On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.

Basically, this means that simpler processing equipment ( the mixture has good flowing characteristics ) and less external heat ( the foaming reaction is exothermic and develops internal heat ) are required in one-shot foaming, although, at the same time, the problems of controlling the conditions of one-shot foaming are critical ones.

In a typical application -- the making of rigid urethane foam sandwich panels -- an amount of foam mixture calculated to expand 10 to 20% more than the volume of the panel is poured into the panel void and the top of the panel is locked in place by a jig.

The bread baked from this mixture is light in color and fragrant in aroma.

For, in the process of decanting, the bottle is only tilted once instead of several or more times at the table: hence, a minimum of the undesirable mixture of wine and dregs.

It is an over-all impression Mr. Sansom strives for, an impression compounded of visual details, of a savory mixture of smells, of much loving attention to architecture and scenery, of lights and shadows, of intangibles of atmosphere and of echoes of the past.

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.

The mixture is molded by the frame, and then the frame is removed quickly.

The same mixture to make bricks, without the straw, is used for mortar and often for plaster on interior and exterior walls.

Depending on the form into which the mixture is pressed, adobe can encompass nearly any shape or size, provided drying time is even and the mixture includes reinforcement for larger bricks.

An alloy is a mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point, but a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases.

However, for most alloys there is a particular proportion of constituents ( in rare cases two )— the eutectic mixture — which gives the alloy a unique melting point.

The term alloy is used to describe a mixture of atoms in which the primary constituent is a metal.

If there is a mixture of only two types of atoms, not counting impurities, such as a copper-nickel alloy, then it is called a binary alloy.

If there are three types of atoms forming the mixture, such as iron, nickel and chromium, then it is called a ternary alloy.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

Most yeasted pre-ferments fall into one of three categories: " poolish " or " pouliche ", a loose-textured mixture composed of roughly equal amounts of flour and water ( by weight ); " biga ", a stiff mixture with a higher proportion of flour ; and " pâte fermentée ", which is simply a portion of dough reserved from a previous batch.

White light is a roughly equal mixture of the entire spectrum of visible light with a wavelength in a range from about 380 or 400 nanometers to about 760 or 780 nm.

He performed in the genre of avanspettacolo, a vaudevillian mixture of music, ballet and comedy preceding the main act ( hence its name, which roughly translates as " before show ").

Silibinin, a semipurified fraction of silymarin, is primarily a mixture of 2 diasteroisomers, silybin A and silybin B, in a roughly 1: 1 ratio.

Slab of manganese ore showing an intimate mixture of hausmannite and psilomelane in a roughly zonal arrangement and a radiating mass of white barite at the center.

The album contains a mixture of post-punk and electronic styles, roughly divided between the two sides.

This clumpy red-coloured mixture is then formed into a large sausage-like shape of roughly eight inches in length, no different from its black, haggis and white pudding relatives.

Anaxagoras theory was that the original state of the world was a roughly even mixture of all opposites, and that it was the effect of the action of nous ( intelligence or mind ) that led to the partial separation of such opposites, hot from cold, land from water, rarefied from dense.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

For three centuries Mexico was just another kingdom ( the New Spain ) of the Spanish Empire, during which time its indigenous population fell by more than half and was partially replaced by Spaniards and the now predominant Mestizos or mixture of Indigenous and Spanish populations.

In the North West of England a mixture of half a pint of mild and half a pint of bitter is known as a " mixed ".

About half of this material was ejected in a series of pyroclastic flows of a very hot,, mixture of noxious gas, pumice, and ash that covered the surrounding area hundreds of feet ( meters ) deep.

In the 1960s, the railway enthusiasts ' book " Four feet eight and a half and all that " was published in a comparable style by G. R. Mills, with the same mixture of puns and humour, which will be best appreciated by those who know their subject already.

Peire Bremon Ricas Novas uses the term mieja chanso ( half song ) and Cerverí de Girona uses a similar phrase, miga canço, both to refer to a short canso and not a mixture of genres as sometimes supposed.

The invention of the cocktail " Earthquake " or Tremblement de Terre is attributed to Toulouse-Lautrec: a potent mixture containing half absinthe and half cognac ( in a wine goblet, 3 parts Absinthe and 3 parts Cognac, sometimes served with ice cubes or shaken in a cocktail shaker filled with ice ).

In contrast to the cultivated west coast of the island, the eastern half is a mixture of freshwater lochs, moorland, bog and deeply indenting sea lochs.

While the second half of the program was the same kind of straightforward, nonsensical humor that had always been his hallmark, the first half of the new show entitled " Ik heb je lief " ( a deeper statement than " I love you ", not unlike " I love thee ") consisted only of songs, in a mixture of simple jazz and French-style " chanson ", that were tributes to love and, indirectly, to his late wife.

Half and half refers to various beverages or liquid foods made of an equal-parts mixture of two substances, including dairy products, alcoholic beverages, and soft drinks.

The United States dairy product known as half and half is a mixture of one part milk to one part cream.

In some cafés in Brussels, a " half en half " ( Dutch for " half and half ") is a mixture of white wine and champagne.

In England, a half and half may also mean a mixture of mild ale and bitter.

In Switzerland, and more particularly in Valais, a half & half is a mixture of dry and sweet liquor of the same fruit.

In the German-speaking part of Switzerland, especially in the north-eastern part, a mixture of apple and orange juice is known as " halb halb " (" half half ", sometimes written 1 + 1 ).

The traditional adobe roof has been generally constructed using a mixture of soil / clay, water, sand, and other available organic materials.

Dysprosium is obtained primarily from monazite sand, a mixture of various phosphates.

In Dakar it is not uncommon to see houses made of recycled materials standing atop a mixture of garbage and sand which serves as a foundation.

This process involves sintering a mixture of clay and limestone to about, then grinding it into a fine powder which is then mixed with water, sand and gravel to produce concrete.

Under a microscope it becomes clear that Nevis sand is a mixture of tiny fragments of coral, many foraminifera, and small crystals of the various mineral constituents of the volcanic rock of which the island is made.

Many schools and playgrounds in North America have replaced sand around play structures with a wood chip mixture, as it is cheaper and does not stain clothing.

Given time, the simple mixture of sand, silt, and clay will evolve into a soil profile which consists of two or more layers called horizons that differ in one or more properties such as texture, structure, colour, porosity, consistency, and reaction.

" Ultramarine rich in silica " is generally obtained by heating a mixture of pure clay, very fine white sand, sulfur and charcoal in a muffle-furnace.

While the physical character is of secondary importance, as generous crops are grown in sandy soil as well as in heavy loams, still the ideal soil is a sandy loam, i. e., a mixture of organic matter, clay and sand.

For oil sand plants, a mixture of oil sand and water may be pumped over a long distance to release the bitumen by attrition.

Ancient Roman concrete was a mixture of lime mortar, sand with stone rubble, pozzolana, water, and stones, and stronger than previously-used concrete.

Concrete is a mixture of coarse ( stone or brick chips ) and fine ( generally sand or crushed stone ) aggregates with a binder material ( usually Portland cement ).

The shores in this area are a mixture of intertidal mud, sand, and salt flats, estuarine waters, intertidal marshes, freshwater ponds, swamps, and forested peatlands.

Dredging vessels are used to pump a mixture of sand and water to a beach where it is spread by bulldozers.

Where large bulk ore bodies are to be mined at great depth, or where leaving pillars of ore is uneconomical, the open stope is filled with backfill, which can be a cement and rock mixture, a cement and sand mixture or a cement and tailings mixture.

The seabed of the central part and Dvina Bay is covered in silt and sand, whereas the bottom of the northern part, the Kandalaksha Gulf and Onega Bay is a mixture of sand and stones.

A mudbrick is a firefree brick, made of a mixture of clay, mud, sand, and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.

This method involved spreading tar on the subgrade, then placing a typical macadam layer and then sealing the macadam with a mixture of tar and sand.

To counter this, 173. 000 cubic meters per year of a mixture of sand and gravel with an average grain diameter of 20 mm ( corresponding to the local sediment transport capacity ) has been dumped into the river, since 1978, using two motorized barges.

The islands are generally hilly with the coasts a varied mixture including cliffs and sand dunes, beaches and lagoons.