Text from the Ma Wang-Dui suggest that it was originally like the Western system representing elemental substances.

No longer did it matter what you were looking at, because you were breaking it down to its elemental system components.

Since there are no shear strain components in this coordinate system, the principal strains represent the maximum and minimum stretches of an elemental volume.

In the Golden Dawn magical system, the Earth Pentacle is one of four elemental " weapons " or tools of an Adept.

Image: Golden Dawn Earth Pentacle. svg | The Earth Pentacle in the Golden Dawn system of magic, one of the elemental " weapons " or tools of an Adept.

By observing the flow into an elemental square in an x-y Cartesian coordinate system, we have:

By observing the flow into an elemental square in an r – θ polar coordinate system, we have:

In this case, the fact that the system is closed is expressed by stating that the total number of each elemental atom is conserved, no matter what kind of molecule it may be a part of.

The magic system is based around six elemental principles: Lyahvi ( Air / Light / Illusion ), Peleahn ( Fire ), Jmorvi ( Metal / Artifice ), Fyrvia ( Life / Growth / Decay ), Odivshe ( Water / Cold ), and Savorya ( Mind / Spirit / Knowledge ).

Since the concept of the zàng-fǔ was developed on the basis of Wǔ Xíng philosophy, they're incorporated into a system of allocation to one of five elemental qualities ( i. e., the Five Elements or Five Phases ).

The advice are often given based on the number of strokes of the names or the perceived elemental value of the characters in relation to the child's birth time and personal elemental value ; rarely on the sound of the name as there is no system of fortune-telling based on character pronunciations.

This practice is in contrast to a purely analytic tradition ( sometimes called reductionism ) which aims to gain understanding of systems by dividing them into smaller composing elements and gaining understanding of the system through understanding their elemental properties.

These delays forced Crystal Dynamics to cut significant game material, including additional powers for Raziel, a third battle with Kain, and an expanded Glyph system which would have given elemental powers to the Soul Reaver.

The game's magic system is based on four classes of magic: Black, consisting primarily of elemental attacks and negative status effects ; White, mainly for healing and protection ; Spirit, for stat changes, status ailments and non-elemental magic ; and Composite, which can combine two spells, once learned, into multi-target or multi-function spells.

Cyclooctatetraene is reduced by elemental potassium all the way to the dianion because the 10 electron system is aromatic.

They ’ ll carry it with them in their future life …. And this future life in the body of eons will be very long, almost as long as the Universe itself .” Suggests Charon, “ the electrons which form my body are not only carriers of what I call ‘ my ’ spirit, but, in fact constitute my spirit itself .” Electrons are sent individually into the Universe to learn and to increase the order of the Universe ; “ the psychic level of the whole Universe progressively elevates itself … during the ‘ successively lived experiences ’ of elemental matter .” The goal of each electron is to increase its energy to the highest level of sustainable excitement ; that is, to contain the most information within the largest stable system of organization possible.

If the system runs out of reactive hydrocarbons economically viable elemental sulfur deposits may form.

Lanthanum easily is oxidized ( a centimeter-sized sample will completely oxidize within a year ) and is therefore used as in elemental form only for research purposes.

* Elemental analysis: A destructive method used to determine the elemental composition of a molecule.

High resolution mass spectrometry can usually identify the exact formula of a compound and is used in lieu of elemental analysis.

The many electrons created from each of these combinations will show up as spikes in the analyzer output, and these can be used to determine the elemental composition of the sample.

Terbium easily oxidizes, and is therefore used in its elemental form specifically for research.

The unalloyed elemental form is used mainly in electrical applications.

Because it retains its strength at high temperatures and has a high melting point, elemental tungsten is used in many high-temperature applications, such as light bulb, cathode-ray tube, and vacuum tube filaments, heating elements, and rocket engine nozzles.

Other metal oxides can be used, such as chromium oxide, to generate the given metal in its elemental form.

Quite soon, bromine was found to have advantages, but was not used in elemental form.

If it is possible to separate the product from the rest of the reaction mixture elemental analysis can be used.

Usually they are sourced from inorganic ( e. g. carbon dioxide, water, nitrate, phosphate, sulfate ) or organic ( e. g. carbohydrates, lipids, proteins ) compounds, although elemental diatomic molecules of nitrogen and ( especially ) oxygen are often used.

Because these experimentally determined BEs are characteristic of specific elements, they can be directly used to identify experimentally measured peaks of a material with unknown elemental composition.

The phenomenon is widely used for elemental analysis and chemical analysis, particularly in the investigation of metals, glass, ceramics and building materials, and for research in geochemistry, forensic science and archaeology.

After the casting, the athame is the tool traditionally used to invoke the elemental guardians of the four directions-also termed " calling the quarters "-typically by drawing elemental pentagrams at each quarter.

Nickel can be used for handling elemental fluorine, owing to the formation of a passivation layer of nickel fluoride.

* As a coating for elemental lithium metal, to prevent oxidation ( mineral oil is also used for this purpose )

This normally results in chromatic aberration – however this effect can, for example, be used to generate an image which provides information on elemental composition, based upon the atomic transition during electron-electron interaction.

Chlorine dioxide is a faster-acting disinfectant than elemental chlorine, however it is relatively rarely used, because in some circumstances it may create excessive amounts of chlorite, which is a by-product regulated to low allowable levels in the United States.

It is used for determining masses of particles, for determining the elemental composition of a sample or molecule, and for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, such as peptides and other chemical compounds.

In addition to the four Elemental Watchtowers, a twenty-square cell known as the Tablet of Union ( aka The Black Cross )( representing Spirit ) completes the representation of the five traditional elemental attributes used in magic-Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Spirit.

Particle-induced X-ray emission or proton-induced X-ray emission ( PIXE ) is a technique used in the determining of the elemental make-up of a material or sample.

PIXE is a powerful yet non-destructive elemental analysis technique now used routinely by geologists, archaeologists, art conservators and others to help answer questions of provenance, dating and authenticity.

Although it provides only an elemental analysis, it can be used to distinguish and measure layers within the thickness of an artifact .</ sup >

This paradigm was highly influential in Medieval natural philosophy, and Paracelsus drew a range of mythological beings into this paradigm by identifying them as belonging to one of the four elemental types.