When the abalone shell is struck, the tiles slide instead of shattering and the protein stretches to absorb the energy of the blow.

When the sperm breaks through the hard outer shell of the egg a new cell embryo is formed, which, in humans, grows to full size in 9 months.

When the hoop is placed around the drum head and shell and tightened down with tension rods, the tension of the head can be adjusted.

When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper.

When a language is used to give commands to a software application ( such as a shell ) it is called a scripting language.

When a user logs in to the system, a shell program is automatically executed.

When fired, the container burst open during passage through the bore or at the muzzle, giving the effect of an over-sized shotgun shell.

When it was finally adopted by the British Army in 1803, it immediately acquired the inventor's name: the shrapnel shell.

:* When one types a command to the OS-9 shell, it will look first in the current module directory for a module of the specified name and will use it ( and increase its link count ) if found, or it will look on disk for an appropriately named file if not.

When the fruit ripens, the shell changes from green to an autumnal yellow / red, and abruptly splits part way open ( see photo ).

When the litigation concluded, Lemoine resigned from SACEM and set up a shell company, Arima, with Alexandre Taverne for collecting Ravel's royalties.

When mature they still contain some water and can be used as seednuts or processed to give oil from the kernel, charcoal from the hard shell and coir from the fibrous husk.

When the seed germinates, the root ( radicle ) of its embryo pushes out through one of the eyes of the shell.

When served freshly shucked ( opened ) and iced, one may find a liquid inside the shell, called the liqueur.

When the amoebas inside the bowel of an infected person are ready to leave the body, they group together and form a shell that surrounds and protects them.

When an area is constructed specifically as a terrain, the playing surface is typically loose gravel, decomposed granite, brick grog or crushed sea shell.

When fighting broke out on the Tel Aviv beach he ordered it be taken by force and to shell the ship.

When a hatchling decides to leave the shell, it has a small sac protruding from its plastron.

When they attach to the shell of a scallop, for instance, barnacles benefit by having a place to stay, leaving the scallop presumably unaffected.

When the shell has more moisture content and is more tender, the fruit becomes less convenient to shell.

When studying the whole molluscan animal is included as well as studying the shell, then the study is known as malacology ; a person who studies mollusks is known as a malacologist.

When a shell from a British warship shot away the flagstaff, he recovered the flag, raised it on a temporary staff, and held it under fire until a new staff was installed.

When seen from above, the shell is darker in color and marked with irregular stripes, which helps it blend into the dark water below.

When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).

When the upcurrent amount of sediment is greater, sand or gravel banks will tend to form as a result of deposition.

When the Pilcomayo River overflows its low banks, it feeds the Patiño Estuary ( Estero Patiño ).

When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used in highly fertile areas, such as the banks of the Nile where the annual flood rejuvenates the soil, to create drills ( furrows ) to plant seeds in.

When Lancia pioneered the V6 in 1950, they used a 60 ° angle between the cylinder banks and a six-throw crankshaft to achieve equally spaced firing intervals of 120 °.

When Mr Gladstone visited the North, you well remember when word passed from the newspaper to the workman that it circulated through mines and mills, factories and workshops, and they came out to greet the only British minister who ever gave the English people a right because it was just they should have it ... and when he went down the Tyne, all the country heard how twenty miles of banks were lined with people who came to greet him.

When he arrived at the rain-swollen banks of the Guadalupe River near Gonzales, there were just eighteen Texans to oppose him.

When payment is deferred on any such instrument, typically an interest rate is higher than the standard interest rates paid by banks, or charged by the central bank on its money.

When used in the broad sense, the " means of production " includes the " means of distribution " which includes stores, banks, and railroads.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.

When the charter for the Second Bank of the United States expired in 1836, " wildcat " banks resumed unsound and unregulated lending.

When additional subscriptions were made from other sources, federal ownership in the banks was retired.

When Emperor Diocletian divided the province of Dacia into Dacia Ripensis ( at the banks of the Danube ) and Dacia Mediterranea, Serdica became the capital of Dacia Mediterranea.

When we arrived at a lovely creek, which because it was the Friday of Sorrows Friday before Palm Sunday, the 3rd of April 1776, we called the Arroyo de los Dolores ... On the banks of the Arroyo ... we discovered many fragrant chamomiles and other herbs, and many wild violets.

When a bond issue is underwritten, one or more securities firms or banks, forming a syndicate, buy the entire issue of bonds from the issuer and re-sell them to investors.

When crossing streams, bridges may or may not be desirable, depending on the size of the stream and the depth of its banks.

When a river breaks its banks and floods, it leaves behind layers of rock and mud.

When the Fed cleared the group of Arab investors to buy First American, it did so on condition that they supplement their personal funds with money borrowed from banks with no connection to BCCI.

When Father Eusebio Francisco Kino visited in 1699, the older site along fertile banks of the Gila River had been abandoned by another early tribe called the Opas, who instead used the river to irrigate their crops at a nearby rancheria.

When it was suggested that the town be renamed with " Ford ", Mr. Ford declined and instead Ways Station was renamed " Richmond Hill " after the site of Ford's home on the banks of the Ogeechee River.

When the small village was incorporated into Rensselaer County on 13 April 1827, there were about 100 people living in the area, mostly along the banks of the river.

When the group reached the Tioga River, they established a supply camp upon its banks.

When spring came the high water of the Duchesne River overflowed it's banks flooding the town.

When the Suebi invaded the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis, the Visigoths attacked and defeated them 5 October 456 at the Campus Paramus, twelve miles from Astorga, on the banks of the Órbigo ( Urbicus ), subsequently occupying the province as nominal foederati of the Empire.