The element is inserted in the discharge circuit in place of the exploding wire, and the calorimetric heating of the element is measured with high accuracy.

Distribution costs are almost bound to increase in the sixties -- and you will never know what you can do to control them unless you study each element and experiment with alternative ways of doing the job.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

A formulaic element need not be held meaningless merely because it was selected with little conscious reflection.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

Science is fully competent to deal with any element of experience which arises from an object in space and time.

Hence it is the atomic number alone that determines the chemical properties of an element ; and it is for this reason that an element can be defined as consisting of any mixture of atoms with a given atomic number.

Synthesis of new elements is accomplished by bombarding target atoms of heavy elements with ions, such that the sum of the atomic numbers of the target and ion elements equals the atomic number of the element being created.

: Given any set X of pairwise disjoint non-empty sets, there exists at least one set C that contains exactly one element in common with each of the sets in X.

** Tukey's lemma: Every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.

Argon ( ) is a chemical element with symbol Ar and atomic number 18.

Arsenic ( ) is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.

Antimony ( or ; ) is a toxic chemical element with symbol Sb and atomic number 51.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

Astatine ( or ) is a radioactive chemical element with the chemical symbol At and atomic number 85.

Three years later it was found in nature, although it is the least abundant element in the Earth's crust among the non-transuranic elements, with an estimated total amount of less than at any given time.

Each element has at least one isotope with an unstable nucleus that can undergo radioactive decay.

And the public minus the `` public '' leaves the so-called `` sophisticated '' element -- the element on the other end of the `` public's '' transactions.

The advantages inherent in mine warfare justify as great an importance for this element as is accorded any of the other elements.

The prefix " hydro -" is added only if the acid is made up of just hydrogen and one other element.

Astatine is an extremely radioactive element ; all its isotopes have half-lives of less than 12 hours, decaying into bismuth, polonium, radon, or other astatine isotopes.

An atom of any other element ionized down to a single electron is very similar to hydrogen, and the orbitals take the same form.

Numerous other games and contests involve some element of anagram formation as a basic skill.

* Absorbing element, in mathematics, an element that does not change when it is combined in a binary operation with some other element

In other armies an ' authorised observer ' ( for example, artillery observation team or other target acquisition element ) can order fire units to engage.

It is a divalent element which occurs naturally only in combination with other elements in minerals.

One of these was the property, an essential universal true of the species, but not in the definition ( in modern terms, some examples would be grammatical language, a property of man, or a spectral pattern characteristic of an element, both of which are defined in other ways ).

It is a legitimate goal therefore for philosophers of being to try to find a principle or element – a " something " – accounting for the presence of the object over the other possibility, its non-presence.

This extension is needed for, among other things, modeling the concepts of " is an element of " or " is a subset of " in set theory, without running into logical inconsistencies such as Russell's paradox.

A Bootstrapping Server Function ( BSF ) is an intermediary element in cellular networks which provides application independent functions for mutual authentication of user equipment and servers unknown to each other and for ' bootstrapping ' the exchange of secret session keys afterwards.

Just as kets and bras can be transformed into each other ( making into ) the element from the dual space corresponding with is where A < sup >†</ sup > denotes the Hermitian conjugate ( or adjoint ) of the operator A.

Notice that at equilibrium the surface adopts a shape such that an element of volume at any location on its surface has the same potential energy as at any other.

Carbon forms more compounds than any other element, with almost ten million pure organic compounds described to date, which in turn are a tiny fraction of such compounds that are theoretically possible under standard conditions.

While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs in the present time, through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

As of 2010, there are 118 known elements ( in this context, " known " means observed well-enough, even from just a few decay products, to have been differentiated from any other element ).

Atoms of pure elements may bond to each other chemically in more than one way, allowing the pure element to exist in multiple structures ( spacial arrangements of atoms ), known as allotropes, which differ in their properties.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

The chemistry of caesium is similar to that of other alkali metals, but is more closely similar to that of rubidium, the element above caesium in the periodic table.