Because of the low availability and the difficulties in the preparation of metallic scandium, which was first done in 1937, it took until the 1970s before applications for scandium were developed.

Because of tungsten carbide's hardness, rings made of this material are extremely abrasion resistant, and will hold a burnished finish longer than rings made of metallic tungsten.

Because the thermal energy of the fluid ( the temperature became about due to compression of the sample ) was above, the hydrogen might be considered metallic.

Because of the low print runs, Decipher was able to include some special features on the cards, including metallic ink, UV-light sensitive ink, better color saturation, artwork bleeding onto the card border, and even a card ( Qapla '!

Because the note is plastic, the same clear windows and metallic images that are seen on the front are seen on the reverse.

Because metallic balloons can cause power outages, it is recommended that the metallic balloons not only be tied by a string or ribbon with no metal in it, but also securely tied down by a weight to prevent the balloon from floating away.

Because of this, its main stars have no particular pattern and it is devoid of bright deep-sky objects.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

Because of its bright colour, it is very popular in zoos and private collections.

Because the " middle term " of this syllogism is not one term, but two separate ones masquerading as one ( all feathers are indeed " not heavy ", but it is not true that all feathers are " bright "), this type of equivocation is actually an example of the fallacy of four terms.

Because of this, these devices are usually operated between crossed polarizers such that they appear bright with no voltage ( the eye is much more sensitive to variations in the dark state than the bright state ).

Because quasars are extremely distant, bright, and small in apparent size, they are useful reference points in establishing a measurement grid on the sky.

Because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil.

Because the presence of the mosaic color screen made the finished Autochrome image very dark overall, bright light and special viewing arrangements were needed for satisfactory results.

Because of the many gardens in the city centre and the high leafy trees alongside the sidewalks of its streets and boulevards, Kutaisi is painted in bright green in the spring and in yellow-red in the autumn.

Because of his criminal fugitive status, Gongsun Du was unable to offer him any official positions immediately, but the prospect was bright and he was expected to play an important role sometime later.

Because of this refraction, antibubbles have a bright appearance.

Because of this gait, the gelada's rump is hidden beneath and so unavailable for display ; its bright red chest patch is visible, though.

Because radio galaxies are so bright, astronomers have used them to probe extreme distances and early times in the evolution of the universe.

" Because of his left-of-center sympathies and his bright red hair, he became widely nicknamed " Red Pepper ".

Because of this, the sun becomes an advantage to the team defending the west end zone during sunny afternoon games, because the team defending the east goal has to look directly into the bright sunlight.

Because losing sleep to obtain bright light exposure is considered undesirable by most people, and because it's very difficult to estimate exactly when the greatest effect ( the PRC peak ) will occur in an individual, the treatment is usually applied just prior to bedtime ( to achieve phase delay ), or just after spontaneous awakening ( to achieve phase advance ).

Because of its bright color and distinctive shape, ' cockscomb ' also describes various plants, including the florists ' plant Celosia cristata, the meadow weed yellow rattle, sainfoin, wild poppy, lousewort, Erythronium and Erythrina crista-galli ; the characteristic jester's cap ; a shape of pasta ( creste di galli ); and so on.

Because the rods are not saturated by bright light and are not sensitive to long-wavelength red light, however, the crew member remains dark adapted, in case they need to look out the periscope at night, for example.

Because of its bright colors, it is well adapted in the sun.

Because of this and the fact that the star is relatively bright, a group of astronomers in N2K Consortium began to study the star.

Because these bright colors and designs risk standing out when a soldier is in combat or in hiding, the shoulder sleeve insignia in its color form is commonly only worn on the dress uniform, when a soldier is not in combat.

Because of its easy growing habits and the bright, showy flowers of cultivars such as ' Roulettte ' ( tiger stripes of gold on a deep mahogany ground ), plains coreopsis is increasingly used for landscape beautification and in flower gardens.

Francis also mentioned another meaning of the song: " Because of Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, but also because it's funny: in Australia, you often say ' It's a smart Alec ' for a guy who's nice but not very bright.

Because the territory of a particular country must be the same color, four colors may not be sufficient.

Because the four color theorem is true, this is always possible ; however, because the person drawing the map is focused on the one large region, he fails to notice that the remaining regions can in fact be colored with three colors.

Because of the softness of pure ( 24k ) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties.

Because hemoglobin is a darker red when it is not bound to oxygen ( deoxyhemoglobin ), as opposed to the rich red color that it has when bound to oxygen ( oxyhemoglobin ), when seen through the skin it has an increased tendency to reflect blue light back to the eye.

Because dyes get their color from the interaction of electrons in their molecules, the way the electrons can move is determined by the charge and extent of electron delocalization in other ink ingredients.

Because changing ink color in a mimeograph could be a laborious process, involving extensively cleaning the machine or, on newer models, replacing the drum or rollers, and then running the paper through the machine a second time, some fanzine publishers experimented with techniques for painting several colors on the pad, notably Shelby Vick, who created a kind of plaid " Vicolor.

Because his exposures were not simultaneous, unsteady subjects exhibited color " fringes " or, if rapidly moving through the scene, appeared as brightly colored ghosts in the resulting projected or printed images.

Because, through the dithering process, the printer builds a single image pixel out of several printer dots to increase color depth, the printer's DPI setting must be set far higher than the desired PPI to ensure sufficient color depth without sacrificing image resolution.

Because of this compatibility requirement, color standards added a second signal to the basic monochrome signal, which carries the color information.

Because SECAM transmits only one color at a time, it is free of the color artifacts present in NTSC and PAL resulting from the combined transmission of both signals.

Because the FM modulation of SECAM's color sub carrier is insensitive to phase ( or amplitude ) errors, phase errors do not cause loss of color saturation in SECAM, although they do in PAL.

Because the color information was designed to be a cheap, backwards compatible addition to the monochrome signal, the color signal has a lower bandwidth than the luminance signal, and hence lower horizontal resolution.

Because it cannot be applied in thick layers as oil paints can, tempera paintings rarely have the deep color saturation that oil paintings can achieve.

Because of their color changing quality, this kind of garnet is often mistaken for Alexandrite.

Because of the deep penetration, more layers of material must lose their color before the fading is apparent.

Because of their sometimes showy flowers of white, pink, scarlet or yellow color and often attractively marked leaves, many species and innumerable hybrids and cultivars are cultivated.

Because remembering individual names would be impossible, everyone was given a color and number for easy identification, thus allowing Coward to direct "# 7 red " to cross downstage and shake hands with "# 15 yellow and black.

Because of its slightly gray color, pollock is often prepared, as in Norway, as fried fish balls, or if juvenile sized, breaded with oatmeal and fried, as in Shetland.