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The red glow from the cove had died out of the sky.
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A few snowflakes sifted down through that theatrical red glow, languid as falling feathers.
The glow of phosphorus itself originates from oxidation of the white ( but not red ) phosphorus — a process now termed chemiluminescence.
The visual sense is usually isolated by creating a soft red glow which is diffused through half ping-pong balls placed over the recipient's eyes.
In his 1967 spy thriller An Expensive Place to Die, Len Deighton misidentifies the Flemish coast tram: " The red glow of Ostend is nearer now and yellow trains rattle alongside the motor road and over the bridge by the Royal Yacht Club ..."
Their distinctive orange, red, or purple glow during operation indicates the presence of gas ; electrons flowing in a vacuum do not produce light within that region.
Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction.
Even when the thermite is hot enough to glow bright red, it will not ignite as it must be at or near white-hot to initiate the reaction.
The wok is heated to a dull red glow.
* Emits a red glow.
" The red glow helps scientists " fingerprint " blue diamonds, allowing them to " tell the real ones from the artificial.
" The red glow indicates that a different mix of boron and nitrogen is within the stone, according to Jeffrey Post in the journal Geology.
For example, Henry Irving's 1892 King Lear offered spectacles such as Lear's death beneath a cliff at Dover, his face lit by the red glow of a setting sun ; at the expense of cutting 46 % of the text, including the blinding of Gloucester.
In one final struggle against Mola Ram for the Sankara stones, Indiana invokes an incantation to Shiva, causing the stones to glow red hot.
* Calcium sulfide with strontium sulfide with bismuth as activator, ( Ca, Sr ) S: Bi, yields blue light with glow times up to 12 hours, red and orange are modifications of the zinc sulfide formula.
Later during the month he appeared as ageing and tired, covered with the colours of glow ; gold, black and red.
The gunboats ' ninth shot, a " hot shot " ( a cannon ball heated to a red glow ), landed in the fort's powder magazine.
The formations appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun.
Comet Encke's meteoroid trail is the diagonal red glow
In 1862, Elihu Burritt, the American Consul in Birmingham, described the region as " black by day and red by night ", because of the smoke and grime generated by the intense manufacturing activity and the glow from furnaces at night.
It quantifies how objects at low temperatures radiate very little, hot objects glow a dull red and emit a perceptible amount of heat, and very hot objects ( such as the sun ) are dazzlingly bright yellow or blue-white.
While most marine bioluminescence is green to blue, the Black Dragonfish produces a red glow.
In practice, virtually all solid or liquid substances start to glow around, with a very dull red color, when no chemical reactions take place that produce light as a result of an exothermic process.
The word incandescent is also used figuratively to describe a person who is so angry that they are imagined to glow or burn red hot or white hot.
Beaver Hateman was holding a huge lighted cigar in his hand, and the wind made it glow so that everyone could see in the sky what looked like a slowly soaring red light.
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A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.
The men in Pettigrew's were tired from a night's drinking, their faces red and baggy.
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
After a time, he straightened again, brushing the red Permian dust from his hands, slapping it from his six-dollar levis and his tailored, twenty-five-dollar shirt.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
An incoherent, puzzled sound came from the red mouth.
He must take it from `` the red box ''.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
At dinner the courses were carried in by tall cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped with tufts of feathers, marching in pairs like guards from a stage tragedy.
He often donned their tribal costumes, such as the one featuring a tall, black sheepskin hat from the top of which dangled a little red bag ornamented by a chain of worsted lace and tassels ; ;
He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.
The eight green columns, I learned, came from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the others, red, from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.
Though by no means an ideal procedure, a red wine may similarly be brought from the cellar to the dining room and opened twenty minutes or so before serving time.
Very old red wines often require several hours of aeration, and any red wine, brought from the cellar within half an hour of mealtime, should be uncorked and allowed some air.
Many people use wicker cradles for old red wine, lifting the bottle carefully from the bin into the cradle and eventually to the table, without disturbing the sediment.
The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.
I could not keep my eyes away from the boy with the red hair.
The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.
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