The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

In electronic devices, the tiny and delicate active components are embedded within nonconductive epoxy or phenolic plastics, or within baked glass or ceramic coatings.

Enamel paints sometimes contain glass powder or tiny metal flake fragments instead of the color pigments found in standard oil-based paints.

Although crystals were once loaded into glass capillaries with the crystallization solution ( the mother liquor ), a modern approach is to scoop the crystal up in a tiny loop, made of nylon or plastic and attached to a solid rod, that is then flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen.

Such valves must be handled with gloved hands as the salts left on the glass envelope can provide leakage paths for these tiny currents.

To maximize surface area contact of the gas to the liquid, a gas stream is slowly blown into the vessel through the fritted glass tip so that it breaks up the gas into many tiny bubbles.

Sodium hydroxide cleans glass by dissolving a tiny layer of silica, to give soluble silicates.

Components found in dishwasher detergents can chemically scour the glass, causing tiny crystals, which can precipitate further crystal growth that can turn entire glasses cloudy

A shadow mask is a metal plate punched with tiny holes that separate the colored phosphors in the layer behind the front glass of the screen.

A panel typically has millions of tiny cells in compartmentalized space between two panels of glass.

De Wallen consists of a network of alleys containing approximately three hundred tiny one-room cabins rented by prostitutes who offer their sexual services from behind a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights.

A tiny car glass fibre bodied car powered by a rear mounted 346 cc Villiers twin cylinder motorcycle engine, it claimed to seat three people abreast with room for two children in an optional Dicky seat.

Day geckos have toe pads consisting of tiny lamellae which allow them to walk on plain vertical and inverted surfaces like bamboo or glass.

Decorative tilework should be distinguished from mosaic, where forms are made of great numbers of tiny irregularly positioned tesserae in a single colour, usually of glass or sometimes ceramic.

A different spark printer implementation propelled dry toner from a tiny hole in the end of a glass rod, using a high-voltage spark between the platen and print head.

* The car end lexan glass windows open through a few tiny screws on R142s compared to the keyhole on the R142As.

It is threatened primarily by habitat destruction, predators introduced by humans ( such as cats or rats ), as well as by human litter: the Bermuda Skink has tiny claws on its feet, but no friction pads, and when it gets trapped in a cast-away empty glass bottle or soda can, it cannot climb out and thus starves or dies of heat stress or dehydration.

The Wheel appears in many renditions from tiny miniatures in manuscripts to huge stained glass windows in cathedrals, such as at Amiens.

Selection is usually made using a loupe — a special magnifying glass with a transparent base — to examine the tiny prints, still aligned as they are on the negative strips.

Chiral Photonics, Inc. has abstracted the self-assembled structure of the organic CLCs to produce analogous optical devices using tiny lengths of inorganic, twisted glass fiber.

One is grey glass ( black in the film adaptation ) and the other is off-white, with a tiny, pinhole-sized pupil.

Like one of those tiny glass doves Hortense keeps in the living-room cabinet-a breath would knock it over.

At the climax of the movie made from Brown's novel, the camera elaborately moves through the entire glass pyramid from above and then descends beneath the floor below to reveal the supposed hidden chamber under the tiny stone pyramid, containing the sarcophagus with the remains of Mary Magdalene.

These tiny fragments turned up in a collection of Dead Sea Scrolls possessed by the Jordanian Government, and were first published by Milik in 1956.

Up to 3 % can be used for separating very tiny fragments but a vertical polyacrylamide gel is more appropriate in this case.

Excavation of the earth of the altar yielded burnt stones, small animal ( cow and pig ) bones, tiny pottery fragments, iron knives, clay figures, coins from Aegina, a clay figure of a bird, and two small bronze tripods.

Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon ; these were the Bench Crater meteorite ( Apollo 12, 1969 ) and the Hadley Rille meteorite ( Apollo 15, 1971 ).

Under a microscope it becomes clear that Nevis sand is a mixture of tiny fragments of coral, many foraminifera, and small crystals of the various mineral constituents of the volcanic rock of which the island is made.

Other tiny aircraft fragments were found away at Indian Lake, Pennsylvania.

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments ( silt-sized particles ) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

The early stories are held to have a historical basis that was reconstructed centuries later, and the stories possess at most only a few tiny fragments of genuine historical memory — which by their definition are only those points which are supported by archaeological discoveries.

Frangible bullets, made of tiny fragments held together by a weak binding, are often sold as an " ultimate " expanding bullet, as they will increase their effective diameter by an order of magnitude.

In November, 2003 Coalition officials reported a few dozen of the most important items remained missing from the museum's public galleries, along with another 10, 000 other items — most of them tiny and some of them fragments.

Another type of black sand, found on beaches near a volcano, consists of tiny fragments of lava.

With the rotator turned on, the tissue sample is ground by the porcelain pores and the container wall into tiny fragments.

We always sample tiny fragments of sound as a starting point.

( invasion of the Banu Hillal ( 1057 )-Kairouan destroyed, Zirids reduced to tiny coastal strip, remainder fragments into petty Bedouin emirates )

The problem is that the direct irradiation of an intense laser pulse on a macromolecule causes cleavage of the analyte into tiny fragments and the loss of its structure.

As he slumbered in the void it was revealed that he hadn't been thorough enough — tiny fragments of the universe remained and reacted with each other, leading to the creation of the current universe.

It is now well known that tiny fragments of graphene sheets are produced ( along with quantities of other debris ) whenever graphite is abraded, such as when drawing a line with a pencil.

The saw is obliterated into tiny pieces, one of the steely fragments pierces throat ---!

Some varieties include feldspathic greywacke, which is rich in feldspar, and lithic greywacke, which is rich in tiny rock fragments.

Also, when it strikes a hard surface from which a solid bullet would glance off, it fragments into tiny, light pieces and creates much less ricochet danger.

The mirror-work includes large, regular pieces, rather than an intricate mosaic of tiny fragments ; another thing is the superimposition over the mirror-work of brightly painted religious figures made in plaster.

SelectaDNA or Smartwater are such security tags-a forensic fluid which contains millions of tiny fragments which have a unique number called " SIN " (" SelectaDNA identification number "), and registered in a national police database together with the owner's details, is etched into each of those particles.

In 2007, Film and Video Umbrella commissioned Arcangel to produce a new work, a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, using tiny fragments of video, each containing a single note produced by various instruments ( and some performing pets ) to create an arrangement of Bach's Variation no.