Because of coquina's softness, cannon balls would sink into, rather than shatter or puncture, the walls of the Castillo de San Marcos.

Because of this, the appearance and physical characteristics of the butter tart – the firmness of its pastry, or the softness of its filling – also varies.

Because of the erosional influences of glaciers and water and the relative softness of the rocks, the Absarokas are quite craggy in appearance.

Because the man's heart was pure, he did not die.

Because of his special status due to the virgin birth and his pure, unselfish nature, Jesus voluntarily faced his struggle in Gethsemane, death, resurrection, and ascension to show humanity that no phase of mortal existence was beyond God's redeeming love.

Because it can be grown in pure culture, microbial action can be excluded.

Because their units cancel, ratios of like-dimensioned physical constants do not depend on unit systems in this way, so they are pure dimensionless numbers whose values a future theory of physics could conceivably hope to predict.

Because of its high reactivity, it is never found as a pure element.

Because turbomolecular pumps only work in molecular flow conditions, a pure turbomolecular pump will require a very large backing pump to work effectively.

Because the total energy must be real, the numerator must also be imaginary: i. e., the rest mass m must be imaginary, as a pure imaginary number divided by another pure imaginary number is a real number.

Because the azeotrope's vapor pressure is higher than predicted by Raoult's law, it boils at a temperature below that of either pure component.

Because they are mixtures, naturally produced waxes are softer and melt at lower temperatures than the pure components.

Because of this, Lutherans confess in the Formula of Concord, " we receive and embrace with our whole heart the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the pure, clear fountain of Israel.

Because the first pure scenery paintings of Europe emerged after the 17th century, Strolling About In Spring may well be the first scenery painting of the world.

Because the hollow of the shofar is irregular in shape, the harmonics obtained when playing the instrument can vary: rather than a pure perfect fifth, intervals as narrow as a fourth, or as wide as a sixth may be produced.

Because a typical lunisolar calendar has a year made up of a whole number of lunar months, it can't indicate the position of Earth on its revolution around the sun as well as a pure solar calendar can.

Because of the extremely high strength of pure fentanyl powder, it is very difficult to dilute appropriately, and often the resulting mixture may be far too strong and, consequently, very dangerous.

Because the density of pure ice is about 920 kg / m³, and that of sea water about 1025 kg / m³, typically only one-ninth of the volume of an iceberg is above water.

: Because my heart is pure.

Because of osmotic imbalance, concentrated paint applied to a prewetted paper has a tendency to diffuse or expand into the pure water surrounding it, especially if the paint has been milled using a dispersant ( surfactant ).

* Because of high waiting times, deadlines are rarely met in a pure RR system.

Because it is such a pure slice of Warren's brain – he wrote, directed, produced and starred, and brooked no collaboration – Manos amounts to the man's cinematically transfigured subconscious.

Because ordinary people normally wore pure white undyed materials, the people were sometimes referred to as the white-clad people.

Because the oceans consist of saltwater, this occurs below the freezing point of pure water, at about-1. 8 ° C ( 28. 8 ° F ).

Because the timing of his revival of the god figure was so exceptional, one can debate whether the success of Wong Tai Sin Temple is merely pure coincidence.

Because the appellation depends on subjective notions of what is " pure " as opposed to " adulterating " as applied to any particular item, conflict can arise both as to whether a person so labeled is actually a purist and as to whether that is desirable.

Because of improved test accuracy, ease of specimen management, convenience in specimen management, and ease of screening sexually active men and women, the NAATs have largely replaced culture, the historic gold standard for chlamydia diagnosis, and the non-amplified probe tests.

Because silver was worth less than its legal equivalent in gold, taxpayers paid their government bills in silver, while international creditors demanded payment in gold, resulting in a depletion of the nation's gold supply.

Because of the metallic gold's bright color, the gold jerseys were considered the " light " jersey in the game, so the Vikings wore their purple home jerseys as the " dark " colored team.

Because the density is so similar to gold ( tungsten is only 0. 36 % less dense ), tungsten can also be used in counterfeiting of gold bars, such as by plating a tungsten bar with gold, which has been observed since the 1980s, or taking an existing gold bar, drilling holes, and replacing the removed gold with tungsten rods.

Because of the intensive exploitation throughout Taiwan's pre-modern and modern history, the island's mineral resources ( e. g. coal, gold, marble ), as well as wild animal reserves ( e. g. deer ), have been virtually exhausted.

Because of the debt she had accumulated ( including delayed payment for her property in Auburn ), Tubman fell prey in 1873 to a swindle involving gold transfer.

Because a gold standard requires that money be backed in the metal, then the scarcity of the metal constrains the ability of the economy to produce more capital and grow .”

Because fractional reserve banking does amount to inflating a currency, the states agreed to curtail fractional reserve banking engaged in by the " wildcat " banks by tying the amount of currency these banks could issue to the amount of gold and silver coin they held.

Because different alloys of gold have different colors ( see gold ) the unknown sample can be compared to samples of known purity.

Because of his opposition to FDR's plan to inflate the dollar by controlling gold prices, he was forced to resign in November 1933 and resumed his law practice.

Because of the massive die-off of the indigenous people, the Atlantic Slave Trade was established to import the labor required for the extraction of resources ( such as gold and silver ) and farming.

Because the outcome of quantum-mechanical events cannot in principle be predicted, they are the ‘ gold standard ’ for random number generation.

Because of the TV show, it was the Queer As Folk CD soundtrack, which went gold within one month of going on sale in March 1999 in the UK, that has become the most successful project the label has ever taken on.

Because gold does not corrode, it is used for high-quality surface-to-surface contacts.

Because of their relatively low mintage, all Dahlonega-minted gold coins are rare.

Because the original Klondike gold strikes had been in Canada, the concept soon evolved to an " Alaska-Yukon Exposition "; later, at the behest of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the " Pacific " theme was also added to emphasize the Oriental trade.

Because of the gold standard there was nothing to stop a flight of gold.