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The translucent wings of the plane made it very difficult for ground based observers to detect a Taube at an altitude above 400 m. The French also called this plane " the Invisible Aircraft ", and it is sometimes also referred to as the " world's very first stealth plane ".
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Its translucent wings are imbued with the essence of frigidity, and the flapping of its wings chills the air, causing the conversion of water particles in the air into snow or ice, causing snow to fall when it flies overhead.
At miniature size, the Wasp grew a pair of translucent insect wings from her back, a result of genetic modifications provided by Hank Pym.
The male's chunky white body ( about 5 cm long ), combined with the brownish-black bands on its otherwise translucent wings, give it a checkered look.
These moths are sometimes brightly colored and often have translucent eyespots or " windows " on their wings.
Dawn is a forest fairy with two translucent wings, pointy ears, and a pair of antennae on her head.
The wings are usually translucent with a slight iridescence ; some have green wing veins or a cloudy brownish wing pattern.
The antennae are long and segmented and the greyish translucent, many veined wings are often mottled with white dots.
It has translucent whitish wings of length 4. 5-5. 5 cm ; the hindwing underside has brownish or pale gray scaling along the veins.
The male has translucent wings which each have a broad, dark iridescent blue-black spot ( or band ) across the outer part.
The female has translucent, pale green iridescent wings with a white patch near the tip ( a pseudopterostigma ), and a metallic green body.
Some – in particular Stegelytrinae – have largely translucent wings and resemble flies at a casual glance.
The male has translucent wings, and the female is drab brown and gray, with yellow puffs on her legs.
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Modern commercial domino sets are usually made of synthetic materials, such as ABS or polystyrene plastics, or Bakelite and other phenolic resins ; many sets approximate the look and feel of ivory while others use colored or even translucent plastics to achieve a more contemporary look.
Unlike graupel, which is made of rime, and ice pellets, which are smaller and translucent, hail stones – on Earth – consist mostly of water ice and measure between in diameter.
This means the hailstone is made of thick and translucent layers, alternating with layers that are thin, white and opaque.
* Gelatin, a translucent substance extracted from the collagen inside animals ' connective tissue, made from bones and pig skin
Glass block or glass brick are blocks made from glass and provide a translucent to clear vision through the block.
It can also be made white, pale green, blue, gold, pink ( rare ), reddish-yellow or opaque to transparent / translucent.
The calotype process produced a translucent original negative image from which multiple positives could be made by simple contact printing.
They are made of ingredients wrapped in a translucent rice flour or wheat starch skin, and are different from jiaozi found in other parts of China.
The electric scoreboard and the all encircling roof, made from aluminium and translucent glass, were added in 1963.
There Messiaen became fascinated with drama, reciting Shakespeare to his brother with the help of a home-made toy theatre with translucent backdrops made from old cellophane wrappers.
It is made of small cubes of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly made from red algae or seaweed.
It receives paint well and, if treated properly, can be made translucent.
The console has a four-way mini-joystick controller, two main buttons (' A ' and ' B '), two shoulder buttons on each side of the SMC slot (' L ' and ' R ') and two other menu buttons on each side of the screen (' SELECT ' and ' START '), made from a softer, translucent rubber.
The outer walls are made of translucent veined marble panels quarried from Danby, Vermont, which transmit subdued lighting and provide protection from direct sunlight.
During the early period they usually consisted of a blue glass base with a white overlying layer, but those made during the later period usually have a colourless background covered with a translucent coloured layer.
They are made of mostly translucent or transparent materials, which glow in the ultraviolet light that is used to light their scenes.
Typical features of chashitsu are shōji windows and sliding doors made of wooden lattice covered in a translucent Japanese paper ; tatami mat floors ; a tokonoma alcove ; and simple, subdued colours and style.
Speleothems made of pure calcium carbonate are a translucent white color, but often speleothems are colored by minerals such as iron, copper or manganese, or may be brown because of mud and silt particulate inclusions.
When Zener cards were first used, they were made out of a fairly thin translucent white paper.
The translucent white syrup is boiled until it becomes golden brown, and then made into bite-sized pieces.
Most of the sand, made of 98 % translucent, rounded-grain quartz, was transported from coastal sand dunes to the west, in what is now central Nevada.
The bulk of slimline cases are made with translucent or transparent polystyrene, and are available in multiple colors.
Each drawing is made on a square piece of translucent film representing a 25 square metre grid square.
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This distinction reflects the rarity of the respective stones in ancient times, as well as their quality: all are translucent with fine color in their purest forms, except for the colorless diamond, and very hard, with hardnesses of 8 – 10 on the Mohs scale.
The fruit flesh is translucent, whitish or very pale pink, with a sweet, mildly acidic flavor very reminiscent of grapes.
" The pale yellow and red varieties have very little iron and are translucent.
Parian marble, which is white and translucent ( semi-transparent ), with a coarse grain and a very beautiful texture, was the chief source of wealth for the island.
The leaf tissue ranges from very coarse, almost leathery in the case of the Cinnamon fern ( Osmundastrum cinnamomeum ), to delicate and translucent, as in the case of the genus Leptopteris.
Pumice is composed of highly microvesicular glass pyroclastic with very thin, translucent bubble walls of extrusive igneous rock.
HTPB is a translucent liquid with a very similar color to wax paper ; it is highly viscous.
The paler orange parts are translucent clay mixed with a very small amount of orange.
The more common later issues were larger " picture label discs " made of solid colored opaque, translucent or transparent plastic, with the recording in a band surrounding a very large label that carried the animation graphics.
These snails have a shell which is very lightweight and translucent, with a sunken spire.
Nephrite can be found in a translucent white to very light yellow form which is known in China as mutton fat jade, in an opaque white to very light brown or gray which is known as chicken bone jade, as well as in a variety of green colours.
For instance, I intentionally used a very sensuous, translucent silicon rubber to make the Entrails Carpet.
This makes the wood become brightly coloured ( various shades from translucent yellow to dark red ) and very aromatic with a brittle, glassy feel.
Sociologists have argued against this theory, however, pointing out that untucked style was very common in pre-colonial southeast-and south-Asian countries, and that the use of thin, translucent fabric developed naturally given the heat and humidity of the Philippines.
The leaves are deciduous, alternate, simple ovate with a markedly lop-sided base, < 10 cm long and < 7 cm broad, comparatively thin, often almost papery in texture and very translucent, smooth above with a downy underside.
They were created out of thin, translucent leather ( usually taken from the belly of a donkey ). They were painted with vibrant paints, thus they cast a very colorful shadow.
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