It is worth noting that convention does not give the Governor-General the ability to dissolve either the House of Representatives or the Senate without advice.

The mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids was known as aqua regia ( royal water ), celebrated for its ability to dissolve gold ( the king of metals ).

The ability of one compound to dissolve in another compound is called solubility.

The mixing is referred to as miscibility, whereas the ability to dissolve one compound into another is known as solubility.

Solubility is not to be confused with the ability to dissolve or liquefy a substance, because the solution might occur not only because of dissolution but also because of a chemical reaction.

Advocates of bottle-based filling systems also cite less waste of plastic for the environment, a wider selection of inks, easier cleaning of pens ( as drawing the ink in through the nib helps dissolve old ink ), and the ability to check and refill inks at any time.

Adding salt along with the detergent does not soften the water as does a dishwasher with an ion-exchange water softener, but the water will gain some additional ability to dissolve hard water ions.

The ability of a substance to dissolve in water is determined by whether the substance can match or exceed the strong attractive forces that water molecules generate between themselves.

If the substance lacks the ability to dissolve in water the molecules form a precipitate.

The remaining reserve powers are the power to dismiss a Prime Minister who has lost confidence of the House of Representatives ; the ability to dissolve Parliament and call elections if a Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the House ; the power to refuse a Prime Minister's request to dissolve Parliament and hold elections.

While it is comparable to the French model, where there is a President ( the European Council President ) and Prime Minister ( the Commission President ), the Council President does not hold formal powers such as the ability to directly appoint and sack the Commission President, or the ability to dissolve Parliament.

He had discovered that a substance ’ s anaesthetic action was related to its ability to dissolve in a layer of the lipid part of the plasma membrane, the anaesthetic molecules affected the opening of sodium channels which he assumed to be protein.

He starts to exhibit fly-like characteristics, such as vomiting digestive enzymes onto his food in order to dissolve it, and the ability to cling to walls and ceilings.

As the magic binding her in time begins to dissolve, Yūko's ability to maintain the shop's magical existence fades and she eventually passes on, telling Watanuki that he will finally be free of his ability to see demons.

Lipophilicity, ( Gr. fat-liking ), refers to the ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and non-polar solvents such as hexane or toluene.

He was revived at giant size and gained the ability to dissolve buildings with his spray.

The Crown also has executive powers which do not depend on Parliament, through prerogative powers, which include among others the ability to dissolve Parliament, make treaties, award honours, appoint officers and civil servants, and appoint and dismiss the Premier.

Another important change reduced the president's power by restricting presidential ability to dismiss the government, dissolve parliament, or veto legislation.

Jinx is an East Indian elemental sorceress whose powers include the ability to command elements such as air, the manipulation of magical energy that she can manifest as offensive force bolts and green flame, the ability to dissolve matter, and create ground tremors.

The ability of an ion to preferentially dissolve ( as a result of unequal activities ) is classified as the Potential Determining Ion.

The ability to superimpose spatially located variables onto existing maps created new uses for maps and new industries to explore and exploit these potentials.

The ability of ETC technology to be applied to existing gun designs means that for future gun upgrades there's no longer the necessity to redesign the turret to include a larger breech or caliber gun barrel.

Yet, even as he provided order to existing rhetorical theories, Aristotle extended the definition of rhetoric, calling it the ability to identify the appropriate means of persuasion in a given situation, thereby making rhetoric applicable to all fields, not just politics.

Practice and the usage of existing information in long-term memory can lead to additional improvements in one's ability to use chunking.

Given the currently keen interest in biotechnology and the high levels of funding in that field, attempts to exploit the replicative ability of existing cells are timely, and may easily lead to significant insights and advances.

He said the TVA's supplanting of Commonwealth & Southern could threaten $ 400 million in investors ' equity, which convinced the House to limit the TVA's ability to build transmission lines that competed with existing private companies.

That value was chosen so that the caesium second equalled, to the limit of human measuring ability in 1960 when it was adopted, the existing standard ephemeris second based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Because of the existing computer equipment requirements, and the ability of light to analyze very small amounts of substance, it is often beneficial to automate many aspects of the sample preparation.

Neurotrophic factors have the ability to modulate neuronal growth during development to maintain existing cells and to allow recovery of injured neuronal populations in the eye.

One of the most interesting features in MAD is the ability to extend the language by redefining existing operators, defining new operators, or defining new data types ( modes ).

By 2006, Lockheed Martin Space Systems had described the ability to use existing Centaur hardware, with little modification, as a test bed for in-space cryogenic fluid management techniques.

The key to survival and autonomy is the ability to adapt to change, not perfect adaptation to existing circumstances.

While the need to create a legal framework for existing bank securities activities became a dominant theme for the “ financial modernization ” legislation supported by Leach, Rubin, Volcker, and others, after the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 in 1999, commentators identified four main arguments for repeal: ( 1 ) increased economies of scale and scope, ( 2 ) reduced risk through diversification of activities, ( 3 ) greater convenience and lower cost for consumers, and ( 4 ) improved ability of U. S. financial firms to compete with foreign firms.

The existing written evidence ( including ongoing correspondence between the women concerning the development of the multi-volume series, Lane's extensive personal diaries detailing the time she spent working on the manuscripts, and Wilder's own initial draft manuscripts ) tends to reveal an ongoing mutual collaboration that involved Lane more extensively in the earlier books, and to a much lesser extent by the time the series ended, as Wilder's confidence in her own writing ability increased, and Lane was no longer living at Rocky Ridge Farm.

The missile was small enough to fit in existing large silos, like those for the Titan II, but was otherwise similar in concept to the ICBM-X, with a circular error probable ( CEP ) of about 0. 1 miles, and especially the ability to be quickly re-programmed to attack any targets needed.

Gaining job experience increases a character's job level, each job level provides a skill point which can be spent in the job's skill tree to gain a new ability, such as a spell, special attack or passive bonus, or improve an existing ability.

", and complained that "... young men of no particular ability, who have been earning from $ 10 to $ 12 a week, are suddenly elevated to salaried positions paying from $ 25 to $ 50 ..."— and recommended the re-training of existing coach drivers.

First released in 1987, a second version in 1989 added the ability to run queries in parallel, and the product became fairly famous for being one of the few systems that scales almost linearly with the number of processors in the machine: adding a second CPU to an existing NonStop SQL server will almost exactly double its performance.

A critical problem with the proposed subway is that the stations will be much narrower and shorter in comparison to existing Muni Metro stations on Market Street ; ridership projections reveal that the line will run at near capacity from the start of operations with little or no ability to increase capacity.

In 1980, Discovision Associates released a factory update ( it could also be retrofitted to existing 7820s ) that reduced disc search times to less than three seconds, and added the ability to jump up to 99 tracks during vertical blanking, giving essentially " instant " searches.

While it is not backwardly compatible with existing FM receiver equipment, with broadcasts digitally encoded using AAC, this ability to operate within the internationally agreed FM spectrum of 88-108 MHz makes DRM + a viable candidate for future adoption when countries begin to switch off their analogue broadcasts.

A number of critical books about management consulting argue that the mismatch between management consulting advice and the ability of executives to actually create the change suggested results in substantial damages to existing businesses.

These programs improve the ability of homeowners to fund house modifications, through renovating existing houses.

Cutting exploits the ability of plants to grow adventitious roots ( i. e. root material that can generate from a location other than the existing or primary root system, as in from a leaf or cut stem ) under certain conditions.