Upon contact, nematocysts on the tentacle fire into the prey, and the tentacle itself coils around the prey.

Upon contact with air, it begins to tarnish by forming a complex mixture of compounds depending on the conditions.

Upon arriving in New York, he spent most of his first weeks in town trying to get in contact with Charlie Parker, despite being advised against doing so by several people he met during his quest, including saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.

Upon losing the last, he or she is taken out of the game and in three-four players game, turned into walking bombs that explode when they come in contact with other players.

Upon his move to Bash Street Academy, ' Erbert was given contact lenses to improve his sight.

Upon loss of coolant the decay heat can raise the rods above 2200 degrees Celsius, whereupon the hot Zirconium alloy metal used for casing the nuclear fuel rods spontaneously explodes in contact with the cooling water or steam, which leads to the separation of water into its constituent elements ( hydrogen and oxygen ).

Upon hearing that the woman had been interviewed, Hopkins wrote a letter to a contact asking whether he would be given a " good welcome ".

Upon contact with their ligand, TNF receptors also form trimers, their tips fitting into the grooves formed between TNF monomers.

Upon contact with another species, the Oankali divide themselves in three groups: Akjai, who will keep their forms and will not participate in the trade ; Toaht, who will take part but will not settle the planet ; and Dinso, who will come down and " harvest " the planet as explained.

Upon contact with water, the glue is loosened and the decal can be removed from its backing ; overly long exposure, however, dissolves the glue completely causing the decal to fail to adhere.

Upon contact, the ship emits a transport beam and a mysterious woman appears to the Enterprise bridge.

Upon leaving he helped young chairman Steve Gibson contact his replacement Bryan Robson.

Upon doing so, the telecommunication function of the interocitor is activated, and Meacham establishes contact with Exeter, the party responsible for sending him the device.

Upon contact with air, the liquid sodium reacted with oxygen and moisture in the air, filling the room with caustic fumes and producing temperatures of several hundred degrees Celsius.

Upon hearing Boas ' story, Martins contacted Dr. Olavo Fontes of National School of Medicine of Brazil ; Fontes was also in contact with the American UFO research group APRO.

Upon entering they find themselves trapped in an old earth-style hotel / casino called the Royale where they are cut off from contact with their ship.

Upon successfully retrieving him, Genghis Khan made contact with the Shah.

Upon first contact with humans, the Centauri representatives told the Earth representatives that Earth must have been a lost Centauri colony, though that theory was quickly discounted.

Upon Sverre's initial contact, the Birkebeiners had been reduced to a ragtag army of brigands and vagabonds with no more than 70 men, according to the saga.

# Upon receiving the invitation to participate, the recipient was asked whether he or she personally knew the contact person described in the letter.

Upon encountering new problems, however, Tier III personnel must first determine whether or not to solve the problem and may require the customer ’ s contact information so that the technician can have adequate time to troubleshoot the issue and find a solution.

Upon contact, the cnidocil will immediately initiate a process which ejects the venom-coated filament from its capsule and into the target.

Upon contact with the planet eating Mellenares the Blood Nations reached an uneasy alliance with the Earth military forces and joined in combat against the mutual enemy.

Upon buckling, the hammer is pivoted forward by the spring and strikes an electrical contact which registers the key press.

Upon intelligence that the formidable agitator was to favor them with his presence, the benighted inhabitants of Pawtuxet, alas, gave their allegiance to Massachusetts and asked that colony to expel the newcomers.

Upon such hearing, the Commission may affirm, modify, or revise its former action with respect to such claim, including a denial or reduction in the amount theretofore allowed with respect to such claim.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Upon which the detective bureau despatched rifle squads to prevent trouble if O'Banion should send his gunmen out to deal with the hijacking policemen.

* Upon his adoption by Caesar, he took Caesar's name and become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in accordance with Roman adoption naming standards.

A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 ( tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ).

A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.

Upon Paul's arrival in Jerusalem, he was confronted with the rumor of teaching against the Law of Moses ().

Upon Gassmann's death on 22 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.

Upon returning to Vienna following his success in Paris, Salieri met and befriended Lorenzo Da Ponte and had his first professional encounters with Mozart.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is " a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue ", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

Upon heating, α-berkelium transforms into another phase with an fcc lattice ( but slightly different from β-berkelium ), space group Fmm and the lattice constant of 500 pm ; this fcc structure is equivalent to the closest packing with the sequence ABC.

Upon return the air in the area was still filled with toxic smoke from the World Trade Center fires that persisted until January 2002.

Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.

A Married Women ( Restraint Upon Anticipation ) Act was passed in 1949 “ to equalise, to render inoperative any restrictions upon anticipation or alienation attached to the enjoyment of property by a woman ,” while the Married Women ( Maintenance ) Act of 1949 was enacted with the intention of improving the adequacy and duration of financial benefits for married women.

Upon the end of the meeting, Dzerzhinsky reported to the Sovnarkom with the requested information.

Upon the motion to certify the class, the defendants may object to whether the issues are appropriately handled as a class action, to whether the named plaintiffs are sufficiently representative of the class, and to their relationship with the law firm or firms handling the case.

Upon his death, he left a country doubled in size ( mostly through the addition of land in today's Ukraine, then the Duchy of Halicz ), prosperous, wealthy and with great prospects for the future.

Upon the reopening of the Warner animation department, Jones was rehired and reunited with most of his unit.

Upon his arrival back in Montreal, Thompson retired with a generous pension from the North West Company.