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.

To some degree, these patterns can be linked to the geographical resources themselves, with abundant shoreline, generally calm seas, and steady winds favoring the use of sailing vessels, and fertile valleys and plains — at least in the Greater Sunda Islands — permitting irrigated rice farming.

Therefore, the absence of life in Venus, with a somewhat similar composition to Earth's primitive conditions or the absence of life on Mars, given the proposed " resilience " of life in space, damages the panspermia theory, at least based on observations of our own Solar System-the theory suggests that life would be more abundant in the Solar system.

Thulium is the second least abundant of the lanthanides ( promethium is only found in trace quantities on Earth ).

The ytterbium concentration is low, because the element is found among many other rare earth elements ; moreover, it is among the least abundant ones.

Those again that contain least silica and most magnesia and iron, so that quartz is absent while olivine is usually abundant, form the " basic " group.

Nevertheless, global geochemical maps of titanium obtained from the Clementine mission demonstrate that the lunar maria possesses a continuum of titanium concentrations, and that the highest concentrations are the least abundant.

Experiments have documented that olivine at high pressures ( e. g., 12 GPa, the pressure at depths of about 360 kilometers ) can contain at least as much as about 8900 parts per million ( weight ) of water, and that such water contents drastically reduce the resistance of olivine to solid flow ; moreover, because olivine is so abundant, more water may be dissolved in olivine of the mantle than contained in Earth's oceans.

The Akamas Centaurea ( Centaurea akamantis ) of Cyprus is almost extinct, while the western Caucasus endemics C. leptophylla and C. straminicephala are at least very rare and C. hedgei and C. pecho from the same region are certainly not abundant either.

The primary basis for the township ’ s planning, zoning and land use decisions for at least the last 20 years has been the protection and preservation of their abundant and very special natural resources.

Daily care of her abundant and extremely long hair, which in the time turned from the dark blonde of her youth, to chestnut brown, took at least three hours.

The IUCN lists it as a species of " least concern ", noting that it is relatively widespread and abundant, but that information from southern Mexico is poor.

Various populations of pastoralists have left paintings of abundant wildlife, domesticated animals, chariots, and a complex culture that dates back to at least 10, 000 BCE in Northern Niger and neighboring parts of Algeria and Libya.

Globally, common throughout its range, only becoming scarce at the edge of the distribution The IUCN, Birdlife International and The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) all list Aegithalos caudatus as a ‘ species of least concern ’, currently under little or no threat and is reasonably abundant .< ref > Bird, J. and Butchart, S. B. I.

This principle can be summed up in the aphorism, " The availability of the most abundant nutrient in the soil is only as good as the availability of the least abundant nutrient in the soil.

Estrone is the least abundant of the three hormones ; estradiol is present almost always in the reproductive female body, and estriol is abundant primarily during pregnancy.

: Historically both pinniped species were abundant natives in the harbor until hunting and other human activity extirpated them from the area by at least the late 19th century.

Although IgE is typically the least abundant isotype-blood serum IgE levels in a normal (" non-atopic ") individual are only 0. 05 % of the Ig concentration ,< ref > compared to 10 mg / ml for the IgGs ( the isotypes responsible for most of the classical adaptive immune response )-it is capable of triggering the most powerful inflammation reactions.

In many real datasets, the least abundant species is represented by a single individual, and then the effective number of species would equal the number of individuals in the dataset.

Compared to other large waterbirds like cranes, spoonbills and other species of storks, Black-necked Storks are least abundant in locations with a high diversity of waterbird species.

Basophils are one of the least abundant cells in bone marrow and blood ( occurring at less than two percent of all cells ).

For the pulp method, the paper is left in water at least overnight to soak or boiled in abundant water until the paper dissolves in a pulp.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

That is questionable, to say the least.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

It is puzzling to the occidental mind ( to mine at least ) to assign `` sacredness '' to animal, insect, and plant life.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

Milton himself, uncommunicative as he is about his lesser and nonliterary activities, at least gives us some evidence that he was a great walker, under any and all conditions.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.