By lifting the corer, a long, cylindrical sample is extracted in which the structure of the seabed's layers of sediment is preserved.
A mechanism is normally needed to retain the cylindrical sample in the coring tool.
Ice cores are cylindrical samples from within ice sheets in the Greenland, Antarctic, and North American regions.
Samples typically have at least one flat surface that can be scanned, although cylindrical and spherical samples can also be scanned with the proper fixtures.
It uses a circular blade to get a cylindrical sample of skin tissue.
Using a process which uses diamond core drills, they take long cylindrical samples of rock.
MEPHISTO simultaneously processes three identical cylindrical samples of bismuth and tin alloy.
With it one obtained a cylindrical sample of a vein or rock.
In use, a long, cylindrical sample to be tested is suspended from a balance, partially entering between the poles of a magnet.
The drill itself is hollow, and as it penetrates rock, a cylindrical sample 2.5 inches in diameter is trapped inside.