By contrast, black powder made with sodium nitrate must be kept sealed to remain stable.

In contrast to the collinear Lagrangian points, the triangular points ( and ) are stable equilibria ( cf.

David Greig's 2010 play Dunsinane took Macbeth's downfall at Dunsinane as its starting point, with Macbeth's just-ended reign portrayed as long and stable in contrast to Malcolm's.

David Greig's 2010 play Dunsinane takes Macbeth's downfall at Dunsinane as its starting point, with his just-ended reign portrayed as long and stable in contrast to Malcolm's.

In contrast, the second ionization energy is very high ( 3052 kJ / mol ), because removal of two electrons breaks the stable noble gas electronic configuration.

In contrast to other states in the region, Paraguay was efficiently and honestly administered, stable, and secure ( the army having grown to 1, 800 regulars ).

In contrast to the figures discussed in this section thus far, David Hume lived a relatively quiet life that had settled down to a relatively stable social and political structure.

This is in contrast to a species, which from an evolutionary perspective is a more-or-less stable single genotype, most of the offspring of which will be genetically accurate copies.

) Also, in contrast to MACHOs, there are no known stable particles within the standard model of particle physics that have all the properties of WIMPs.

By contrast, macromolecules generally have many degrees of freedom and their crystallization must be carried out to maintain a stable structure.

Houyhnhnms contrast strongly with the Yahoos, savage humanoid creatures: whereas the Yahoos represent all that is bad about humans, Houyhnhnms have a stable, calm, reliable and rational society.

As the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx has shifted to Brooklyn in the 2000s, Manhattan's Chinatown's Cantonese population still remains viable and large and successfully continues to retain its stable Cantonese community identity, maintaining the communal gathering venue established decades ago in the western portion of Chinatown, to shop, work, and socialize — in contrast to the Cantonese population and community identity which are declining very rapidly in Brooklyn's Chinatown.

The Northern Continent, in contrast, is relatively infertile, composed primarily of ' shield ' bedrock and is the most tectonically stable landmass on the planet.

This is in contrast, for example, to lithium ion batteries, which are less stable and will be permanently damaged if discharged below a minimum voltage.

:" It is this contrast between the stable and the chaotic that grounds our division of the world into the enduring and salient features of the world, and those features that we must treat statistically or probabilistically.

In North America, the populations seem to have been stable by contrast, except in the east.

Daisyworld simulations where environmental changes were stable gradually became less diverse over time ; in contrast gentle perturbations led to bursts of species richness.

Daisyworld simulations where environmental changes were stable gradually became less diverse over time ; in contrast gentle perturbations led to bursts of species richness.

Noting that the clumsy " created " nature of the young Hemingway in A Moveable Feast is well-established as fraudulent ( e. g., Hemingway had access to large sums of money during the time he was in Paris, yet portrayed himself as " starving "), Kennedy points out that Hemingway writes as if he were the only person in his literary circle in Paris who was sexually stable and healthy, in contrast to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.

By contrast, the four concurrently connected galvanometers of W. Ross Ashby's Homeostat hunt, when perturbed, to converge on one of many possible stable states.

In part this strict disciplinary attitude has enabled LO to be a very stable organisation in contrast to the instability that they allege characterises so many other left groups.

In contrast to previous work on central pattern generators, this framework suggests that stable behavioral patterns are an emergent, self-organizing, property of the agent-environment system rather than determined by the structure of either the agent or the environment.

The outgoing Scotty Administration, which had won a landslide election victory only weeks before Keke and others resigned and participated in successive votes of no confidence, enjoyed wide popular support, and was broadly seen in the years 2004-2007 as offering a stable contrast to a previous period of very frequent use of the vote of no confidence, when governments would fall over issues which sometimes reflected relations between personalities rather than the exigencies of the wider national interest.

It is argued by these economists that, in contrast to fractional-reserve banking, full-reserve banking guarantees a stable money supply, which ensures that the means of exchange is not debased over time.

In contrast, historical cost accounting, based on the past transactions, is simpler, more stable, and easier to perform, but does not reflect current fair value.

* This article only considers the mainstream Christian views, in contrast to, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Adventism, Early Christianity, Nontrinitarianism and others.

By contrast, the Christmas tree in spite of frequent association with Thor's Oak cannot be shown to be an innovation predating the Early Modern period.

Eating fresh " garden " peas before they were matured was a luxurious innovation of the Early Modern period: by contrast with the coarse, traditional peasant fare of pease pottage, Potage Saint-Germain, made of fresh peas and other fresh greens braised in light stock and pureed, was an innovation sufficiently refined that it could be served to Louis XIV of France, for whose court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was named, ca 1660-80.

In contrast, the remains of the Early Bronze Age on the island align it with the culture that developed in the Cyclades and Sporades to the south in the Aegean.

Early critics of the Analyse du jeu des Échecs include those of the Modenese School ( Ercole del Rio, Lolli or Ponziani ), who in contrast to the French, advocated a free piece play, gambit openings and tactical complications ; they also found some of the variations reported in the Analyse to be unsound ( in particular those related with f7 – f5 push in the Philidor Defence 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 f5 ?!).

Early on, Captain Hero was often the most serious and competent of the Super Teens, and the others would defer to his leadership, in contrast to Jughead's perceived status as Archie's sidekick and a generally lazy individual.

Early Chinese writers viewed the " noble " gibbons, gracefully moving high in the treetops, as the " gentlemen " ( jūnzǐ, 君子 ) of the forests, in contrast to the greedy macaques, attracted by human food.

Early inductive effects of the axial mesoderm upon the overlying neural ectoderm is the mechanism that establishes the length dimension upon the brain primordium, jointly with establishing what is ventral in the brain ( close to the axial mesoderm ) in contrast with what is dorsal ( distant from the axial mesoderm ).

Edwin Pulleyblank has argued that the tables contain enough evidence to reconstruct the speech of that later period, which he calls this language Late Middle Chinese in contrast to the Early Middle Chinese of the Qieyun, and argues that it was the standard speech of the imperial capital Chang ' an in the late Tang dynasty.

It was built in the Early English Plain Gothic style, although in contrast, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel was richly decorated and Pugin ’ s later churches were built in that Decorated Gothic style throughout.

Early LCD sets were widely derided for their poor overall image quality, most notably the ghosting on fast-moving images, poor contrast ratio, and muddy colors.

By contrast, the serious transformations that Chinese models effected in the eighteenth century, on the plain style of Early Georgian English furniture, notable in the cabriole leg, or on the " naturalistic " style of English landscape gardening, to take two clear examples, are not considered instances of " Chinoiserie ".

The church's principally red brick construction perhaps set the theme for the later complex although its Early English Gothic style ( English Gothic architecture ) ( Gothic revival architecture ) is in contrast with the main college buildings ' domestic Tudor manner ( Tudor style architecture ).

Early work on the mode of material flow around the tool used inserts of a different alloy, which had a different contrast to the normal material when viewed through a microscope, in an effort to determine where material was moved as the tool passed.

By contrast, in Early Edition, the protagonist is able to successfully prevent catastrophes predicted in the newspaper ( although, if the protagonist does nothing, these catastrophes do come about ).

Early lenses suffered from flare and low contrast, worsening as the number of lens-air interfaces increased.