While fused quartz ( primarily composed of SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) is used for some special applications, it is not very common due to its high glass transition temperature of over 1200 ° C ( 2192 ° F ).< ref > Normally, other substances are added to simplify processing.

While inspecting the earthquake damage during a 28 April 2009 visit to the Aquila, Pope Benedict XVI visited Celestine's remains in the badly damaged Santa Maria di Collemaggio and left the woolen pallium he wore during his papal inauguration in April 2005 on his glass casket as a gift.

While water remains both in the upturned tumbler and in the sink surrounding it, the plug hole and plug are visible since the angle of refraction between glass and water is not greater than the critical angle.

While in Lucerne Holbein also designed cartoons for stained glass.

While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305. Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the alleged liquefaction of what is claimed to be a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule.

While the girls are robbing the diamond depository they accidentally set off the alarm, prompting them to break the glass and steal the diamonds.

While the stainless steel element of the towers entices the illustrious sun, highlighting the magnificent towers, they are composed of 55, 000 square meters of 20. 38 mm laminated glass to reduce heat by reflecting harmful UV rays.

While some similar forces are at work here, it is different from capillary attraction, a process where glass or other ' solid ' substances attract water, but are not changed in the process ( for example, water molecules becoming suspended between the glass molecules ).

While the spelling shard is generally reserved for referring to fragments of glass vessels the term does not exclude pottery fragments.

While there his The Consecration of St. Mel, Bishop of Longford, by St. Patrick won the gold medal for stained glass work in the 1910 Board of Education National Competition.

While latex is commonly used and less expensive than materials such as silicone, glass and CyberSkin, it can be allergenic to some people with latex allergy.

While he deduced the correct relation for water, he was unable to do so for glasses due to the low quality of materials available to him ( most glasses at that time showing a variation in refractive index between the surface and the interior of the glass ).

While Joacim was drinking with his girlfriend in a rock club he had been frequenting for over a decade, he was attacked by an unidentified person who hit him in the head with a beer glass and hastily escaped.

( b ) While asleep, he could be killed with a glass sword, a powerful weapon that kills nearly everything in one blow and is destroyed in the process.

While Frank spent time opening more stores, working the back end of the business, buying in bulk for all affiliates and " friendly rivals ", and buying manufacturers to keep prices low, Sum used his Scranton store to train new managers and develop many of the Woolworth concepts which included bright lighting, a polished high-luster floor, glass showcases, mahogany counters and merchandise which people can touch.

While grating the root finely, small amounts of the gratings are placed into a prepared glass jar with cold water to prevent exposing the root to air.

While the mission had a political purpose, experiments were carried out, including one which monitored the growth of Chlorella seaweed in zero gravity, another which used the on-board Splav furnace to melt glass, lead, silver and copper chlorides, and an experiment called Oxymeter which measured oxygen in human tissue.

While on-stage as Darren Spooner, Cocker, took to karate-chopping balsa wood and breaking sugar glass bottles on other band members.

While flip-flops do provide the wearer with some protection from hazards on the ground, such as hot sand at the beach, glass, thumb tacks or even fungi and wart-causing viruses in locker rooms or community pools, their simple design is responsible for a host of other injuries of the foot and lower leg.

While the wheelbase, doors, roof, and glass remained relatively unchanged, new body panels gave the 1988 model a more identifiable " Eldorado " appearance.

While there are slight variations, the main bulk of its buildings follow a similar theme with a complex geometrical design featuring a mix of zinc, perforated zinc, glass and sandstone tiles over a metal exoskeletal frame in a complex geometrical pattern composed entirely of scalene triangles.

While a traditional cockpit relies on numerous mechanical gauges to display information, a glass cockpit uses several displays driven by flight management systems, that can be adjusted to display flight information as needed.

While GRP, wood, and even concrete hulls are technically made of composite materials, the term " composite " is often used for plastics reinforced with fibers other than ( or in addition to ) glass.

While many microfibers are made of polyester, they can also be composed of polyamide or other polymers polypropylene.

While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.

While modern Ainu have predominantly tested as being mongoloid ( due to heavy race mixing ), The race to which the Ainu belonged cannot be determined until ancient remains are tested.

While the speed of communication is important, so is the fact that the messages cannot be overheard except by listeners with a piece of the original crystal.

While tanks are seen as being integral to armoured warfare, in forces with a remit of power projection deployability has always been a consideration, which conventional main battle tanks cannot provide.

While they can synthesize arginine and histidine, they cannot produce it in sufficient amounts for young, growing animals, and so these are often considered essential amino acids.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

While many Baptists are not opposed to the ancient creeds, they regard them as " not so final that they cannot be revised and re-expressed.

While not enough is known about Hebrews or its background, its dependence on any early Jewish tradition cannot be proved.

While superior to the van der Waals equation of state, it performs poorly with respect to the liquid phase and thus cannot be used for accurately calculating vapor-liquid equilibria.

While it is possible to create a controlled sporting event such as X Games, there are environmental variables that cannot be held constant for all athletes.

While noir is often associated with an urban setting, many classic noirs take place in small towns, suburbia, rural areas, or on the open road ; so setting cannot be its genre determinant, as with the Western.

While a player is taking a free hit or starting a corner the back swing of their hit cannot be too high for this is considered dangerous.

While most compilers for imperative programming languages detect pure functions, and perform common-subexpression elimination for pure function calls, they cannot always do this for pre-compiled libraries, which generally do not expose this information, thus preventing optimizations that involve those external functions.

While we cannot do this by simply rearranging the quantifiers, we show that it is yet enough to prove the theorem for sentences of that form.

While it cannot be determined why exactly the government does not allow private cars to be fuelled by diesel, it has been pointed out that the government does receive a tax that is 150 % of the actual fuel cost.

While " legal " insider trading cannot be based on material non-public information, some investors believe corporate insiders nonetheless may have better insights into the health of a corporation ( broadly speaking ) and that their trades otherwise convey important information ( e. g., about the pending retirement of an important officer selling shares, greater commitment to the corporation by officers purchasing shares, etc.

While food irradiation can in some cases maintain the quality ( i. e. general appearance and " inner " quality ) of certain perishable food for a longer period of time, it cannot undo spoilage that occurred prior to irradiation.

While the term meaning " Treaty of Kalmar ", the pact, was known already at the time, the term " Union of Kalmar " cannot be found in any contemporary documents.

While most large, modern cruise ships cannot pass through this canal due to clearance limits under bridges, MS Norwegian Dream has special funnels and masts that can be lowered for passage.

While the Möbius strip can be embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space R < sup > 3 </ sup >, the Klein bottle cannot.

While the identification of memes as " units " conveys their nature to replicate as discrete, indivisible entities, it does not imply that thoughts somehow become quantized or that " atomic " ideas exist that cannot be dissected into smaller pieces.

While the general narrative of the Exodus and the conquest of the Promised Land may be remotely rooted in historical events, the figure of Moses as a leader of the Israelites in these events cannot be substantiated.

While an antimanic agent such as valproic acid or carbamazepine cannot treat depression directly as the former two drugs can, it is widely thought to help ward off depression in bipolar patients by keeping them out of mania and, thus, preventing their moods from cycling.

While Molotov cocktails may be a psychologically effective method of disabling armoured fighting vehicles by forcing the crew out or damaging external components, most modern tanks cannot be physically destroyed or rendered completely inoperable by Molotov cocktails ; only " disabled ".

While much Native American spiritualism exists in a tribal-cultural continuum, and as such cannot be easily separated from tribal identity itself, certain other more clearly defined movements have arisen among " traditional " Native American practitioners, these being identifiable as " religions " in the clinical sense.