When they struck atoms in the glass wall, they excited their orbital electrons to higher energy levels, causing them to fluoresce.

When glass was rubbed with silk, du Fay said that the glass was charged with vitreous electricity, and, when amber was rubbed with fur, the amber was said to be charged with resinous electricity.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

When installed in a window frame, the glass would be placed with the thicker side down both for the sake of stability and to prevent water accumulating in the lead cames at the bottom of the window.

When used in art glass or studio glass glass is colored using closely guarded recipes that involve specific combinations of metal oxides, melting temperatures and ' cook ' times.

When thrown against a hard surface, the glass would shatter and the contents would instantly ignite, liberating choking fumes of phosphorus pentoxide and sulphur dioxide as well as producing a great deal of heat.

When his lawyer pointed out an error in the wording of the act which seemed to limit its application to cases of the destruction of objects worth no more than five pounds, he was convicted instead of the destruction of the glass case in which the vase had sat.

When the bird returned, it used the shamir to break the glass, whereupon the men scared the bird, causing it to drop the worm, which the men could then bring to Solomon.

When added to glass, it helps increase refractive index and decrease dispersion.

In the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and what to Drink, author William Schmidt listed the Tom Collins as including :< u > Tom Collins Gin ( 1891 )</ u > The juice of half a lemon in a large glass, a bar-spoonful of sugar, a drink of Tom gin ; mix this well ; 2 lumps of ice, a bottle of plain soda. Mix well and serve.

When he leaves his calling card on the windshield of David Dunn's car, he is reflected in a glass frame in his art gallery.

When cooled below the glass transition temperature, the quasi-fluid chain segments " freeze " into fixed geometries and the rubber abruptly loses its elastic properties, although the process is reversible.

When served neat ( without any additional ingredients ), tequila is most often served in a narrow shot glass called a caballito (" Little Horse " in Spanish ), but can often be found in anything from a snifter to a tumbler.

When the joint sizes are different, ground glass adapters may be available ( or made ) to place in between to connect them.

When mixed with concentrated sulfuric, they begin releasing oxygen, which can oxidise the carbonaceous dehydration products formed from organic residues by the sulfuric to carbon dioxide ; ' burning ' them off the glass.

When burning candles in glass holders or jars, users should avoid lighting candles with chipped or cracked containers, and stop use once 1 / 2 inch or less of wax remains.

When they gathered around a blanket on which pinole ( a ground corn flour ) had been placed for them, Johnson and his men opened fire on the Chihenne with rifles and a concealed cannon loaded with scrap iron, glass, and a length of chain ).

When drunk at room temperature, it is often slightly warmed by holding the glass cupped in the palm or by gently heating it.

When it reaches temperatures of 850 – 900 ° C, perlite softens ( because it is a glass ).

When focus and composition were satisfactory, the ground glass screen was removed and a sensitised plate put in its place protected by a dark slide.

When the Smithsonian's gallery was renovated in 1997, the necklace was moved onto a rotating pedestal inside a cylinder made of thick bulletproof glass in its own display room, adjacent to the main exhibit of the National Gem Collection in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals.

When the house became a museum, the gallery the Frank sisters created was preserved under glass.

When experts were replacing the old corks with new ones they discovered there were also bottles from a third house ; Heidsieck.

When sediment was discovered in the bottles, however, the plan was abandoned.

When attacking lone merchantmen in the days before wolfpack tactics began in earnest, he had been known to hand down bottles of spirits and blankets into lifeboats and give them a course to the nearest land.

When he accidentally fell from the stage, breaking bottles of medicine as he fell, people laughed.

When Guybrush first appeared in The Secret of Monkey Island he was an awkward teenager whose sole ambition in life was to be a pirate ( the Monkey Island games take place in the Caribbean during a fictional time period ; 17th century-style pirates exist alongside anachronistic objects such as vending machines that dispense grog in glass bottles ).

When the analysis is looking for bacterial species that grow poorly in air, the initial analysis is done by mixing serial dilutions of the sample in liquid nutrient agar which is then poured into bottles which are then sealed and laid on their sides to produce a sloping agar surface.

When Magic: the Gathering released a new core card set in July, Jones Soda coordinated to produce five limited edition bottles featuring Magic's five colors of mana and artwork from Magic's new Planeswalkers.

When first launched, the 500ml bottles were marketed as " The Pammy ", as their curves were designed to resemble Pamela Anderson who was at the height of her popularity in the UK at the time.

When asked by the press — who were the first to inform him that he and the rest of the Hog Farm were handling security — what kind of tools he intended to use to maintain order at the event, his response was " Cream pies and seltzer bottles " ( both being traditional clown props ; he may have been referring to the silent film era Keystone Kops in particular ).

When the police arrived, the customers began pelting them with coins, and later, bottles and rocks.

When a level is completed, all of the clue bottles are collected and the secret move is found, the player can then attempt a " Master Sprint ", a timed sprint through the level to try to beat a set time.

When it was first introduced in 1964, Diet Pepsi was packaged in glass bottles, and was also made available in can format.

When asked by the press what kind of tools he intended to use to maintain order at the event, his response was " Cream pies and seltzer bottles.

When a tip was phoned in, the family would rush outside and hide all the bottles in the empty field next to their house and the police were left empty-handed.

When he was interviewed after the Hollister riot, he said, " I saw two guys scraping all these bottles together, that had been lying in the street.

When Jane turns her bottles in, she discovers that Reverend Lowe is missing his left eye.

" I walked the length of the Elmes, and with great pleasure saw some gallant ladies and people come with their bottles, and basket, and chairs, and form, to sup under the trees, by the water-side, which was mighty pleasant " When Barn Elms was in the possession of the bookseller Jacob Tonson, the Kit-Cat Club met at Barn Elms for many years ; here the " Kit-Kat portraits " hung ; Tonson's extensions to the house, c1703, seem to have been made under the general advice of John Vanbrugh, a Kit-Kat member.

When studying non-orientable manifolds, it is sometimes useful to allow fibers to have neighborhoods that look like the surface bundle of a reflection ( rather than a rotation ) of a disk, so that some fibers have neighborhoods looking like fibered Klein bottles, in which case there may be one-parameter families of exceptional curves.

When the alcohol reaches 40 %, the Armagnac can be transferred to large glass bottles ( called " Dame Jeanne ") for storage.

When plastics other than those found in soda and water bottles are recycled, they are mixed with different plastics to produce a hybrid of lower quality, which is then molded into something amorphous and cheap, such as a park bench or a speed bump ... Aluminum is another valuable but constantly downcycled material.

When flying from short runways the heavily-loaded F-84s used Jet-Assisted Takeoff ( JATO ) bottles attached to the fuselage.

When the resort was still in operation, water from the springs was sold in blue glass bottles.

When she returned home, she realized with her were 1, 000, 015 bottles.

When England retained the Ashes at Adelaide in 1954-55 the team consumed over 56 bottles of champagne and Edrich-the life and soul of any party-climbed the marble pillar in the lounge of Glenelg's Pier Hotel and sang " Ginger ".