A sinter is a mineral deposit that presents a porous or vesicular texture ; Its structure shows small cavities.

It almost always has a fine-grained mineral texture due to the molten rock cooling too quickly for large mineral crystals to grow, although it can sometimes be porphyritic, containing the larger crystals formed prior to the extrusion that brought the lava to the surface, embedded in a finer-grained matrix.

Crystalline candies are not as hard as crystals of the mineral variety, but derive their name and their texture from their microscopically organized sugar structure, formed through a process of crystallization, which makes them easy to bite or cut into.

Successive waves of immigrants have in the past formed coherent ethnic enclaves, some of which continue to contribute to the rich ethnic texture of Worcester today.

Rocks are generally classified by mineral and chemical composition, by the texture of the constituent particles and by the processes that formed them.

Brutalist buildings usually are formed with striking repetitive angular geometries, and, where concrete is used, often revealing the texture of the wooden forms used for the in-situ casting.

The cliffs are composed mainly of soft, white chalk with a very fine-grained texture, composed primarily of coccoliths, plates of calcium carbonate formed by coccolithophores, single-celled planktonic algae whose skeletal remains sank to the bottom of the ocean during the Cretaceous and, together with the remains of bottom-living creatures, formed sediments.

He also created classification schemes for igneous rocks which accounted their mineralogy, texture, and composition, and showed that igneous rocks of different mineralogies could be formed from the same chemical composition, with different conditions of crystallization.

The texture of the snack is formed as a result of contact with hot air, causing steam in the mixture to expand and creating its characteristic texture.

There is also a number of remarkable and valuable small churches built of sedimentary stone quarried to the north of the Elqui River, having a characteristic color and texture formed by myriad small shells.

" Popcorn " texture due to bentonite, formed from volcanic ash, characterizes the Brushy Basin Member.

Salt glaze pottery is stoneware with a glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process.

Sedimentary textures which appear to have formed in the hydrothermal vents themselves are preserved with a brecciated texture ; " geyserite ", a sediment with a botryoidal form reminiscent of modern vent margins, is also found.

The earth kasiṇa, for instance, is a disk in a red-brown color formed by spreading earth or clay ( or another medium producing similar color and texture ) on a screen of canvas or another backing material.

White Rabbit Creamy Candy is white, with a soft, chewy texture, and is formed into cylinders approximately 3 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, similar to contemporary western nougat or taffy.

Both of the rachis have the same length, and the texture is variable ; the near the quill it is rather furry, but the external ends resemble grass.

However, scientists at NASA argue that likely microbial terrestrial contamination found in other Martian meteorites do not resemble the texture of the biomorphs in ALH 84001.

Round-shaped British scones can resemble North American biscuits in appearance, but scones rely on cold butter for their delicate, flaky texture, while biscuits are more often made with animal fat or vegetable shortening and are crumbly rather than flaky.

He is described as being emaciated by troll standards, having a texture and pattern to his hide that makes him resemble a brick wall ( due to being made of " metamorphorical rock ," and having been born in Ankh-Morpork ).

It usually contains no clay minerals, and is only called " clay " because its texture and working properties resemble those of mineral clay.

Oviraptorid eggs are shaped like elongated ovals ( elongatoolithid ) and resemble the eggs of ratite birds ( such as ostriches ) in texture and shell structure.

In different technological applications of Benecol products, the fatty acid part is selected so that the melting properties, texture and other characteristics of the plant stanol ester closely resemble the properties of the fat it replaces.

It is form-fitting at the bodice, and the skirt is designed to resemble a mermaid's tail in silhouette. The skirt may or may not be of the same colour or texture.

" The article states that a mimic's hide is naturally gray in hue, with a smooth very hard outer skin that appears stone-like ; a mimic is able to change the color and texture of its outer surface to resemble wood-grain by shifting a brown pigmented liquid between its interior and exterior body cells to fill the many capillaries lying just beneath the skin surface, while the creature can empty these capillaries to revert to its normal stone-like appearance.

They resemble the tomato in external shape and internal morphology, but also the eggplant for the texture and color of the flesh, and in having a broad velvety cap.

Hufu, a fictional product, was marketed as tofu designed to resemble human flesh in taste and texture.

The taste and texture of kohlrabi are similar to those of a broccoli stem or cabbage heart, but milder and sweeter, with a higher ratio of flesh to skin.

Within the first decades after Triceratops was described, various skulls were collected, which varied to a lesser or greater degree from the original Triceratops, named T. horridus by Marsh ( from the Latin horridus ; " rough, rugose ", suggesting the roughened texture of those bones belonging to the type specimen, later identified as an aged individual ).

" Modern " techniques take advantage of both the canvas texture as well as those of the paint itself.

* Porcelanite is a term used for fine-grained siliceous rocks with a texture and a fracture resembling those of unglazed porcelain.

In thematic structure and instrumental texture he based his pieces on those of Felix Mendelssohn.

Though at that time few games supported large textures and 32-bit color, and those that did generally were too demanding to be run at playable framerates, the features " 32-bit color support " and " 2048x2048 textures " were much more impressive on paper than 16-bit color and 256x256 texture support.

Those sprouted in the dark will be crisper in texture and whiter, as in the case of commercially available Chinese Bean Sprouts, but these have less nutritional content than those grown in partial sunlight.

Abnormal facial proportions, including those typically used by artists to enhance attractiveness ( e. g., larger eyes ), can look eerie with a photorealistic human texture.

Officers ' uniforms differed from those of enlisted personnel by better quality and texture cloth.

The Wheatens seen in Ireland today are of the same size, shape and coat texture as those seen and documented well over 100 years ago.

Naïve realism is distinct from scientific realism, which states that the universe contains just those properties that feature in a scientific description of it ; not properties like colour per se but merely objects that reflect certain wavelengths owing to their microscopic surface texture.

A large number of the tools, including those for texture and model compilation, require varying levels of text-editor scripting from the user before they are executed at the command line with sometimes quite lengthy console commands.

In the Introduction to The Shape of the Journey ( Copper Canyon Press, 1998 ), a collection drawn from his first eight books of poetry, he writes: " This book is the portion of my life that means the most to me .... in poetry our motives are utterly similar to those who made cave paintings or petroglyphs, so that studying your own work of the past is to ruminate over artifacts, each one a signal, a remnant of a knot of perceptions that brings back to life who and what you were at that time, the past texture of what has to be termed as your ‘ soul life .’" Poetry suffuses everything Harrison writes.

* Determine the uv-values of the corners of the pixel, use those to calculate the area of the pixel, and figure out how many pixels of exactly the same size would take up the whole texture.

Heated sauce sundaes are those in which the flavored sauce or syrup is heated before being poured over the ice cream, creating appealing differences in temperature as well as texture.

The leaves are similar to those of the yew, strap-shaped, 1-4 cm long and 2-3 mm broad, with a soft texture ; they are green above, and with two blue-green stomatal bands below.

Graphics were very similar to those used in id Software's Wolfenstein 3D games, with perpendicular walls, and no texture on the floors or ceilings.

Acrocanthosaurus teeth were wider than those of Carcharodontosaurus and did not have the wrinkled texture that characterized the carcharodontosaurids.

It was dedicated to gaming performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards.

Graphics were still 8-bit, but due to the additional CD storage space available, instead of using a single palette set during gameplay, each of the six four-level sets had its own 256-color set, and there were effectively six texture sets, each of which had basically the same textures but optimized them specifically for those colors and textures most used in the four-level set.

The fourth berry we tasted, later identified as " Reveille ," topped my list for its firm texture and those stirring bugle riffs of flavor.

The formal elements, those aesthetic effects created by design, upon which figurative art is dependent, include line, shape, color, light and dark, mass, volume, texture, and perspective, although it should be pointed out that these elements of design could also play a role in creating other types of imagery -- for instance abstract, or non-representational or non-objective two-dimensional artwork.

The noodles of Hamhung naengmyeon are usually made from potato or sweet potato starch, so the noodles are very chewy in texture compared to those of Pyongyang naengmyeon.

The term is broadly inclusive as it encompasses marks which do not fall into the conventional set of marks ( e. g. those consisting of letters, numerals, words, logos, pictures, symbols, or combinations of one or more of these elements ), and therefore includes marks based on appearance, shape, sound, smell, taste and texture.