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Its high impact strength, even at low temperatures, resists chipping, cracking, and crazing, according to Du Pont.
No attempts to measure the radio emission of the remaining planets have been reported, and, because of their distances, small diameters, or low temperatures, the thermal radiation at radio wave lengths reaching the earth from these sources is expected to be of very low intensity.
Because oxygen concentration in the water increases at both low temperatures and high flow rates, aquatic amphibians in these situations can rely primarily on cutaneous respiration, as in the Titicaca water frog and the hellbender salamander.
This is usually because of adverse conditions such as low water temperatures which may inhibit the production of thyroxine or prevent the larva from reacting to the hormone in the normal way.
Transportation technologies on a remote area like Antarctica need to be able to deal with extremely low temperatures and continuous winds to ensure the travelers ' safety.
Perfect crystals never occur in practice ; imperfections, and even entire amorphous materials, simply get " frozen in " at low temperatures, so transitions to more stable states do not occur.
At very low temperatures in the vicinity of absolute zero, matter exhibits many unusual properties, including superconductivity, superfluidity, and Bose – Einstein condensation.
One technique used to reach very low temperatures ( thousandths and even millionths of a degree above absolute zero ) is adiabatic demagnetisation, where the change in magnetic field on a magnetic material is used to provide adiabatic cooling.
The trans isomer of cycloheptene is only stable at low temperatures.
The cities of Kamloops and Penticton, and rural towns of Oliver, and Osoyoos have some of the warmest and longest summer climates in Canada, although their temperature ranges are exceeded by the warmer Fraser Canyon towns of Lillooet and Lytton, where shade temperatures on summer afternoons often surpass but with very low humidity.
These effects are still not yet fully understood ; it is even possible that they also control superconductivity even at low temperatures for some materials.
At sufficiently low temperatures, electrons near the Fermi surface become unstable against the formation of Cooper pairs.
Because the pairing increases this energy barrier, kicks from oscillating atoms in the conductor ( which are small at sufficiently low temperatures ) are not enough to affect the condensate as a whole, or any individual " member pair " within the condensate.
This energy gap is highest at low temperatures but vanishes at the transition temperature when superconductivity ceases to exist.
* Due to the energy gap, the specific heat of the superconductor is suppressed strongly ( exponentially ) at low temperatures, there being no thermal excitations left.
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong winds and low temperatures.
However, despite the success of Drude's free electron model, it had one notable problem, in that it was unable to correctly explain the electronic contribution to the specific heat of metals, as well as the temperature dependence of resistivity at low temperatures.
The technique involves using optical lasers to create an interference pattern, which acts as a " lattice ", in which ions or atoms can be placed at very low temperatures.
For the Sun and stars with low temperatures, the prominence of the H and K lines can be an indication of strong magnetic activity in the chromosphere.
In addition to igniting spontaneously in air, it reacts explosively with water even at low temperatures, more so than other members of the first group of the periodic table.
The reaction with solid water occurs at temperatures as low as.
Deserts usually have a large diurnal and seasonal temperature range, with high or low, depending on location daytime temperatures ( in summer up to, and low nighttime temperatures ( in winter down to due to extremely low humidity.

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Their metabolic rate is low and as a result, their food and energy requirements are limited.
The color of amethyst has been demonstrated to result from substitution by irradiation of trivalent iron ( Fe < sup > 3 +</ sup >) for silicon in the structure, in the presence of trace elements of large ionic radius, and, to a certain extent, the amethyst color can naturally result from displacement of transition elements even if the iron concentration is low.
In combination with the relatively low coefficient of linear thermal expansion ( 11. 4 × 10 < sup >− 6 </ sup > K < sup >− 1 </ sup >), these characteristics result in a unique stability under conditions of thermal loading.
However, Pfeiffer had little vision for what the combined companies should do, or indeed how the three dramatically different cultures could work as a single entity, and Compaq struggled as a result of a strategy that had the company caught in between the low end and high end.
As a result, speech can be encoded at high quality using a relatively low bit rate.
Beginning in the 1960s, water inflow to the Dead Sea from the Jordan River was reduced as a result of large-scale irrigation and generally low rainfall.
Substantial weather changes frequently occur at three to four day intervals as a result of mid-latitude storm tracks, which is where low and high pressure extratropical disturbances occur.
The term " calcium-sparing diuretic " is sometimes used to identify agents that result in a relatively low rate of excretion of calcium.
Class-A amplifiers are often used in output stages of high quality op-amps ( although the accuracy of the bias in low cost op-amps such as the 741 may result in class A or class AB or class B, varying from device to device or with temperature ).
The result is low efficiency and high heat dissipation.
Apprentices ( Ph. D .) student must work for years at very low wages assisting their Masters ( faculty ) and must produce an approved master work ( Dissertation ) before they can go work for others ( tenure track appointments virtually require a Ph. D., and any Ph. D. candidate who leaves their master prior to getting their Ph. D .- trying to transfer to another Ph. D. program-will have to start all over again, or give up ever becoming a guild member with the result of permanent impovrishment in the insecure life of an adjunct faculty member ).
This type of gin is sometimes aged in wooden barrels, retains varying degrees of flavour from the grain as a result of its distillation method and may be bottled with a strength as low as 30 % ABV.
A deteriorated peptide structure would result in a low gelling strength, which is not generally desired.
Hephaestus ’ s ugly appearance and lameness is taken by some to represent arsenicosis, an effect of low levels of arsenic exposure that would result in lameness and skin cancers.
This has been steadily dropping for a number of years ( 20 % since 1999 ), probably as a result of low cost airlines.
As a result of the profound economic and social changes induced by postwar industrialization, including low birth rates, an aging population and thus a shrinking workforce, during the 1980s Italy became to attract rising flows of foreign immigrants.
LEDs used outdoors, such as traffic signals or in-pavement signal lights, and that are utilized in climates where the temperature within the luminaire gets very hot, could result in low signal intensities or even failure.
Usually, doctors will start with a low dose, e. g. 3x20mg pyridostigmine, and increase until the desired result is achieved.
For low risk births, compared with obstetricians, midwives offer lower maternity care cost, lower intervention rates, reduced mortality and morbidity as a result of fewer interventions, and fewer recovery complications.
Thus, a too high or too low temperature will result in stellar instability.
For example, in the homonuclear diatomic molecules of the first ten elements, the molecular orbitals derived from the p < sub > x </ sub > and the p < sub > y </ sub > atomic orbitals result in two degenerate bonding orbitals ( of low energy ) and two degenerate antibonding orbitals ( of high energy ).
A different such electron-phonon interaction is thought to cause a very different result at low temperatures, that of superconductivity.
The airmass makes life difficult as a result of low visibility which hampers transportation.
As a result Olney's population was principally of a low income status ; Cowper is said to have described his neighbours as ' the half-starved and ragged of the earth '.

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