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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In neural., lying or situated between the granule-cells of the brain.

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  • adjective metallurgy Occurring along the boundaries between the crystals or grains of a metal

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Examples

  • The lighter areas reveal where gases are rising from below, while the darker 'intergranular lanes' reveal where cooler gases are sinking back down.

    The Sun - Granulation Bente Lilja Bye 2008

  • In Appendix C of its BPAT Report, FEMA documented that "evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure."

    AE911 Truth: Letter to Congressman Robert Wexler 2008

  • I, therefore, tried to give the intergranular liquid the density of the grains by dissolving suitable substances in it.

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • We can repeat the previous reasoning with the only change that the intergranular space, instead of being void, is now a liquid which exerts on each grain, in an opposite direction to its weight, a push in accordance with Archimedes 'principle.

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Oil stain filling the intergranular porosity was observed in drilling rock samples from the Middle Bakken Porosity.

    unknown title 2011

  • Reservoir types include biohermal reef zones in the Fort Payne, occasional intergranular porosity zones, fractures, and combinations there of.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • -- FEMA finds rapid oxidation and intergranular melting on structural steel samples

    Raw Story's obligatory 9/11 'truth' article... - Lullaby Academy's MySpace Blog | It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it... 2010

  • As chemist Kevin Ryan has said, the question NIST would need to answer is: "[H] ow did sulfates, from wallboard, tunnel into the intergranular microstructure of the steel and then form sulfides within" 118 Physicist Steven Jones added:

    911 Blogger News Feed RL McGee 2010

  • This means that sulfur had entered into the intergranular structure of the steel (which the New York Times article had indicated by saying that sulfur had "combined with atoms in the steel").

    911 Blogger News Feed RL McGee 2010

  • Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

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