on+the+surface
81Surface Web — The surface Web (also known as the visible Web or indexable Web) is that portion of the World Wide Web that is indexed by conventional search engines. The part of the Web that is not reachable this way is called the deep Web. Search engines… …
82The Descent (novel) — The Descent is a novel by author Jeff Long.Plot introductionA sci fi/horror book that reimagines Jules Verne s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Dante Alighieri s Inferno by imagining the exploration of a sub surface world filled with… …
83Surface Transportation Assistance Act — The Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 was a comprehensive transportation funding and policy act. USStat|87|2136Effective in 1983, Section 405 (USC|49|31105) was enacted to encourage employee reporting of noncompliance with safety… …
84surface-active — [sʉr′fisak΄tiv] adj. Chem. designating or of a substance, as a detergent or wetting agent, that lowers the surface tension of the solvent in which it is dissolved or the tension at the interface between two immiscible liquids * * * sur·face… …
85surface potential — The electrostatic potential due to surface charged groups and adsorbed ions at a surface. It is usually measured as the zeta potential at the Helmholtz slipping plane outside the surface …
86Surface tension — Sur face ten sion (Physics) That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to… …
87Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act — The Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100 17, Apr. 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 132) is a United States Act of Congress, also called the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1987. It nominally gave power to apportion money …
88Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 — The Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 was the federal legislation championed by the Reagan administration to address concerns about the surface transportation infrastructure (highways and bridges). The Act added a nickel to the gas… …
89Surface — Sur face, v. i. 1. To rise from the depths of a liquid to the surface; as, the submarine surfaced to recharge its batteries. [PJC] 2. To become known or public; said of information. [PJC] 3. To show up, as a person who was in hiding; as, he… …
90The Sky So Big and Black — is a science fiction novel by John Barnes that was published in 2002. The title itself refers to the clear sky as seen from the surface of Mars, to the nearness of the Martian horizon because Mars is a much smaller planet, and to the abrupt… …
