In that time the purpose of such study was to find a synthetic alternative to natural silk fiber.

Synthetic alternatives, a press officer says, 'have all flopped, literally'.

What we're targeting on the synthetic alternatives are only the ones to do with pleasure.

It consists of a soft flat bag filled with down, feathers, wool, silk or a synthetic alternative and protected with a removable cover, analogous to a pillow and pillow case.

Natural rubber has risen by 54 per cent over the past year, reflecting the rising cost of the petrochemicals used to make synthetic alternatives to natural latex.

Playing on synthetic grass requires a much higher degree of accuracy in terms of controlling the ball and passing it.

Let us cover this green and pleasant land with plastic (or synthetic grass if you prefer).

The synthetic grass will be of different lengths in each lane.

Those tiny little rubber pellets they sprinkle over the synthetic grass get everywhere: in your boots, your shorts, your pants.

The venue has one main stand with roof covers, a 1400 lux floodlight system, a frame scoreboard and a synthetic grass pitch surface.

Oil sands fell into loss as the market price of crude oil fell below the cost of mining bitumen and converting it into synthetic oil.

It did the job at a fraction of the cost but used ordinary oil instead of the synthetic oil that the main dealer insisted on.

The money will be used to hire more staff and to commercialise its technology to manufacture synthetic oil.

Synthetic oil provides more resistance, because it was developed to continue lubricating when cold and extremely hot, not just at the normal running temperature.

The oil companies had invested more than $17 billion in the projects, which convert nearly 600,000 barrels of tar-like crude into valuable synthetic oil every day.

The wonders of anesthetic and synthetic skin sprays have come to his aid, as has elaborate taping.

He hid his grotesque appearance with bandages and a trenchcoat and used his synthetic skin, which only lasts 99 minutes in light.

His legs are clearly cybernetic, while his arms are composed of synthetic skin and muscle over a plasti-steel skeleton.

The drum consists of a wooden barrel with animal hide or synthetic skin stretched over its open ends, covering them completely.

What he liked about rubber and vinyl was the way it contained a body, concealing imperfections and defining contours beneath a gleaming synthetic skin.

Then comes the cake - an apotheosis of synthetic substances bought from a local supermarket - all bright colours and tasting like cotton wool.

Steroids produced naturally in the body have a heavier carbon content than synthetic substances but, until now, it has been difficult to measure the different carbon ratios.

This class of compounds includes several synthetic substances that are important feedstocks for the chemical industry, such as ethylene diamine, 1,3-diaminopropane, and hexamethylenediamine.

The raw materials for many of these synthetic substances come from crude oil.

Pigments may be any number of natural or synthetic substances with color, such as sulphur for yellow or cobalt for blue.

How many defeats today are going to be blamed on the synthetic surface?

Twenty-four hours earlier every corridor could have doubled for the sandy synthetic surface of the racetrack.

Three other clubs followed suit, each confidently predicting that the synthetic surface represented the future of football, a future free from groundsmen and the vagaries of living grass.

First staged in 1833, the two-mile contest will in future be run on a synthetic surface.

The athletics track had a synthetic surface measuring 400 metres with 8 circular lanes and 10 straight lanes.

All the fields have synthetic turf and lights.

In 2010 the field was converted to its third surface, synthetic turf.

The stadiums are fully enclosed and have natural grass outfields and synthetic turf infields.

The stadium received new synthetic turf, bench areas, landscaping and other improvements including upgrades to the entrance area and scoreboard in 2008.

In early 2010, the grass was replaced by latest generation of synthetic turf with dimensions of 105.80 meters long and 68 meters wide.

Since the development of a synthetic version in the late 19th century, indigo has led a much quieter life, being most closely associated with denim.

Scientists made a synthetic version of the venom.

They then produced a synthetic version of the slime and seeded it with the microbes, finding that they produced nitrogen in that environment as well.

Many perfume makers have created a synthetic version of the scent, but some prefer the real deal and still pay a lot to get their hands on it.

A synthetic version of the scent can boost hair growth hormones by nearly a third.

Many nutritionists believe these synthetic vitamins don't have the same health-boosting effects as natural vitamins found in foods.

Synthetic vitamins provide nutrients in a partially isolated state, which means the body finds them harder to absorb.

You cannot, she observes, reconstruct a carrot's soul in pill form: if we rely on synthetic vitamins, we miss out on all the other important compounds contained in natural foods.

And their synthetic vitamins are not absorbed as well as natural ones.