While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.

While the side-stick offers the advantages of being lighter, mechanically simpler, and unobtrusive, The Boeing Company's aerospace engineers decided that the lack of visual feedback ( none given by side-sticks ) is a significant problem, and so they designed conventional control yokes in the Boeing 777 and the Boeing 787, which entered service on 26 October 2011 with All Nippon Airways.

While not forming large batteries and employing only lighter 3-and 2-pound guns, they were still effective and inflicted serious losses to Prussian units in the Seven Years ' War.

While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large-caliber guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats and other lighter surface ships, submersibles, even ordinary fishing boats or frogmen, and later, aircraft, to destroy large armoured ships without the need of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire.

While lighter isotopes are agreed in the literature to be very unstable, there are signs that the super-heavy isotopes may be much more stable.

While phylogenetically a " bony fish ", its skeleton is primarily cartilage ( which is lighter than bone ).

While other, lighter, fighters were mainly intended for defense, the destroyers were the ones mainly intended for offensive missions: to escort bombers on missions at long range, then use its superior speed to outrun defending fighters that would be capable of outmaneuvering it.

While it was a difficult, dangerous machine, it was simpler, lighter, and faster than the safer velocipedes of the time.

While the surcoat was being phased out, small plates of various forms and sizes ( and not always made in pairs, i. e., the plate for the sword-arm often being smaller and lighter than its the one for the off-hand ) were attached to the armour in front of the shoulders, to defend the otherwise vulnerable points where the plate defenses left a gap.

While this is somewhat longer than the average domestic cat, Leopardus tigrinus is generally lighter, weighing.

While the flak jacket offers a high level of ballistic protection many officers prefer the lighter and more comfortable stab vest.

While it is usually rather lighter than the waterfowl, after the Trumpeter Swan, the turkey has the second heaviest maximum weight of any North American bird.

While strictly speaking, the English groat should have contained four pennyweights or 96 grains ( 6. 2 grams ) of sterling silver, the first ones issued weighed 89 grains ( 5. 8 g ) and later issues became progressively lighter.

While such rituals as the latter are only performed on the most solemn of occasions and thus very rare, a Kneipe commonly involves the lighter sides of life, such as rampant beer consumption and uninhibited singing of traditional student songs, many of which are quite bawdy for the standards of the time.

While the reserves are overwhelmingly extra heavy crude, pockets of lighter tight oil, as well as natural gas, are also found in the basin.

While this bird ’ s appearance is similar to the closely related Cassin's Vireo ( Vireo cassinii ), the Cassin's Vireo can be differentiated by its lighter yellow patches, a smaller, thinner bill, and a brownish-grey crown.

While the Zippo Manufacturing Company never had an official contract with the military, soldiers and armed forces personnel insisted that Base exchange ( BX ) and Post exchange ( PX ) stores carry this sought-after lighter.

While Mazama slept, its magma chamber was going through some differentiation, with lighter, more gas-and silica-rich rocks collecting closer to the surface.

While most draft horses are used for driving, they can be ridden and some of the lighter draft breeds are capable performers under saddle.

While she was highly successful in the lighter roles of Wagner's operas, her spinto voice — although large in size, with a ringing top register — was better suited to German music of a less declamatory type.

While in the case of unbroken parity symmetry the masses of particles are the same as their mirror partners, in case of broken parity symmetry the mirror partners are lighter or heavier.

While in racing and sports cars the mid-engine configuration leads to optimal car handling, acceleration and braking, the engine was much lighter than the rear passengers, leading to a variable center of gravity.

While shorter and much lighter than the previous generation, these cars still had a big car look and ride.

While chains and gears may be more durable, rubber composite belts are quieter in their operation ( in most modern engines the noise difference is negligible ), are less expensive and more efficient, by dint of being lighter, when compared with a gear or chain system.

While counter weights add a considerable amount of weight to the crankshaft, it provides a smoother running engine and allows higher RPM levels to be reached.

While common multisync CRT computer monitors have been capable of running at even multiples of 24 Hz since the early 1990s, recent " 120 Hz " LCD displays have been produced for the purpose of having smoother, more fluid motion, depending upon the source material, and any subsequent processing done to the signal.

While its inhabitants, in the main, are clearly native Amazonians, many bear striking genetic traits — markedly smoother facial structure, stereotypically Asian eyes, and straighter hair — which may mark the existence of a community of Chinese immigrants in the 19th or 20th century who intermarried and vanished, as mysteriously as they came.

While this simple version of the API design does not produce very important weight savings, it makes the firing cycle seem smoother to the operator and enhances controllability by reducing the submachine gun's muzzle climb.

While the game still maintained its scaled, overhead view, the character animation was much smoother.

While considered " extreme ", Rock ' n ' Roller Coaster has been described by roller coaster enthusiasts as being smoother, less jerky and less uncomfortable than some similar extreme roller coasters.

While Juvederm is extremely chemically close to Restylane ; many surgeons report the former is slightly smoother to inject.

While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While the language has continued to change in all of these places, modern Canadian English has inherited significant vocabulary and spelling from the shared political and social institutions of Commonwealth countries.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

While the name of the organization is the Canadian Unitarian Council, the CUC includes congregations with Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian Universalist and Universalist Unitarian in their names.

While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.

" While there were hostile incidents at the end of Vancouver's last season – the most serious of which involved a clash with Tlingits at Behm Canal in southeast Alaska in 1794 – these were the exceptions to Vancouver's exploration of the U. S. and Canadian Northwest coast.

While the Liberals lost several seats, they still had 111 more seats than the Tories, enabling them to dominate the Canadian House of Commons.

While held by Epps, in 1852 Northup secretly befriended Samuel Bass, an itinerant Canadian carpenter working for Epps.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

While the 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17, 480, the latest membership statistics from the Canadian Unitarian Council show as of September 1, 2007 they had 5, 150 " official " members.

While Canada left the IWC in 1982, the only species currently harvested by the Canadian Inuit that is covered by the IWC is the bowhead whale.

While the Canadian Parliament had established an Old Age Pension program in 1927, this was administered by the provinces and jointly funded by them.

In February and March 1945, P-40 fighter pilots from 133 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force operating out of RCAF Patricia Bay ( Victoria, British Columbia ), intercepted and destroyed two fire balloons, On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell While shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain, in Washington State.

While waiting for her Canadian citizenship to come through, Kate has been busy planning their wedding and the purchase of their first house, complete with a white picket fence.

While geodesy and geophysics are separate fields, the two are so closely connected that many scientific organizations such as the American Geophysical Union, the Canadian Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics encompass both.

While not as commonly lampooned as the Canadian " eh ", there are few features that are ' more eagerly recognized by New Zealanders as a marker of their identity than the tag particle, " eh ."'.

While attending the University of Toronto he won two Hart House literary prizes ( the first to win two ), for stories which were published in the Hart House Review, and Canadian Fiction Magazines annual Contributor's Prize for 1985.

While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31, 2011, CBC converted only about half of the analog transmitters in mandatory to digital ( 15 of 28 markets with CBC TV, and 14 of 28 markets with SRC ).

While sea ice prevents year-round shipping, the Canadian Coast Guard maintains a vessel traffic service ( VTS ) to ensure collisions do not occur.

While loved by Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, the dish is not widely known of outside the Canadian province.