A cork borer, often used in a chemistry or biology laboratory, is a metal tool for cutting a hole in a cork or rubber stopper to insert glass tubing.

If this is kept up over many years, this process may produce a layer of cork.

When it is inserted in a cork or piece of wood, and placed in a bowl of water it becomes a compass.

In ancient Greek literature, Ovid makes many references to fishing nets, including the use of cork floats and lead weights.

Cork borers usually come in a set of nested sizes along with a solid pin for pushing the removed cork (or rubber) out of the borer.

As the stems grow a layer of cells form under the epidermis, called the cork cambium, these cells produce cork cells that turn into cork.

Philippa provided royal patronage for English commercial interests that sought to meet the Portuguese desire for cod and cloth in return for wine, cork, salt, and oil shipped through the English warehouses at Porto.

It currently costs the Cuban sports industry 0.95 to produce one baseball, as all the raw materials two types of wool, lint cotton, glue, leather, string, ink for printing and the rubber or cork core have to be imported from the Asian market.

BC And on the front of it is this heat shield, this saucer looking thing that has about a half inch of essentially what's cork on the front of it, which is our heat shield.