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.

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.

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.

CORK Migrants face countless perils.

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

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

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

In fact, every time I read in Ireland, people get me all mistaken and they say, Oh, this is Chris O'Barney from Cork.

Lateral meristems In many vascular plants, secondary growth is the result of the activity of the two lateral meristems, the cork cambium and vascular cambium.

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.

The wood boring types generally favor dying or dead branches on otherwise healthy trees, while a few types attack green wood some of these are serious pests capable of killing trees and causing major economic damage, such as the invasive emerald ash borer.

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.

In addition to the above, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management is procuring 24 door information panels for deployment by fall 2005 to replace the existing cork clipboards near entrances to meeting rooms.

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.