While they indicate the arrival of precipitation ( rain ), cirrus clouds themselves produce only fall streaks ( falling ice crystals that evaporate before landing on the ground ).

While kinetic inhibitors work by slowing down the kinetics of the nucleation, anti-agglomerants do not stop the nucleation, they rather stop the agglomeration ( sticking together ) of gas hydrate crystals.

While crystallization of the polymer can degrade performance, many of the salts used to carry charge can also serve as a kinetic barrier to the formation of crystals.

While birefringence is often found naturally ( like anisotropic crystals ), there are several ways to create it in optically isotropic materials:

While his crystals were growing, Rabi read James Clerk Maxwell's 1873 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, which inspired an easier method.

While quartz typically forms prismatic ( elongate, prism-like ) crystals, in tiger's eye the original fibrous habit of crocidolite is preserved.

While entirely amorphous carbon can be produced, most amorphous carbon actually contains microscopic crystals of graphite-like, or even diamond-like carbon.

While the basin is flooded, some of the salt is dissolved ; it is redeposited as clean crystals when the water evaporates.

While certain Elves can be used immediately, the larger Elves need to be fed crystals in order to be used.

While cool, the polymer is in a crystalline state, with the carbon forced into the regions between crystals, forming many conductive chains.

While the slow formation of iron crystals preserves the electrodes, it also limits the high rate performance: these cells charge slowly, and are only able to discharge slowly.

While flooded, some of the salt is dissolved, then is redeposited as clean, sparkling crystals when the water evaporates.

While investigating a shuttle crash, Kup determined that the craft had been torn apart by death crystals from the monster known as Chaos.

While the pump creates a high-pressure stream of inert crystals, such as aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, sodium chloride, and sodium bicarbonate, to abrade the skin, the vacuum removes the crystals and exfoliated skin cells.

While attempting to escape, the dilithium crystals, needed to travel at warp speed, have been fused and are useless.

While the solution is supersaturated, if a seed crystal ( undissolved sucrose ) falls into the mix, or if the solution is agitated, the dissolved sucrose crystallizes to form large, crunchy crystals ( which is how rock candy is made ).

While these powerful weapons are a great strength, they can also be a weakness since they are dependent on a supply of the rare crystals.

) While in enemy territory, a duelist can wreak some havoc, namely the physical attack and stealing mana crystals and shards, but the trespasser is unable to cast spells or shields.

While subsequently head of the Instrumentation Lab at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Winterthur, he pioneered a new measurement technology using Piezo-electric quartz crystals as the transduction element in accelerometers, load cells, and pressure gauges.

While the anthelion area is usually sparse on haloes, in a complex display it features various rare optic phenomena: Flanking the anthelion on the parhelic circle are two 120 ° parhelia ( and two Liljequist parhelia ) caused by plate crystals.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

While Proust believed that chemical compounds are composed of a fixed ratio of their constituent elements irrespective of the methods of production, Berthollet believed that this ratio can change according to the ratio of the reactants initially taken.

While there are those who maintain that God will punish or reward us according to our behavior on Earth, likewise there are those who assert that any punishment or reward that is due to us is given during our mortal stay on Earth.

While the bodies that proposed, argued, agreed upon and ultimately adopted existing international agreements vary according to each agreement, certain conferences, including 1972's United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1983's World Commission on Environment and Development, 1992's United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and 2002's World Summit on Sustainable Development have been particularly important.

While northern fur seal males aggressively select and defend the specific females in their harems, males of southern species of fur seals tend to protect spatial territories, and females are free to choose or switch their mates according to their own preference or social hierarchy.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

While some convicts responded well to the opportunities offered to become respectable, most remained " idle and miserable wretches " according to Clark, despite the climate and their isolation from previous haunts of crime.

While radon is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer, it is the number one cause among non-smokers, according to EPA estimates.

While the Hebrew text was, according to Irenaeus, at that time interpreted by Theodotion and Aquila ( both proselytes of the Jewish faith ) as a young woman that shall conceive.

While studying in England, on 29 November 1921, the news of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's death reached Shoghi Effendi, which, according to Wellesley Tudor Pole, the deliverer of the cable, left him " in a state of collapse.

While some claim that Hồ Chí Minh Thought is used as a veil for the Party leadership since they, according to this version, have stopped believing in communism, contrary to this version, Hồ Chí Minh was an avid supporter of Vladimir Lenin and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

While the art is judged according to standard artistic considerations ( composition, draftsmanship, consistency of lighting, sense of wonder, facial expressions, etc.

While her parents approved of her college choice, they were dismayed at her lifestyle, and, according to Ono, chastised her for befriending people they considered to be " beneath " her.

While this is intuitively false and is also false according to Carnap's theory of induction, observing non-ravens ( according to that same theory ) causes us to reduce our estimate of the total number of ravens, and thereby reduces the estimated number of possible counterexamples to the rule that all ravens are black.

; Scales: While, as mentioned under Fingering, a player will usually play a given instrument only in its tonic key and possibly in the key beginning on the fourth ( e. g. G on a D whistle ), nearly any key is possible, becoming progressively more difficult to keep in tune as the player moves away from the whistle's tonic, according to the circle of fifths.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

While Evans based the recreations on archaeological evidence, some of the best-known frescoes from the throne room were almost complete inventions of the Gilliérons, according to his critics.

While Indymedias worldwide are run autonomously and differ according to the concerns of their users, they share a commitment to provide copyleft content.

While patience is not one of the traditional biblical three theological virtues nor one of the traditional cardinal virtues, it is part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit, according to the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.

" While this is the most popularly known legendary trait of the candiru, according to Spotte it has been known conclusively to be a myth for more than a century, as it is impossible due to simple fluid physics.