Several kinds of descriptive categorizations can be applied broadly to the elements, including consideration of their general physical and chemical properties, their states of matter under familiar conditions, their melting and boiling points, their densities, their crystal structures as solids, and their origins.

Several terms are commonly used to characterize the general physical and chemical properties of the chemical elements.

Several methods of calculation have been proposed, and although there may be small differences in the numerical values of the electronegativity, all methods show the same periodic trends between elements.

Several other programming languages incorporate elements first introduced in Eiffel.

Several of its independent elements are historically plausible, such as Jesus having been executed before Passover, as John reports.

Several design elements of organizational reward systems are needed to meet this objective.

Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu ( superseded by modern no ) is preserved in words such as matsuge (" eyelash ", lit.

Several out-of-place elements were included in the game, such as credit cards, a wizard turning player character Pit into an eggplant, and a large, moving nose that was meant to resemble composer Tanaka.

Several heavy elements, such as uranium, thorium, and plutonium, undergo both spontaneous fission, a form of radioactive decay and induced fission, a form of nuclear reaction.

Several planned elements were cut from the game.

Several object-oriented programming languages directly support object serialization ( or object archival ), either by syntactic sugar elements or providing a standard interface for doing so.

Several methods have been proposed to remedy this by increasing genetic diversity somehow and preventing early convergence, either by increasing the probability of mutation when the solution quality drops ( called triggered hypermutation ), or by occasionally introducing entirely new, randomly generated elements into the gene pool ( called random immigrants ).

Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights feature early science fiction elements.

Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

Several of the more conservative elements of the Nationalist Party had only tolerated Hughes after the war, suspecting he was still a socialist at heart.

Several elements of " Core to Shore " were included in the MAPS 3 proposal approved by voters in late 2009.

Several elements of Lady Astor's life to this point influenced her first campaign, but the main reason she became a candidate in the first place was her husband's situation.

Several key elements of the movie — such as the Brotherhood of the Grail, Indy's friend Sallah, and the Venice water chase and the desert battle scenes ( except for small hidden references )— were not included in the game.

Several elements of Flow-Matic were incorporated into COBOL:

Several of the game's main characters talk through a variety of elements from Shenmue including mini-games, magic weather system and free battle.

Several modern needlework designers have incorporated elements of Hardanger cut work into their embroidery designs and samplers, often combining them with other needlework techniques, stitches, speciality threads and other embellishments to great effect.

Several Service elements were merged to form this production facility, which occupied the " A " and " B " Buildings at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia.

Several group-13 elements have biological roles in the ecosystem.

Several elements can be accessed all at once:

Several elements were discovered by spectroscopic means, such as helium, thallium, and cerium.

Several organizations, such as the American Association of Variable Star Observers and Center for Backyard Astrophysics, exist to help coordinate these contributions.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

Several references to the god Abraxas appear in Hermann Hesse's 1919 novel, Demian, such as:

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

Several cultivars are known, such as ' Albus ' ( with white flowers ), ' Sapphire ' ( dark blue flowers ), ' Aureus ' ( leaves striped with yellow ), and ' Variegatus ' ( leaves almost entirely white with a few green bands ).

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

Several related flagellates, such as Perkinsus and Colpodella have structures similar to the polar ring and were formerly included here, but most appear to be closer relatives of the dinoflagellates.

Several new commercial Atari 7800 titles such as Beef Drop, B * nQ, Pac Man Collection, Combat 1990, Santa Simon, and Space War have been created and released.

Several modern approaches build on such continental European exemplars as Heidegger, and apply metaphysical results to the understanding of human psychology and the human condition generally ( notably in the Existentialist tradition ).

Several crashed airplanes and large equipment such as bulldozers are scattered around the island.

Several Eastern Bloc countries adopted trolleybus systems, and their manufacturers such as Trolza exported trolleybuses to other friendly states.

Several arboreal primate species, such as Gibbons and Indriids, exclusively utilise bipedal locomotion during the brief periods they spend on the ground.

( Several Labour ministers of later generations, such as Michael Foot and Tony Benn, were the sons of Liberal MPs.

Several other territorial claims such as Sipadan were resolved at The Hague international courts.

Several rating scales for the screening and evaluation of bipolar disorder exist, such as the Bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale.

Several of Canada's largest companies are based in natural resource industries, such as EnCana, Cameco, Goldcorp, and Barrick Gold.

Several contemporary bands have Welsh language songs, such as Ceredwen, which fuses traditional instruments with trip-hop beats, the Super Furry Animals, Fernhill, and so on ( see the Music of Wales article for more Welsh and Welsh-language bands ).

Several condensed matter experiments involve scattering of an experimental probe, such as X-ray and optical photons, neutrons etc., off constituents of a material.

Several languages of North America, such as Mohawk, lack both of the labials and.

Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used for physical measures of brain activity in these studies.

Several impact craters and massive volcanic activity, such as that in the Deccan Traps, have been dated to the approximate time of the extinction event.

Several churches, such as the Anabaptists and Socinians of the Reformation, then Seventh-day Adventist Church, Christadelphians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and theologians of different traditions reject the idea of the immortality of a non-physical soul as a vestige of Neoplatonism, and other pagan traditions.

Several serpentinite deposits are being investigated as potentially large scale CO < sub > 2 </ sub > storage sinks such as those found in NSW, Australia, where the first mineral carbonation pilot plant project is underway.