integrity, high adhesion coatings of very hard and often very
lubricious materials to be applied to metal surfaces, including titanium, steel, nickel and aluminium.
Apparently, if Sid said "phwoar" to a young lady, he was "expressing enthusiastic or especially
lubricious approval".
Tonight, performers in New York City and Santa Cruz, California, are preparing for
Lubricious Transfer, a collaborative work specifically developed for simultaneous live performance at two sites.
Chrome or titanium-nitride's smoother finish is effectively more
lubricious on its own.
After meeting at a party and enjoying a
lubricious week together, Hannah leaves to study in Israel while Raymond continues with his research into Robert Button's The Anatomy of Melancholy-a bulky, seventeenth-century contemplation of the innumerable ways in which people make themselves miserable.
She had been greatly impressed with Jones's show in the Royal Society of Antiquaries: the slides of winged penises, flying vulvas, belled cocks, pudenda on stilts, sows and donkeys spinning thread,
lubricious widows and other symbols of vigour, and fertility and misogynist motifs.
A major breakthrough came in 1996 when Placontrol switched from nylon to a much stronger, more
lubricious fiber it calls Tuffloss.
