The outermost layer of a space suit, the Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment, provides thermal insulation, protection from micrometeoroids, and shielding from harmful solar radiation.

Her last thought before the event was, I wonder whether a double-thick layer of the Liberated will shield me pom the blast?

The mechanism by which the pattern lasts over several years has not been identified; one suggestion is that a thin layer of warm water during summer may shield deeper cold waters.

Heavy layers of kelbonite shielding guarded Stargazer's computer core, but he kept the runabout on manual control just to be safe.

The flimsy layers of it barely shielded the essentials.

The colonists had burrowed far into the ice-rock, ensuring that a thick layer of ice and spacecraft-hull metal shielded them from the radiation flux of Neptune's magnetosphere and from the relic cosmic radiation of deep space.

Without the layers of safety shielding, it wouldn't be hard to sabotage.

Even a thin layer of copper on the bottom of a steel cooking vessel will shield the steel from the magnetic field and make it unusable for an induction top.

Vaddum's body was as Darling remembered it: the cracked old layers of blast and radiation shielding, the weak impellers suited for zero-g, the five independent hands floating at rest in a star formation.

The hard layers of molten slag would shield tremendous energies from detection.