There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.

An unusual increase in the number of bronchial arteries present within the substance of the lung was noted.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

In substance, said the Court, there was no transfer of equitable title.

At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.

There was, therefore, more musical substance in the concert than might have been the case otherwise.

Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr ( diatomaceous earth ) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as ' dynamite '.

Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with various nitrocellulose compounds, similar to collodion, but settled on a more efficient recipe combining another nitrate explosive, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite.

In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).

Thomson theorized that multiple electrons revolved in orbit-like rings within a positively charged jelly-like substance, and between the electron's discovery and 1909, this " plum pudding model " was the most widely accepted explanation of atomic structure.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Ambergris is the waxy aromatic substance created in the intestines of sperm whales and was used in making perfumes both in ancient times as well as modern.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.

Fleming was the first to discover the properties of the active substance, giving him the privilege of naming it: penicillin.

Bogers and Fijneman were charged with distributing a scheduled substance ( DMT ); however, the prosecution was unable to prove that the use of ayahuasca by members of the Santo Daime constituted a sufficient threat to public health and order that it warranted denying their rights to religious freedom under ECHR Article 9.

Friedrich Oskar Giesel independently discovered actinium in 1902 as a substance being similar to lanthanum and called it " emanium " in 1904.

In 1789, French nobleman and scientific researcher Antoine Lavoisier discovered the law of conservation of mass and defined an element as a basic substance that could not be further broken down by the methods of chemistry.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

At this time the Theodosian Walls kept the city impregnable from the land, while a newly discovered incendiary substance known as " Greek Fire " allowed the Byzantine navy to destroy the Arab fleets and keep the city supplied.

He at first believed he had discovered a new hormone, but was proved wrong when every irritating substance he injected produced the same symptoms ( swelling of the adrenal cortex, atrophy of the thymus, gastric and duodenal ulcers ).

For example, semantic externalists maintain that the word " water " referred to the substance whose chemical composition is H < sub > 2 </ sub > O even before scientists had discovered that chemical composition.

The first discovered magnetic substance, magnetite, is a ferrite and was originally believed to be a ferromagnet ; Louis Néel disproved this, however, after discovering ferrimagnetism.

Before them, in 1784, the English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish had discovered that air contains a small proportion of a substance less reactive than nitrogen.

Klaproth assumed the yellow substance was the oxide of a yet-undiscovered element and heated it with charcoal to obtain a black powder, which he thought was the newly discovered metal itself ( in fact, that powder was an oxide of uranium ).

Catalase was first noticed in 1818 when Louis Jacques Thénard, who discovered H < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 2 </ sub > ( hydrogen peroxide ), suggested its breakdown is caused by an unknown substance.

At the International Tuberculosis Congress in 1905 he announced that he had discovered " a substance proceeding from the virus of tuberculosis.

In 1934, a Hungarian physician, Paul György discovered a substance that was able to cure a skin disease in rats ( dermititis acrodynia ), this substance he named vitamin B < sub > 6 </ sub >.< ref > Paul György ( 1934 ) " Vitamin B < sub > 2 </ sub > and the pellagra-like dermatitis in rats ," Nature, vol.

In one part of Whitney Pier, residents of Frederick St. discovered contamination within several homes and in surrounding soil, including a toxic orange substance oozing into local basements.

Professor Shintaro Kodama, a disciple of Ikeda, discovered in 1913 that dried bonito flakes contained another umami substance.

Scrooge McDuck outbid the Brutopian government by paying one trillion dollars and six kitchen sinks for a sample of the recently discovered substance of bombastium.

In 1826 he discovered in seawater a substance which he recognized as a previously unknown element and named bromine.

New research from The University of Western Ontario has discovered a substance in tangerine skins that not only prevents obesity in mice, but also offers protection against type 2 diabetes, and even atherosclerosis, the underlying disease responsible for most heart attacks and strokes.

In 1898, French physicists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie had discovered that pitchblende, an ore of uranium, contained a substance — which they named radium — that emitted large amounts of radioactivity.

In the course of this survey, in 1839 Gesner discovered the bituminous asphalt substance albertite, which he named after Albert County, New Brunswick where it was found.

The substance is named as such because it was first discovered near the river Tiber in Italy.

Melatonin is related to the mechanism by which some amphibians and reptiles change the color of their skin and, indeed, it was in this connection the substance first was discovered.

Sent to the fictional, former soviet region of Volgia, the player embarks on a mission to investigate a newly discovered substance, Blue Nephrine.

CRP was so named because it was first discovered as a substance in the serum of patients with acute inflammation that reacted with the C-( capsular ) polysaccharide of pneumococcus.