The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.

For example, if some material is scratched by apatite but not by fluorite, its hardness on the Mohs scale would fall between 4 and 5.

Improper technique can result in the transmission of bloodborne diseases ( due to needlestick injuries, for example ) or puncture wounds, but if done correctly there is far less danger of injury or infection than from being scratched by a cat due to the depth of insertion being controlled and the use of a sterilized needle.

Kenneth Chu has been used as an example of the seriousness of the slur, when he was found murdered with the word chink scratched into his car.

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

The early Roman calendar, which had no way of designating the days of the winter months other than to lump them together as " winter ", is an example of an incomplete calendar, while the Gregorian calendar is an example of a complete calendar.

For example, the incomplete combustion of propane is:

Only little or incomplete case volumes can be found ; for example, the only copy of Di Gong An was found at a second-hand book store in Tokyo, Japan.

Valli's character was an early yet incomplete example of the Hawkian woman archetype as the sexually aggressive showgirl, while O ' Brien's Michael portrayal of a shy man not interested in sex is a character later elaborated upon by Cary Grant and Gary Cooper in later Hawks films.

The binding of oxygen is affected by molecules such as carbon monoxide ( CO ) ( for example, from tobacco smoking, car exhaust, and incomplete combustion in furnaces ).

An example of an inner product which induces an incomplete metric occurs with the space C of continuous complex valued functions on the interval.

For example, to cite Cynthia Freeland's catalogue: " Aristotle says that the courage of a man lies in commanding, a woman's lies in obeying ; that " matter yearns for form, as the female for the male and the ugly for the beautiful ;" that women have fewer teeth than men ; that a female is an incomplete male or " as it were, a deformity ": which contributes only matter and not form to the generation of offspring ; that in general " a woman is perhaps an inferior being "; that female characters in a tragedy will be inappropriate if they are too brave or too clever "( Freeland 1994: 145-46 )

Although Pius XII received frequent reports about atrocities committed by and / or against Catholics, his knowledge was incomplete ; for example, he wept after the war on learning that Cardinal Hlond had banned German liturgical services in Poland.

For example, some bone fragments from the Mooreville Formation of Alabama and the Merchantville Formation of Delaware may have come from Pteranodon, though they are too incomplete to make a definite identification.

In countries in which the vital registration system may be incomplete, the censuses are also used as a direct source of information about fertility and mortality ; for example the censuses of the People's Republic of China gather information on births and deaths that occurred in the 18 months immediately preceding the census.

An example of a dative covalent bond is provided by the interaction between a molecule of ammonia, a Lewis base with a lone pair of electrons on the nitrogen atom, and boron trifluoride, a Lewis acid by virtue of the boron atom having an incomplete octet of electrons.

For example, the schema generates an incomplete logic, as it corresponds to the same class of frames as GL ( viz.

For example, Ibn Taymiyya took the position that since tafsir and sira-maghazi reports were commonly transmitted by incomplete isnads, these reports should not be assessed according to the completeness of the chains but rather on the basis of recurrent transmission of common meaning between reports.

For example, Euclidean geometry without the parallel postulate is incomplete ; it is not possible to prove or disprove the parallel postulate from the remaining axioms.

* complete or incomplete: for example, the stomach may partially or completely herniate into the chest.

For example, $ 20 million has been spent on building a power plant ; the value at present is zero because it is incomplete ( and no sale or recovery is feasible ).

The book's plot follows the game's only loosely ; for example, in the game, the main character's lack of a name is a sign of his incomplete state, and a source of protection in being anonymous.

In Nynorsk these are important distinctions, in contrast to Bokmål, in which all feminine words may also become masculine ( due to the incomplete transition to a three-gender system ) and inflect using its forms, and indeed a feminine word may be seen in both forms, for example boka or boken (“ the book ”).

For example, he mentioned in the preface to chapter 15 that the chronicle records of the feudal states kept in the Zhou's archive were burnt by Qin Shihuang because they contained criticisms and ridicule of the Qin, and that the Qin annals were brief and incomplete.

Snapdragon is a typical example of incomplete dominance by the red allele with the anthocyanin pigment.

Furthermore, although thought disorder is typically associated with psychosis, similar phenomena can appear in different disorders, potentially leading to misdiagnosis — for example, in the case of incomplete yet potentially fruitful thought processes.

During most of the 1790s, Brown developed his literary ambitions in projects that often remained incomplete ( for example the so-called " Henrietta Letters ," transcribed in the Clark biography ) and frequently used his correspondence with friends as a sort of laboratory for narrative experiments.

This method of separation will use some form of generally reactive substance ( for example an acid ) coating or supported by some solid material.

For example, corrugated iron sheet roofing will start to degrade within a few years despite the protective action of the zinc coating.

* Used as a carrier, coating or separating agent for other substances ; for example, it makes beta-carotene water-soluble thus imparting a yellow colour to any soft drinks containing beta-carotene.

For example, a simple routine of coating cotton fabric with silica or titania particles by sol-gel technique has been reported, which protects the fabric from UV light and makes it superhydrophobic.

For example, when a thin polymer coating ( usually a polyimide ) is spread on a glass substrate and rubbed in a single direction with a cloth, it is observed that liquid crystal molecules in contact with that surface align with the rubbing direction.

PTFE: polytetrafluoroethylene ( PTFE ) is typically used as a coating layer on, for example, cooking utensils to provide a non-stick surface.

The olefins are used as feedstocks for derivative units that produce plastics ( polyethylene and polypropylene for example ), synthetic fiber precursors ( acrylonitrile ), industrial chemicals ( glycols for instance ) while the aromatics are used for octane boosting in fuel blending as well as polyethylene terephthalate PET feedstock and paint and coating solvents.

For example, deep frying is usually not recommended in enameled ovens ; the enamel coating is not able to withstand high heat, and is best suited for water-based cooking.

For example circuit breaker panels may be enclosed within wooden cabinetry which keeps the whitewash spray coating from entering the panel.

A vacuum environment allows researchers to conduct physical experiments or to test mechanical devices which must operate in outer space ( for example ) or for processes such as vacuum drying or vacuum coating.

PEDOT-PSS ( Clevios P ). As an example of a static application, poly ( 3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene )- poly ( styrene sulfonate ) ( PEDOT-PSS ) product Clevios P ( Figure 7 ) from Heraeus has been extensively used as an antistatic coating ( as packaging materials for electronic components, for example ).

For example a coating that is ( 2 μm ) thick, will increase the part dimensions by ( 1 μm ) per surface.

The sensitivity of graphene chemical gas sensors can be dramatically enhanced by functionalizing graphene, for example, coating with a thin layer of certain polymers.

Occasionally, other coating materials are used, for example synthetic polymers, shellac, corn protein zein or other polysaccharides.

A classical example is the development of dirt-and water-repellent paint ( coating ) from the observation that the surface of the lotus flower plant is practically unsticky for anything ( the lotus effect ).

A special case is arc welding, in which the hydrogen is released from moisture ( for example in the coating of the welding electrodes ; to minimize this, special low-hydrogen electrodes are used for welding high-strength steels ).

The damage to engines is a particular problem since temperatures inside a gas turbine are sufficiently high that volcanic ash is melted in the combustion chamber, and forms a glass coating on components further downstream of it, for example on turbine blades.

The hardest, strongest, and slickest is such a mixture, known as tetrahedral amorphous carbon, or ta-C. For example, a coating of only 2 μm thickness of ta-C increases the resistance of common ( i. e. type 304 ) stainless steel against abrasive wear ; changing its lifetime in such service from one week to 85 years.

For example, avidin-displaying baculoviruses could be imaged in rat brain by coating them with biotinylated iron particles, rendering them visible in MR imaging.

More elaborate versions of the Swiss roll can be found in bakeries, with, for example, whipped cream and a whole banana rolled in the middle, or with a thin marzipan coating that resembles a birch log.

In addition to paint, it can applied as a coating, for example on synthetic polyurethane leather, or dispersed in a resin for injection molding.

Measurements may involve simple metrology techniques, e. g., the measurement of the thickness of a surface coating, or the apparent diameter of a discrete second-phase particle, ( for example, spheroidal graphite in ductile iron ).

Passivation occurs when the metal forms a stable coating of an oxide or other salt on its surface, the best example being the relative stability of aluminium because of the alumina layer formed on its surface when exposed to air.