All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

Since we are considering here relatively small diameter ( 1 - 1.5 inches ) fiber plates, their average thickness can be kept below 1/4 inch and their internal losses may be assumed as 15 percent ( per plate ).

The largest applications for metallic antimony are as alloying material for lead and tin and for lead antimony plates in lead-acid batteries.

Other meals are still served in a traditional manner on carved wooden plates.

) and ceramic or metal plates are common among police forces, security staff, corrections officers and some branches of the military.

Picadas, which are consumed at home or in bars, cafés, " cafetines " and " bodegones " are also popular ; they consist of an ensemble of plates containing cubes of cheese ( typically from Mar del Plata or Chubut ), pieces of salame, olives in brine, french fries, maníes ( peanuts ), etc.

* Bains-marie can be used in place of chafing dishes for keeping foods warm for long periods of time, where stovetops or hot plates are inconvenient or too powerful.

It has even been suggested that the original bony plates of all the vertebrates are gone and that the present scales are just modified teeth, even if both teeth and the body armor have a common origin a long time ago.

The great edition, of which the text and apparatus appeared in 1869 and 1872, was called by himself editio viii ; but this number is raised to twenty or twenty-one, if mere reprints from stereotype plates and the minor editions of his great critical texts are included ; posthumous prints bring the total to forty-one.

Such plates are known commonly as small arms protective inserts ( SAPIs ).

Both are valued for their abrasion resistance, and hence find use in applications such as the wear plates of crushing equipment in mining operations.

These clutches are usually made up of a stack of alternating plain steel and friction plates.

No pressure on the lever means that the clutch plates are engaged ( driving ), while pulling the lever back towards the rider will disengage the clutch plates through cable or hydraulic actuation, allowing the rider to shift gears or coast.

Knife resistant armours are designed to defend against knife attacks, some of these use layers of metal plates, mail and metallic wires.

Reynolds found that if a porous plate is kept hotter on one side than the other, the interactions between gas molecules and the plates are such that gas will flow through from the cooler to the hotter side.

These conditions are met in two places on Earth ; in the lithospheric mantle below relatively stable continental plates, and at the site of a meteorite strike.

Moreover, the efficiencies of the vapor-liquid contact devices ( referred to as " plates " or " trays ") used in distillation towers are typically lower than that of a theoretical 100 % efficient equilibrium stage.

In some tissues proliferating cells are restricted to specialised areas, such as the growth plates of bones.

On some doors, especially antique ones, the battens are replaced with iron bars that are often built into the hinges as extensions of the door-side plates.

The doors of the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem ( 6th century ) are covered with plates of bronze, cut out in patterns.

In the HTST process, milk is forced between metal plates or through pipes heated on the outside by hot water, and is heated to 71. 7 ° C ( 161 ° F ) for 15 – 20 seconds.

In 1987 Bill Elliot's asphalt blistering qualifying time at Talladega brought about a change at superspeedways ( Daytona and Talladega ). Such high speeds and Bobby Allison's car going airborne into the catch-fence and injuring fans forced NASCAR to implement power-reducing measures, one of which was the mandated implement of below carburetor restrictor plates.

At first, the German mercenaries seemed unstoppable ; all blows rebounded from their armor plates, and Charles was forced to commit his second battle.

However, even the largest CCD formats ( e. g., 8192x8192 pixels ) still do not have the detecting area and resolution of most photographic plates, which has forced modern survey cameras to use large CCD arrays to obtain the same coverage.

Magma may be forced through weaknesses in the continental crust caused by the collision of the tectonic plates.

He would also refuse to be served with silver cups, plates, and utensils, on grounds that slaves were forced to dig such precious minerals and gems for the rich.

Digital techniques rendered stripping less necessary, but what has forced increasing numbers to abandon it completely is the introduction of " platesetters ", which put pages directly onto printing plates ; these plates cannot be adjusted with a sharp knife.

Human Rights Watch also documented the common practice of " identity cleansing ": refugees expelled toward Albania were frequently stripped of their identity documents and forced to remove the license plates from their vehicles.

This group performed several spectacular acts of sabotage ; among them smuggling out plates for the printing of Norwegian kroner from the Norwegian Central Bank and blowing up the office for Norwegian forced labour, thereby stopping the Nazis ' plan of sending young Norwegian men to the Eastern Front.

Many of Jayasimha-II's generals, called Mahasamantas and Dandanayakas paid with their lives for the intransigence of their inept king, as described in the Tiruvalangadu plates of Rajendra I. Rajendra routed Jayasimha thoroughly with the result the Chalukya king ran away from his capital and was forced to flee and rule from Etagiri. Rajendra Chola I describes his victory over Jayasimha as under: " the seven and a half lakshas of Iratta-padi, ( which was ) strong by nature, ( through the conquest of which ) immeasurable fame arose, ( and which he took from ) Jayasimha, who, out of fear ( and ) full of vengeance, turned his back at Muyangi and hid himself ".

The mountain was formed during the Cretaceous period, some 70 million years ago, when platetechtonic processes forced the African and European continental plates upwards, creating spectacular mountainous landscapes such as that of the Montgó.

Cuirasses and helmets were manufactured in Japan as early as the 4th century. Tankō, worn by foot soldiers and keikō, worn by horsemen were both pre-samurai types of early Japanese armour constructed from iron plates connected together by leather thongs.

Kusari was typically made with rings that were much smaller than their European counterparts, and patches of kusari were used to link together plates and to drape over vulnerable areas such as the underarm.

Conceptually, it consists of two conducting plates separated by a thin insulating dielectric layer ; in practice, thin metal foils are coiled together, increasing the surface area per unit volume and therefore the capacitance.

Today, most modern factory-made machetes are of very simple construction, consisting of a blade and full-length tang punched from a single piece of flat steel plate of uniform thickness ( and thus lack a primary grind ), and a simple grip of two plates of wood or plastic bolted or riveted together around the tang.

Carburizing thin iron bars or plates forms a layer of harder, high carbon steel on the surface, and early bladesmiths would forge these bars or plates together to form relatively homogeneous bars of steel.

A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart ; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together.

Zoram, discovering Nephi's trick, goes to flee, but is persuaded by Nephi to travel with Lehi and his family and they return together with the plates.

This is because they quickly disarticulate ( disconnect from each other ) once the encompassing skin rots away, and in the absence of tissue there is nothing to hold the plates together.

The early Roman ballistae were made of wood, and held together with iron plates around the frames and iron nails in the stand.

The flattened plates, which each antenna terminates, are fitted together to form a club.

The feet were carved in stone and covered with thin bronze plates riveted together.

Individually cast curved bronze plates square with turned in edges were joined together by rivets through holes formed during casting to form a series of rings.

* which includes black-and-white photographic plates and which also include Yasser Arafat, together with an index.

As the plates draw together, more wavelengths are excluded and the vacuum energy decreases.

The calculation that underlies the Casimir experiment, a calculation based on the formula predicting infinite vacuum energy, shows the zero-point energy of a system consisting of a vacuum between two plates will decrease at a finite rate as the two plates are drawn together.

Vertical concrete plates are put together so as to allow the least space in between them, and are rooted firmly in the ground.

Along convergent plate boundaries, plates move together at rates that vary from a few mm to over ten cm per year.

The plates are held together by various means, depending on species, in some cases being solidly fused.

Cells are usually made of a light and durable polyamide ( nylon ), with multiple nickel-cadmium plates welded together for each electrode inside.

Then, in the form of plates rivetted together and made watertight, it was used to form the hull itself.

Most upper body protectors also include a spine protector that comprises plastic or metal reinforced plastic plates, over foam padding, which are joined together so that they articulate and move with the back.