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The spectrometer of NIMS used a grating to disperse the light collected by the telescope.
The Cassegrain telescope of the UVS had a 250 mm aperture and collected light from the observation target.
A 100 mm aperture reflecting telescope collected light and directed it to a series of filters, and, from there, measurements were performed by the detectors of the PPR.
The secondary electrons are first collected by attracting them towards an electrically biased grid at about + 400 V, and then further accelerated towards a phosphor or scintillator positively biased to about + 2, 000 V. The accelerated secondary electrons are now sufficiently energetic to cause the scintillator to emit flashes of light ( cathodoluminescence ), which are conducted to a photomultiplier outside the SEM column via a light pipe and a window in the wall of the specimen chamber.
Louis Pasteur could rightly be described as the first stereochemist, having observed in 1849 that salts of tartaric acid collected from wine production vessels could rotate plane polarized light, but that salts from other sources did not.
The highest individual light trap total for 2010 was from a trap located in a salt marsh in the Fire Island National Seashore: approximately 25, 142 mosquitoes were collected during a 16-hour period on August 31.
The group of Radek Wojtak of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen collected data from 8000 galaxy clusters and found that the light coming from the cluster centers tended to be red-shifted compared to the cluster edges, confirming the energy loss due to gravity.
This light will be collected by an optical system, such as an elliptical mirror.
To this end, on 23 September 1965, he collected an informal group around him which he called ‘ Rakutenkai ’, which had as its aim to pursue truth in daily life, acquire perfect liberty, live within the light of liberty, and become the light of the world.
Wavelengths close to the laser line due to elastic Rayleigh scattering are filtered out while the rest of the collected light is dispersed onto a detector.
Reported events that he collected include teleportation ( a term Fort is generally credited with coining ); poltergeist events, falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range ; crop circles ; unaccountable noises and explosions ; spontaneous fires ; levitation ; ball lightning ( a term explicitly used by Fort ); unidentified flying objects ; mysterious appearances and disappearances ; giant wheels of light in the oceans ; and animals found outside their normal ranges ( see phantom cat ).
This area is equivalent to an circular aperture, which would be greater than any other single telescope, but it is not comparable in many respects since the light is collected at a lower diffraction limit and is not combined in the same way.
There was a third, important type of collector on Genesis: the concentrator, which collected bulk solar wind, but was discriminating in that it electrostatically repelled hydrogen and had enough voltage that it focused the light solar wind elements ( e. g., C, O, N, S ) onto a small target, concentrating those ions by a factor of ~ 20.
For example, ash collected from Hawaiian lava fountains consists of sideromelane ( light brown basaltic glass ) pyroclasts which contain rare microlites ( small quench crystals ) and phenocrysts.
As a writer of verse Bourget's poems, which were collected in two volumes ( 1885 – 1887 ), throw light upon his mature method and the later products of his art.
As more cosmological data began to be collected, cosmologists began to realize that the Big Bang correctly predicted the abundance of light elements observed in the cosmos.
As particles pass through the fringes, the Doppler-shifted light is collected into the photodetector.
Laser light from a solid state diode is reflected off the back of the cantilever and collected by a position sensitive detector ( PSD ) consisting of two closely spaced photodiodes whose output signal is collected by a differential amplifier.
Wharton was curious, and one morning when a light snow was falling, collected some from a field near his house, melted and evaporated it, studying the remaining particles under a microscope which he had on hand for metallurgy.
The collected light is then matched with a model, for example, the diffusion model, giving an optimization problem.
He once stood up and said against a certain collected assembly: " You may well have light and truth, but knowledge alone will benefit you nothing.

collected and from
Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;
In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.
Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
Statistically, the most significant data have been collected from the sensors on 1958 Alpha ( Explorer 1 ), 1958 Delta 2 ( Sputnik 3 ), and 1959 Eta ( Vanguard 3 ).
A measure of the total mass accretion of meteoritic material by the Earth is obtained from analyses of deep-sea sediments and dust collected in remote regions ( Pettersson, 1960 ).
One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).
Grab samples were collected from the existing oxidation pond to determine its operating conditions.
Louisiana, however, collected an income tax on the profits from the sale.
Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini.
The works of Aristotle that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission are collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum.
He not only had enough food from his subjects to maintain his military, but the taxes collected from traders and merchants added to his coffers sufficiently to fund his continuous wars.
Plan of entire Spruce Tree House from above, cut from 3D scanner | Laser scan data collected by a CyArk / National Park Service partnership
Section view of Kiva A in Mesa Verde's Fire Temple, cut from laser scan data collected by a CyArk / National Park Service partnership.
The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).
Pieces of amber torn from the seafloor are cast up by the waves, and collected by hand, dredging, or diving.
The sanctuary of a Presbyterian church in Yachats, Oregon, has six windows with panes made of agates collected from the local beaches.
The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).
His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.
The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.
Most commercially collected ambergris comes from The Bahamas in the Caribbean, particularly New Providence.
Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.

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