Bromine is rarer than about three-quarters of elements in the Earth's crust ; however, the high solubility of bromide ion has caused its accumulation in the oceans, and commercially the element is easily extracted from brine pools, mostly in the United States, Israel and China.

Polygyny is the most common form of polygamy ; the much rarer practice of polyandry is the form of marriage in which one woman has two or more husbands at the same time, usually among brothers or males of the same family.

In each case, the rarer of the two most common isotopes of an element has been concentrated for use in nuclear technology:

Only the coronal consonants can be divided into apical ( using the tip of the tongue ), laminal ( using the blade of the tongue ), domed ( with the tongue bunched up ), or subapical ( using the underside of the tongue ), as well as a few rarer orientations, because only the front of the tongue has such dexterity.

The Mintabie Opal Field located approximately 250 km north west of Coober Pedy has also produced large quantities of Crystal opal and also the rarer black opal.

The Fallohides, the least numerous, were an adventurous people that preferred to live in the woods under the Misty Mountains and were said to be taller and fairer ( all of these traits were much rarer in later days, and it has been implied that wealthy, eccentric families that tended to lead other hobbits politically, like the Tooks and Brandybucks, were of Fallohide descent ).

There's none of these so lonely and poor of old but dying has made us rarer gifts than gold.

She has a rarer form of phocoamelia, meaning all of her limbs are affected.

The name ' Baldrick ' is also authentic – but much rarer – and has been dated in Britain all the way back to the Norman Conquest of 1066.

However, William Vennard points out that while most people sound comparatively " breathy " or " hooty " when using falsetto production, there are in rarer cases individuals who have a much stronger falsetto sound production which has more " ring " to it.

Even rarer is a person who has lived to age 115 ;, there are only 27 people in recorded history who have indisputably reached this age.

But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed.

Of course, when first conceded, such an indulgence, and also the privilege annexed of choosing a confessor who had power to absolve from reserved cases, was a much rarer spiritual boon than it has since become.

Its population has in recent decades increased around the eastern Baltic, while it has become rarer at the western end of its range.

In the 1970s and 1980s versions, in the rare event that players were mathematically unable to at least tie their opponent before the opponent has had his or her last turn ( or even rarer, before that point ), the game ended and the remaining categories were left unplayed.

It was only relatively recently that the rarer ruby has been differentiated from the more common spinel.

But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed.

The rarer recessive Lawrence's Warbler has a male plumage which is green and yellow above and yellow below, with white wing bars and the same face pattern as male Golden-winged.

The rarer recessive Lawrence's Warbler has a male plumage which is green and yellow above and yellow below, with white wing bars and the same face pattern as male Golden-winged.

Although rarer than the Doctor of Philosophy, the Doctor of Science research degree has been awarded by institutions such as Columbia University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert Morris University and Tulane University.

: But dying has made us rarer gifts than gold.

As a hymnwriter he has had few equals in England, he wrote Praise God from whom all blessings flow ; it can scarcely be said that even John Keble, though possessed of much rarer poetic gifts, surpassed him in his own sphere.

An untreated black mamba bite has a mortality rate of 100 %, but presently, fatalities have become much rarer due to wide availability of antivenom.

The opposite problem, known as hemeralopia, that is, inability to see clearly in bright light, is much rarer.

The opposite problem, the inability to see in bright light, is known as hemeralopia and is much rarer.

The existence of the Marsh test also served a deterrent effect: deliberate arsenic poisonings became rarer because of the fear of discovery became more present.

One effect is that Scottish flags are rarer than might be expected amongst both sets of supporters ; Celtic fans are more likely to wave the Irish tricolour while Rangers fans tended to wave the Union Flag.

Although rarer on the professional tour as it makes hitting topspin somewhat difficult, there are some notable players who use the eastern grip to great effect.

The rarer extra heart sounds form gallop rhythms and are heard in both normal and abnormal situations.

Similar sounds, although much rarer, have been heard from some of the other Egyptian monuments ( Karnak is the usual location for more modern reports ).

Nasalized versions of other consonant sounds also exist, though they are much rarer than either nasal occlusives or nasal vowels.

Along with much rarer ankylosaurians and pachycephalosaurs, all of these animals would have been prey for a diverse array of carnivorous theropods, including troodontids, dromaeosaurids, and caenagnathids.

If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.

The last four species would be adversely affected by the proposed Yusufeli Dam, which might actually destroy enough habitat to push the two rarer ones over the brink of extinction.

In some rarer cases there were accounts where the familiars would appear at times when they were unwanted and not called upon, for instance the Huntingdonshire witch Elizabeth Chandler noted, in 1646, that she could not control when her two familiars, named Beelzebub and Trullibub, appeared to her, and had prayed for a god to " deliver her therefrom ".

( A " ting marquess had a march that would be one village or, in rarer cases, two or three villages.

Analogous mates on a1 and a8 are rarer, because kingside castling is the more common as it safely places the king closer to the corner than it would had the castling occurred on the queenside.

The initial print run had a black border and the following runs ( December 1994 and 1995 ) had a white border, making the black-bordered cards rarer, even though that color would become the staple of all later sets.

This would tend to preserve rarer morphs from extinction.

In addition to some of her rarer compositions and several tracks that would later receive fuller arrangements on Sobule's next major-label release, Sobule performed offbeat cover versions of such standards as the old Doris Day theme song " Que Sera Sera " and " Sunrise / Sunset " from the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Bare Cadillac chassis could be purchased if a buyer insisted, but the intention was that few would do so. Flamboyant Cadillac dealer in England namely Lendrum & Hartman, ordered two such chassis in even rarer right hand drive ( RHD ) and had Van den Plas ( Belgium ) build a sports sedan ( Eng # 702298, which was successfully shown in various concourse de elegance events in Europe before being bought by the young Nawab of Bahawalpur ); and a limousine ( engine # 702299 ).

Even the most common, the horizontal 2-cent coil, can fetch as much as US $ 2000, while the much rarer, the 1-cent vertical coil, brought $ 130, 000 at an auction in 2009, and the even rarer 2-cent vertical coil ( only eight copies are known ) would surely sell for considerably more, should one become available.

In retrospect we can now recognize that this category covered a heterogeneous collection of disorders which included cases of dominantly inherited diabetes ( the topic of this article, still called MODY today ), as well as cases of what we would now call type 2 diabetes occurring in childhood or adolescence, and a few even rarer types of hyperglycemia ( e. g., mitochondrial diabetes or mutant insulin ).

A rarer indication would be that of a completely virilized XX child with congenital adrenal hyperplasia ( Prader stage 5 ) being raised as a male ; ovaries and uterus must be removed to prevent breast development and menstruation by early adolescence.

The sale was a surprise, because it was much rarer in those days in Japan for the ownership of a professional baseball team to change, not to mention for a large company to sell one of its parts ; Hankyu Railway was thought of as one of the big companies that would never need to do such a thing.

On 25 April 2007, the FWS removed Big Hole River grayling from ESA candidacy based on arguments that ( 1 ) the rarer fluvial populations should not have been " lumped together " with the more common lake-dwelling populations and ( 2 ) the Montana grayling populations are insignificant and their loss would be inconsequential given the presence of thriving populations in Alaska.

Much rarer, most of these would chase the player ( with a couple of exceptions ).

Empress Dowager Bo ( 薄太后 ), known as Consort Bo ( 薄姬 ) when her husband was alive, and more formally as either Empress Dowager Xiaowen ( 孝文太后 ) or ( rarer ) Empress Gao ( 高皇后 ) ( died 155 BC ) was an imperial concubine for Emperor Gao of Han ( Liu Bang ) who would, unanticipated by her, become the mother of an emperor.