When the blade becomes dull, it can be quickly reversed or switched for a new one.

When all the individual segments are used, the knife may be thrown away, or, more often, refilled with a replacement blade.

When used offensively, a standard attack frequently employed the reverse or icepick grip, stabbing downward with the blade to increase thrust and penetrative force.

When worn with full armour, the tachi would be accompanied by a shorter blade in the form known as koshigatana (" waist sword "); a type of short sword with no hand-guard ( tsuba ) and where the hilt and scabbard meet to form the style of mounting called an aikuchi (" meeting mouth ").

When beached or in shallow water the tiller was moved to the lower hole, the blade rope was slackened and the rudder head pulled up so the rudder could operate in shallow waters.

When ω is the angular velocity of the turbine, then the blade speed is.

When the print is complete, an electrically neutral soft plastic blade cleans any excess toner from the photoreceptor and deposits it into a waste reservoir, and a discharge lamp removes the remaining charge from the photoreceptor.

When ice skates are sharpened the blade is ground with a stone with a curved surface, dressed to either restore the hollow or provide a different radius.

When the leaf blade is present, there is not always a spore stalk present, and the plants do not always send up a leaf, sometimes going for a year to a period of years living only under the soil, nourished by association with soil fungi.

When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Canadian Defense Production Ministry initiated establishment of a turbine and compressor blade production forge plant, with The Steel Improvement and Forge Company being the successful bidder.

When Sigurd again tests the blade by striking the anvil, the anvil this time is split down to its base, and when Sigurd places a piece of wool in a stream, the current pushing the wool against the sword was enough to cause the blade to cut it in two.

When the name ' boline ' was first used to describe the crescent-shaped blade is not clear.

When not in use the naginata blade would be covered with a wooden sheath ( saya ).

When polished or etched with acid to reveal these features, a distinct boundary is observed between the martensite portion of the blade and the pearlite.

When edge turns the proper color temperature, it is quenched, hardening only the edge, but leaving most of the rest of the blade at the lower hardness.

When humans drive motor boats over shallow seagrass areas, sometimes the blade propeller can tear out or cut the sea grass.

When Wright attempted to retrieve his blade by placing his foot on Bowie's chest and tugging, Bowie pulled him down and disemboweled Wright with his large knife.

When a cable entered the device after sliding down the wing, it triggered a small explosive charge that drove a blade through the cable.

When utilized properly ( parrying by deflecting the sword by striking the flat parts of the blade ), it was more than capable of defeating a katana.

When used for food preparation, the main uses are slicing ( cutting by drawing the blade across the object, applying light pressure ) and chopping ( cutting by pushing the blade through object ), with some piercing ( using the tip to cut through the surface ).

When cutting biomaterials such as tomatoes ( which tend to have a low elastic modulus but high yield strain ), the angle of the blade is less important since the material will bend, but the sharpness of the edge is important because if too much force is required, the material will be squashed rather than cut ( or alternatively a serrated blade could be used ).

When South America became attached to North America creating the Isthmus of Panama, the Arctic region cooled due to the strengthening of the Humboldt and Gulf Stream currents, eventually leading to the glaciations of the Pleistocene ice age, the current interglacial of which is the Holocene Epoch.

When ice forms on the beds, trucks can be driven onto the ice to spread a thin layer of sand that helps to control pests and rejuvenate the vines.

When sea water freezes, the ice is riddled with brine-filled channels which sustain sympagic organisms such as bacteria, algae, copepods and annelids, which in turn provide food for animals such as krill and specialised fish like the Bald notothen, fed upon in turn by larger animals such as Emperor penguins and Minke whales.

When ice melts, it absorbs as much energy as it would take to heat an equivalent mass of water by 80 ° C.

When he captured her with his ice powers, she telepathically showed him his insecurities.

When the ice finally receded from the St. Lawrence valley, the outlet was below sea level, and for a short time the lake became a bay of the Atlantic Ocean, in association with the Champlain Sea.

When the ice sheet disappeared, the shield rose again, a tendency that continues to this day at a rate of about one meter per century.

In the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and what to Drink, author William Schmidt listed the Tom Collins as including :< u > Tom Collins Gin ( 1891 )</ u > The juice of half a lemon in a large glass, a bar-spoonful of sugar, a drink of Tom gin ; mix this well ; 2 lumps of ice, a bottle of plain soda. Mix well and serve.

When they were formed, ice in the soil may have melted, turned the ground into mud, then flowed across the surface.

When the " characteristic freezing point " of a substance is determined, in fact the actual methodology is almost always " the principle of observing the disappearance rather than the formation of ice ", that is, the melting point.

When glaciers covering the north of Britain melted at the end of the last ice age, two things happened to create the Solent.

When this deposition occurs at the base of the moving ice of a glacier, the sediment is called lodgement till.

When the ice is suitable the tour is announced, and starts within 48 hours.

When visible light interacts with the ice crystals in cirrus clouds, it produces optical phenomena such as sun dogs and haloes.

When landmasses are concentrated near the polar regions, there is an increased chance for snow and ice to accumulate.

When the ice melted, the upper Great Lakes emptied into the Niagara river, which followed the rearranged topography across the Niagara Escarpment.

When temperatures are low enough, dew takes the form of ice ; this form is called frost ( frost is, however, not frozen dew ).

When the ice cleared in the spring Hudson wanted to explore the rest of the area, but the crew mutinied on June 22, 1611.

When June arrived, and the ice had still not loosened its grip on the ship, the scurvy-ridden survivors took two small boats out into the sea on 13 June.

When Laurie and Jo go skating, Amy tags along after them, but she arrives at the lake too late to hear Laurie's warning about thinning ice.