Greg rumbled down the rough metal taxi strip, and one by one the seven members of his flight fell in behind him.

He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.

" Comic strip historian Allan Holtz described how strips were provided as mats ( the plastic or cardboard trays in which molten metal is poured to make plates ) or even plates ready to be put directly on the printing press.

To reduce resistance due to skin effect, in high-power inductors such as those used in transmitters the windings are sometimes made of a metal strip or tubing which has a larger surface area, and the surface is silver-plated.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

The recording medium was a thin strip of one half inch ( 12. 65 mm ) wide metal, consisting of nickel-plated bronze ( called Vicalloy ).

* Edge: A strip of metal, tuned normally to just less than 90-degrees, that runs the length of either side of the board.

A ski is narrow strip of wood, plastic, metal or combination thereof worn underfoot to glide over snow.

The zoetrope worked on the same principles as the phenakistoscope, but the pictures were drawn on a strip which could be set around the bottom third of a metal drum, with the slits now cut in the upper section of the drum.

A Kofler bench is a metal strip with a temperature gradient ( range from room temperature to 300 ° C ).

For aquatinting a printmaker will often use a test strip of metal about a centimetre to three centimetres wide.

The metal strip will then be removed and the acid washed off with water.

Bessemer also obtained a patent in 1857 for the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers-a forerunner of today's continuous casting processes and remarkably, Bessemer's original idea has been implemented in the direct continuous casting of steel strip.

It fell into ruin, leading people to strip it of some of its usable stone, metal, and woodwork.

The first skate to use a metal blade was found in Scandinavia and was dated to 200 and was fitted with a thin strip of copper folded and attached to the underside of a leather shoe.

The modern event sees athletes run down a strip of track, plant the pole in the metal box, and vault over the horizontal bar before letting go of the pole and falling backwards onto the landing matress.

For many years now Shubb has had available a fifth-string capo, consisting of a narrow metal strip fixed to the side of the neck of the instrument, with a sliding stopper for the string.

Some of them have become the prey of metal hunters, who strip the RTGs ' metal casings, regardless of the risk of radioactive contamination.

Other non-rusty metal combinations ( such as magnesium-copper ) are more effective ; for example, using a magnesium strip instead of zinc increases the voltage from 0. 9 volts to 1. 3 volts with magnesium.

This strip is then rolled ( possibly between heavy metal plates ) until reaching a tapered-cylindrical form.

Each solution has a corresponding metal strip in it, and a salt bridge or porous disk connecting the two solutions and allowing SO < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup > 2 −</ sup > ions to flow freely between the copper and zinc solutions.

The layers of the detector pixels are separated with a strip of metal.

In these devices, humidity is absorbed by a salt-impregnated paper strip attached to a metal coil, causing it to change shape.

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

Experiments have been conducted to attempt the synthesis of ununennium ( Uue ), which is likely to be the next member of the group, but they have all met with failure .< ref name =" link "> However, ununennium may not be an alkali metal due to relativistic effects, which are predicted to have a large influence on the chemical properties of superheavy elements.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

However other alloys such as low tin bronze were also used and they vary depending on local cultural attitudes, the purpose of the metal and access to zinc, especially between the Islamic and Byzantine world.

The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards.

In the normal state of a metal, electrons move independently, whereas in the BCS state, they are bound into Cooper pairs by the attractive interaction.

Typically they purchase coins that are composed of rare or precious metals, or coins that have a high purity of a specific metal.

However, metallic bonds are more collective in nature than other types, and so they allow metal crystals to more easily deform, because they are composed of atoms attracted to each other, but not in any particularly-oriented ways.

The machines are released on a deserted island, the idea being that once the available metal is all used and they start fighting each other, natural selection will enhance their design.

* Advanced composite ceramic and metal matrices have been designed for most modern armoured fighting vehicles because they offer superior penetrating resistance against shaped charges such as high explosive antitank ( HEAT ) rounds and kinetic energy penetrators.

In many classical sites, sectioned columns were carved with a centre hole or depression so that they could be pegged together, using stone or metal pins.

When they struck it they knocked many electrons out of the metal.

It was quickly recognised that they are the particles that carry electric currents in metal wires, and carry the negative electric charge of the atom.

When metal ions are reduced from ionic solution, they form a pure metal surface on the cathode.

The research team reported witnessing some of Geller's trademark metal spoon-bending performances, but admitted that they were unable to conduct adequately controlled experiments to confirm any paranormal hypothesis about them.

Dog tags are usually fabricated from a corrosion-resistant metal or alloy such as aluminium, monel or stainless-steel, although, during wartime, they have been made from whatever metals were available.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

The livestock will naturally remain within the territory in which they are released, although walls and cattle grids ( a pit in the road covered with metal bars-impassable to hoofed animals ) provide an additional level of control.

Cosmas and Damiano, in Rome, are important examples of Roman metal work of the best period ; they are in two leaves, each with two panels, and are framed in bronze.

Instead, they cause electromagnetic field behavior that only efficiently transfers power to a receiver very close to the source, such as the magnetic induction inside an electrical transformer, or the feedback behavior that happens close to the coil of a metal detector.

During the age when the whole point of money was that it was made of precious metal, there was frequent trimming or shaving of coins once they were released to the public, even though people were expected to accept the diminished coins at their face value.