Using a cold cathode gauge in gases with substantial organic components, such as pump oil fractions, can result in the growth of delicate carbon films and shards within the gauge that eventually either short-circuit the electrodes of the gauge or impede the generation of a discharge path.

* Yaxchilan Lintel 24 – Ancient carving showing a Maya bloodletting ritual involving a rope with obsidian shards.

A rifleman needs to have one hand in front of the cylinder to balance the weapon, and as a result, would end up with shards of metal sprayed at high velocity into his forearm.

Thor arrives, and kills the builder by smashing the builder's skull into shards with the hammer Mjöllnir.

They stripped her naked, skinned her to death with ostraca ( pot shards ), and then burned her remains.

Whenever working with liter sized or larger flasks, chemists should consider using a safety screen or the sash of a flow hood to protect them from shards of glass, should an implosion occur.

Glassware can also be wrapped with spirals of tape to catch shards, or wrapped with webbed mesh more commonly seen on scuba cylinders.

During welding, the glass shards and pumice fragments adhere together ( necking at point contacts ), deform, and compact together, resulting in a ' eutaxitic fabric ' ( see image and contrast with the ash shapes in unwelded tuff ).

Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in the 1960s, referred to Gaudi's buildings as growing " like sugar loaves and anthills " and describes the ornamenting of buildings with shards of broken pottery as possibly " bad taste " but handled with vitality and " ruthless audacity ".

Along with the remains of the two bodies, archaeologists found " shards of a container of sulfuric acid, nails, metal strips from a wooden box, and bullets of various caliber.

Along with the remains of the two bodies, archaeologists found " shards of a container of sulfuric acid, nails, metal strips from a wooden box, and bullets of various caliber.

Thor arrives, and kills the builder by smashing the builder's skull into shards with Mjöllnir.

Pop, especially, won fame for his outrageous onstage behaviour — smearing his bare chest with hamburger meat and peanut butter, cutting himself with shards of glass, and flashing his genitalia to the audience.

" Rachel Bar-Nathan also notes, " t Jericho, there is also a striking lack of luxury ware, with only a few painted shards in the whole repertoire.

The necklace's jewel glows red whenever a heart shard is nearby, and these shards have lodged themselves in people with strong emotions, which the heart shard magnifies.

A woman splashed sand into her eyes, a man cut his belly with shards of glass but did not bleed, another swallowed fire.

The top of the bastion which was exposed to enemy fire would not normally be faced with masonry otherwise canon balls hitting the surface would scatter lethal stone shards among the defenders.

The Knuckles and Rouge levels are based on hunting, with the characters scouring the levels for three keys, usually shards of the Master Emerald, much like Knuckles ' levels in Sonic Adventure.

Magneto managed to hold off a squad of Nimrods, attacking with electrical blasts before finally dismembering the robots by pulling shards of iron from the core of Utopia through them.

An extensive ditch system, not visible on aerial photographs, has been identified, as well as a wooden track-way 800 m in length between Fordey Farm ( Barway ) and Little Thetford with associated shards of later Bronze Age pottery ( 1935 ).

' Sky One ' was rebranded as ' Sky1 ' on 31 August 2008 at 18: 00, with presentational elements featuring blue gem shards as ' solids ' to fit the element theme also used by Sky2 and Sky3 ( which use ' liquids ' and ' particles ' respectively in their presentational elements ).

The Zone is shown splitting into three separate shards, one containing each villain, before it finally shatters, freeing them.

* Alara: The plane of Alara was shattered long ago by an unknown force ; it is now split unequally into five unique shards, each having no knowledge of the others.

The goals for each stage are to defeat the other player by completing a task first: racing levels require the player to reach the Goal ring, shooting levels end when one Walker runs out of energy either by being destroyed by the competitor or falling off the stage, and the treasure hunting levels are won when one character gets two of the three Emerald shards.

Libeskind envisaged a ' constellation composed of three interlocking shards ' with each shard being a remnant of an imagined globe shattered by conflict.

These shards in turn represented air, earth and water, and each formed a functionally distinct part of the museum.

After Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus are each visited in their nightmares by the mummy, the three awaken to find Professor Tarragon comatose with the telltale shards of crystal by his bed.

The player ( s ) must defeat the end bosses of each of the four kingdoms to obtain the four glass shards which allow access to the desecrated temple via a window in the starting tower and be able to banish Skorne to the Underworld.

The player has to control one of the Rangers, and retrieve 100 shards throughout each level.

They escaped total destruction by splitting themselves into thousands of spirit shards, each of which inhabited an animal.

Their feud finally ended at Hardcore Heaven 1995 on July 1, 1995 when Axl defeated Ian in a " Taipei Death match " ( a match that saw each man coat their taped fists with shards of broken glass ) which turned out to be one of ECW's bloodier matches.

The shards spread all through the world, each containing evil.

There were still some shards of ivory at the site, moulds and other casting equipment, and a black glaze drinking cup engraved " I belong to Phidias ".

As of 1841, there were six large burial mounds at Grigsby ’ s Bluff, size about 60 feet wide, 20 feet tall, and 100 yards long, consisting entirely of clam and sea shells, skeletons, pottery shards, and other Indian artifacts.

Chinese pottery shards, coins from Arabia, glass beads and other non-local items have been excavated at Zimbabwe.

The main flow of the game is different than the other Dragon Quest games ; instead of exploring one large world, the party goes to separate continents by placing stone shards into their appropriate pedestals in Estard Fane.

In addition, a hired team of armed vigilantes covertly funded by the U. S. and several other nations is hunting Adam as well, and have developed an " Eternity bullet "-manufactured from shards of the Rock of Eternity-which can penetrate Adam's skin and kill him.

Mender accompanied Cutter and the other warriors in the battle with Grohmul Djun for the shards of the palace.

She and Skot accompanied the other warriors in the quest to regain the shards of the palace ; Skot was killed and Krim later mortally wounded, but she allowed herself to be healed by Mender only because he told her she was carrying a child.

The breccia contains many broken fragments ( or shards ) of quartzite and other rocks.

For those not at ground zero, like the delay between lightning and thunder, there would be a delay between the flash ( indicating the need to duck and cover ) and the arrival of the blast wave, which will shatter windows turning non safety glass into shards of sharp missiles, and cause other blast or impact injuries.

Generally discarded material, ostraca were cheap, readily available and therefore frequently used for writings of an ephemeral nature such as messages, prescriptions, receipts, students exercises and notes: pottery shards, limestone flakes, thin fragments of other stone types, etc., but limestone sherds, being flaky and of a lighter color, were most common.

Depicted on petroglyphs and in pottery shards, as well as wall-paintings in tombs, the various performing arts nearly always incorporated Korean masks, costumes with Korean knots, Korean embroidery, and a dense overlay of art in combination with other arts.

This area is also famous for its widely exported medieval pottery, shards of which are found in large quantities on medieval excavations throughout Ireland and other European countries.

The verdant cay has long been uninhabited, but figurines, pottery shards, and other artifacts discovered there in the mid-1980s have been ascribed to Lucayan Indians living on the cay about the time of Christopher Columbus ’ voyages.

Most of the facing stone was later pillaged for use in other buildings — a fate common to almost all of Egypt's pyramids — and today the pyramid is little more than an eroded, vaguely pyramidal mountain of mud brick, and of the once magnificent mortuary temple precinct formerly enclosed by a wall there is little left beyond the foundation bed of compacted sand and chips and shards of limestone.