After the San Juan Project Water Treatment Plant here, the Rio Grande's flow exceeding that needed for the river's silvery minnow habitat is available for municipal water supply diversion.

These give the leaves the silvery appearance from which the plant gets its name.

Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote of Ruffins in a July 16, 2001 article, stating that " Mr. Ruffins is an unabashed entertainer who plays trumpet with a bright, silvery tone, sings with off-the-cuff charm and never gets too abstruse in his material ".

Very pure gallium metal has a brilliant silvery color and its solid metal fractures conchoidally like glass.

Hafnium is a shiny, silvery, ductile metal that is corrosion-resistant and chemically similar to zirconium ( due to its having the same number of valence electrons and being in the same group ).

Historically this has led to its use for plating metals such as iron and brass, to its use for chemical apparatus, and its use in certain alloys that will retain a high silvery polish, such as German silver.

Ytterbium is a soft, malleable and ductile chemical element that displays a bright silvery luster when in its pure form.

For example, " Winter " is peppered with silvery pizzicato notes from the high strings, calling to mind icy rain, whereas " Summer " evokes a thunderstorm in its final movement, which is why the movement is often dubbed " Storm.

The town takes its name from a native word for the bay in the eastern part of the town: " Assorodus ," meaning " silvery water.

Nickel silver is named for its silvery appearance, but it contains no elemental silver unless plated.

Green arowanas are dark green on the back, silvery or golden green on its sides, and silvery or whitish on its ventral surface, with dark greenish or bluish patches visible through the lateral scales.

When the amalgam is cold it is squeezed through chamois leather to separate the superfluous mercury ; the gold, with about twice its weight of mercury, remains behind, forming a yellowish silvery mass with the consistency of butter.

Police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff spotted what they described as a disc-shaped, silvery object with a bright light emanating from its underside, at about 1000 feet in altitude.

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Silversides, for the silversides, a small fish marked with a silvery stripe along each side of its body.

In south-east Asia, it is called the " money plant " and in the United States it is commonly known as " silver dollars ," " Chinese money ," or " Chinese coins ," because its seed pods have the appearance of silvery coins.

The mineral often has a metallic luster, and its color may range from a silvery white to a brassy yellow.

Silver Fire is an ability granted by Mystra only to the Chosen of Mystra and enables its user to envelop itself in silvery white flames that bestow many potent magical powers.

It is a mainly grey bird with a pinkish breast ; its silvery neck patch and lack of white wing markings distinguish it from its close relative and probable ancestor, the Common Wood Pigeon.

Silverweed leaves are covered in fine silvery hairs that give the plant its name

Following this application, the name " duct tape " came into use in the 1950s, along with tape products that were colored silvery gray like tin ductwork.

The name Argenteuil is recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 697 as Argentoialum, from a Latin / Gaulish root argento meaning " silver ", " silvery ", " shiny ", perhaps in reference to the gleaming surface of the river Seine, on the banks of which Argenteuil is located, and from a Celtic suffix-ialo meaning " clearing, glade " or " place of ".

* Shiner ( fish ), common name used for any of several kinds of small, usually silvery fish

The appearance of the diving bell gave rise to the genus name Argyroneta, from the Greek " argyreios " ( αργυροειδής ), meaning " silvery ", and " netos " ( νήθωσ ) meaning in context: " spun ".

Its members are known by the common name of silversword or greensword due to their long, narrow leaves and the silvery hairs on some species.

Its name is derived from the Greek glaucos ( γλαυκος ) meaning ' gleaming ' or ' silvery ', to describe the appearance of the blue-green color, presumably relating to the sheen and blue-green color of the sea's surface.

In his report Jordan took credit for the name and described the fish as follows: Color, silvery olive ; a broad lemon yellow shade along the sides, lower fins bright golden yellow in life, no red anywhere except the deep red dash on each side of the throat.

The iridescent nacre that lines the inside of the shell varies in color from silvery white, to pink, red and green-red, through to Haliotis iris, which shows predominantly deep blues, greens and purples.

It is a silvery metallic element that must be extracted by electrolysis from a fused salt like calcium chloride.

The colour of the bracts varies from a creamy white to a deep crimson, but the soft pale pink bracts with a silvery sheen are the most prized.

Trout in, or newly returned from the sea, can look very silvery, while the same fish living in a small stream or in an alpine lake could have pronounced markings and more vivid coloration ; it is also possible that in some species this signifies that they are ready to mate.

The striped bass is a typical member of the Moronidae family in shape, having a streamlined, silvery body marked with longitudinal dark stripes running from behind the gills to the base of the tail.

* mithril, a strong, silvery fictional metal from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

The basal foliage is a very conspicuous pale grey or silvery green, from which the stiff, lightly branching flowering stems rise up.

It is freely soluble in water, and is re-crystallized as fine silvery needles from boiling methanol.

They are small primates ( 130mm and 95-300 grams ) with woolly thick fur that ranges from silvery grey to dark brown.

In the hand of a master, a single stroke can produce astonishing variations in tonality, from deep black to silvery gray.

This dark coloring gives way from the shoulders and lower breast to silvery blue.

It became known in the west from imported wares called bai-tong or paktong ( 白銅, literally " white copper "), for which the silvery metal colour was used to imitate sterling silver.

In colour the Greenland cod is generally sombre, ranging from tan to brown to silvery.

At 13. 2 degrees Celsius ( about 56 degrees Fahrenheit ) and below, pure tin transforms from the silvery, ductile metallic allotrope of β-form white tin to brittle, nonmetallic, α-form grey tin with a diamond structure.

The breed has the greying gene ( located on the G locus ) which is a dominant trait, causing the coat colour to change from their birth colours of black ( in blue ) or dark brown ( in sandy and liver ) to a silvery ( for blue ) or mauve ( for liver and sandy ) colour on their bodies with a lighter coloured topknot and legs.

An ostentatiously tangled arrangement of colorful arms emanates from the centre of the bell, much shorter than the silvery, thin tentacles which emanate from the bell's subumbrella.

Pepper ranges from a dark blueish black through to a very light silvery gray, while the mustard can vary from reddish browns to a fawn where the head appears to be almost white.