Unpatinated shakudō

Unpatinated or repolished shakudō will not spontaneously patinate in air.

Larger objects ( such as vases ) described as shakudō may be mislabeled, especially if the glossy blue-black color is not evident.

Due to the expensive gold content, shakudō is normally limited to accents or small items such as tsuba.

Modern jewelry artisans have revived the use of shakudō as a striking design element, especially for the technique of mokume-gane.

Backwards words can be indicated by words like " climbing ", " retreating ", or " ascending " ( depending on whether it is an across clue or a down clue ); letters can be replaced or removed with indicators such as " nothing rather than excellence " ( meaning replace E in a word with O ); the letter I can be indicated by " me " or " one ;" the letter O can be indicated by " nought " or " a ring " ( since it visually resembles one ); the letter X might be clued as " a cross ", or " ten " ( as in the Roman numeral ), or " an illiterate's signature ", or " sounds like your old flame " ( homophone for " ex ").

depends on the way the sound is written in standard English spelling, as also whether the sound is written with the ordinary " z " letter or with a special backwards " z " letter ( which replaces the " s " of standard spelling where it represents a voiced sound, and which visually resembles an angular form of the letter " s ").

However, visually the location often resembles an industrial Northern town and may have its roots in how Croydon, Penge and the towns between them appeared in the 1950s.

Though it resembles a Python visually, it is substantially different internally.

Features Automorph technology and comes with a telescoping sword ( officially, though the " blade " visually resembles a rifle barrel ).

The similarity of the effective potential ‘ seen ’ by the outer electron to the hydrogen potential is a defining characteristic of Rydberg states and explains why the electron wavefunctions approximate to classical orbits in the limit of the correspondence principle .< ref name =" Classical "> In other words, the electron's orbit resembles the orbit of planets inside a solar system, much like the obsolete but visually useful Bohr and Rutherford models of the atom used to show.

Though visually appealing with water " flowing " throughout various people in the video, the band consider it a failure because they believe it resembles a television advert.

The front half of the vehicle visually resembles that of the Jeep CJ and the rear half of the vehicle is taken from the Chevrolet S10 Pickup truck, although the frame and construction of the vehicle is mostly built from the latter of the two.

It visually resembles an RPK, which may make identifying enemy snipers / designated marksmen more difficult.

The show earned a bronze medal at MICCA Finals, and was once again visually designed by Nicholas McKenzie.

Jessica Gallagher became the first Australian woman to win a medal, taking bronze in the slalom for the visually impaired.

It is at least 110 times visually more luminous than the Sun, but this underestimates its strength as much of the " light " it gives off is in the infrared ; total ( bolometric ) power output is about 180 times that of the Sun.

Studies suggest that knowledge of its existence and anatomy is scant in comparison to that of other sexual organs, and that more education about it could help alleviate social stigmas associated with the female body and female sexual pleasure ; for example, that the clitoris – and the vulva in general – are visually unappealing ; that female masturbation is taboo ; or that women's orgasms are something that " men are expected to master and control ".

Neither of the Air Force fighter pilots saw anything exit the airliner, either visually or on radar, nor did they see a parachute open ; but at night, with extremely limited visibility and cloud cover obscuring any ground lighting below, an airborne human figure clad entirely in black clothing could easily have gone undetected.

Samuel Fuller's brutal, visually energetic films such as Pickup on South Street ( 1953 ) and Underworld U. S. A. ( 1961 ) earned him a unique reputation ; his advocates praise him as " primitive " and " barbarous ".

The new polyurethane elastic bumpers were integrated into the nose and tail and covered in body-coloured plastic ; an unusual feature for the time that aided the car visually and reduced its drag.

Binary stars are classified into four types according to the way in which they are observed: visually, by observation ; spectroscopically, by periodic changes in spectral lines ; photometrically, by changes in brightness caused by an eclipse ; or astrometrically, by measuring a deviation in a star's position caused by an unseen companion.

Chinese characters represent whole morphemes rather than individual sounds, and consequently are visually far more complex than European scripts ; in some cases their pictographic origins are still visible.

Louis Braille (, ; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852 ) was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired.

They are modelled visually by equal-sized squares with a color on each edge which can be arranged side by side ( on a regular square grid ) so that abutting edges of adjacent tiles have the same color ; the tiles cannot be rotated or reflected.

The excipients can include diluents, binders or granulating agents, glidants ( flow aids ) and lubricants to ensure efficient tabletting ; disintegrants to promote tablet break-up in the digestive tract ; sweeteners or flavours to enhance taste ; and pigments to make the tablets visually attractive.

An additional " white giant " of type A7 III is the primary of θ² Tauri, a binary system that includes a less massive companion of spectral type A ; this pair is visually associated with θ¹ Tauri, one of the four red giants, which also has an A-type binary companion.

Wellsville changed very little visually during the twentieth century ; the borough's appearance has remained that of a nineteenth-century community, complete with brick sidewalks and Gothic Revival and Greek Revival houses.

Two assumptions underpinned the British approach to HAA fire ; first, aimed fire was the primary method and this was enabled by predicting gun data from visually tracking the target and having its height.

Speedy clearly states that he is Green Arrow's " ex-partner ", and is visually designed as a slightly older, better built version of his Teen Titans incarnation-his costume is the same ; he is voiced by Mike Erwin here as well.

Shade-dwelling genera usually have broad, net-veined leaves, fleshy fruits with animal-dispersed seeds, rhizomes, and small, inconspicuous flowers ; genera native to sunny habitats usually have narrow, parallel-veined leaves, capsular fruits with wind-dispersed seeds, bulbs, and large, visually conspicuous flowers.

To take a fairly specific example: suppose that at some point the previous day Davidson had looked at a glass marble on a shelf ; unbeknownst to him there was another, visually identical glass marble hidden right behind it.

For this reason, he believed in the intimate unity between humans and other species in the animal world ; this was visually reflected in his art through the iconography of the horned humanoid figures.

; Model visually: Use diagrams to represent all major components, users, and their interaction.

The poor design and low-quality construction of the concrete, 20-storey flats led to innumerable social and health problems in the area ; many of the blocks developed mold and structural problems, and the design prevented residents from visually controlling their internal and external spaces, adding to the social issues.

She changes visually when she walks into the Magic Box, a store owned by Anya and Giles, telekinetically retrieves dozens of dark magic books from the shelves, and leeches the words from the pages with her fingertips.

Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus " the gothic gloominess of Arlington mansion "; the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter ; even a single image where " Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things.

It was after sunset and the aircraft was flying over a dark Arabian Sea, leaving the aircrew unable to visually cross-check their AI instrument readings with the actual horizon outside the cockpit windows.

The yellows, dark blues, and blacks used to decorate this chamber are visually striking and unusual among the tomb decorations in the Valley.

They originated before widespread artificial illumination, to allow the time to be determined in the dark, and were also used by the visually impaired.

Lighting, in particular, was used to establish a dark, fearsome setting for the forbidden land, while the protagonist's sword would provide a means of navigation that was " direct and only expressible visually ".

Among the highlights of his career, he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the visually innovative 2001: A Space Odyssey and Bob Fosse's dark musical exploration of the end of Weimar Germany, Cabaret.

The upgrade made the old section lighter, and visually similar to the new section, as it was previously painted in dark red.