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If heated too quickly, the steam in the outer layers of the kernel can reach high pressures and rupture the hull before the starch in the center of the kernel can fully gelatinize, leading to partially popped kernels with hard centers.
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If amber is heated under the right conditions, oil of amber is produced, and in past times this was combined carefully with nitric acid to create " artificial musk " – a resin with a peculiar musky odor.
If sugars are heated so that all water of crystallisation is driven off, then caramelization starts, with the sugar undergoing thermal decomposition with the formation of carbon, and other breakdown products producing caramel.
If air is heated in a region it will expand in all directions such that the velocity field points outward from that region.
If Godzilla can be heated up somehow, Shiragami theorizes, then the ANEB should work.
If the liquid is heated a little over 100 ° C, the transition from liquid to gas will occur not only at the surface, but throughout the liquid volume: the water boils.
If a material that selectively rejects the daughter nuclide is heated, any daughter nuclides that have been accumulated over time will be lost through diffusion, setting the isotopic " clock " to zero.
changes from the indicative (" If that piece of butter has been heated to 32 C then it has melted ") to the counterfactual (" If that piece of butter had been heated to 32 C then it would have melted ").
If the two layers are heated together, the system of layers will boil at 53. 3 ° C, which is lower than either the boiling point of chloroform ( 61. 2 ° C ) or the boiling point of water ( 100 ° C ).
If sand particles in a fluidized state is heated to the ignition temperatures of coal, and coal is injected continuously into the bed, the coal will burn rapidly and bed attains a uniform temperature.
If heat conduction is too great, fluid moving down by convection is heated by conduction so fast that its downward movement will be stopped due to its buoyancy, while fluid moving up by convection is cooled by conduction so fast that its driving buoyancy will diminish.
If it is heated further, it also begins to emit discernible amounts of green and blue light, and the spread of frequencies in the entire visible range cause it to appear white to the human eye ; it is white hot.
If two lit candles are placed side-by-side, the heated air from each candle rises and entrains surrounding air.
If the system at State A is isobarically heated ( heating with no change in system pressure ) then the relative humidity of the system decreases because the saturated vapor pressure of water increases with increasing temperature.
If plaster or gypsum is heated above 392 ° F ( 200 ° C ), anhydrite is formed, which will also re-form as gypsum if mixed with water.
If oxygen is re-introduced to the fire, e. g. by opening a door ( or window ) to a closed room, combustion will restart, often explosively, as the gases are heated by the combustion and expand rapidly because of the rapidly increasing temperature.
If the person performing the spinal tap rapidly looks at the heated wet mount slide the trophozoites can be seen to swarm while monocytes do not.
If the coin was sufficiently heated and struck hard enough, a layer of eutectic alloy ( a mixture of 72 % silver and 28 % copper that has the lowest melting point of any mixture of these two metals ) would be produced, fusing the layers together.
If the tank is being heated in an area where there is no liquid, it may rupture faster without the liquid to absorb the heat.
If ordinary candles are too hot, a special wax blend with a high concentration of mineral oil can be heated to lower temperatures in a crock pot or double boiler.
If heated, the high thermal conductivity of copper dissipates the heat to prevent melting or burning.
If saturated steam is heated at constant pressure, its temperature will also remain constant as the steam quality ( think dryness ) increases towards 100 % dry saturated steam.
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If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.
If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.
If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
If the background of design is too smooth, or you wish to create a wood-grained effect, it may be added at this time with a dull tool such as the handle of a fine paintbrush.
If you got too many people investing by this method, their operations would begin to affect stock prices, and thus throw the charts off.
If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
If the platform is not too high off the ground, a transit can be mounted on a stand to raise it up to the platform.
If baby teeth are retained too long, the incoming second teeth may be prevented from emerging at the normal time or may have to erupt in the wrong place.
`` If teeth are moved too rapidly, serious injury can be done to their roots as well as to the surrounding bone holding them in place '', explains Dr. Brodie.
If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.
If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity.
If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them.
`` If you kick too much, your leg gets kinda dead '', he explained.
If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.
If he dwelt on the indignities he suffered he would lose all respect for her, and without the respect he might lose his view of her, too.
If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.
If the anchor continues to drag, or sets after having dragged too far, it should be retrieved and moved back to the desired position ( or another location chosen.
If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.
If the hijackers ' demands are deemed too great and the perpetrators show no inclination to surrender, authorities sometimes employ armed special forces to attempt a rescue of the hostages ( notably Operation Entebbe ).
If the delay is too short, it will destructively interfere with the un-delayed signal and create a flanging effect.
If the concentration of element or compound in a sample is too high for the detection range of the technique, it can simply be diluted in a pure solvent.
If he begins to run too soon, the pitcher may throw to a base rather than to home — in this case, the runner is picked off, and will most likely be tagged out.
# If the beat on the new record hits before the beat on the current record then the new record is too fast, reduce the pitch and manually slow the speed of the new record to bring the beats back in sync.
1.104 seconds.