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material of a curiously mixed quality ; writing that is often simply and perceptively moving just as often sadly lacking any particular strength or color " Imagination reviewer Mark Reinsberg, although praising Bradbury as " a gifted writer ," complained that he had " a tendency to overestimate the power of style to nourish anemic themes.
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Therefore if flat material is placed on two or more rollers ( in the shape of curves of the same constant width ) resting on a flat surface, the material will remain a constant height off the ground as it is pushed forward ( though the rollers themselves will appear to " move in a curiously irregular manner " if their shape is significantly non-circular ).
material and mixed
An adobe brick is a composite material made of clay mixed with water and an organic material such as straw or dung.
As for the materials they used, the WD-2's mask is fabricated with a highly elastic material called Septom, with bits of steel wool mixed in for added strength.
During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.
* Chymistry ( 1661 ) – the subject of the material principles of mixed bodies ( Boyle ).
Swine manure, which is very wet and usually not mixed with bedding material, must be mixed with straw or similar raw materials.
It provides a rich growing medium, or a porous, absorbent material that holds moisture and soluble minerals, providing the support and nutrients in which plants can flourish, although it is rarely used alone, being primarily mixed with soil, sand, grit, bark chips, vermiculite, perlite, or clay granules to produce loam.
The re-used segments, including re-used puzzlers, are not being acknowledged as old material and sometimes new caller material is mixed in alongside the recycled calls.
* Negative stain – suspensions containing nanoparticles or fine biological material ( such as viruses and bacteria ) are briefly mixed with a dilute solution of an electron-opaque solution such as ammonium molybdate, uranyl acetate ( or formate ), or phosphotungstic acid.
Sallustius, for example, divides myths into five categories – theological, physical ( or concerning natural laws ), animastic ( or concerning soul ), material and mixed.
While the format has no particular standard identity, most " mix " stations have rotations consisting largely of pop and rock music from the 1980s and 1990s ( and often the 1970s ), with some current material mixed in.
Adobe roofs are roofs of clay, mixed with binding material such as straw or animal hair, and plastered on lathes to form a flat or gently sloped roof, usually in areas of low rainfall.
Depending on the geometry of the sample, one may obtain an intermediate state consisting of a baroque pattern of regions of normal material carrying a magnetic field mixed with regions of superconducting material containing no field.
In Type II superconductors, raising the applied field past a critical value H < sub > c1 </ sub > leads to a mixed state ( also known as the vortex state ) in which an increasing amount of magnetic flux penetrates the material, but there remains no resistance to the flow of electric current as long as the current is not too large.
Smoke is a collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.
The expanding outer layers of the star are convective, with the material being mixed by turbulence from near the fusing regions up to the surface of the star.
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium ( usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size ).
They can also mix the different soil layers, restarting the soil formation process as less weathered material is mixed with the more developed upper layers.
The major raw material for the clinker-making is usually limestone ( CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >) mixed with a second material containing clay as source of alumino-silicate.
Some comets contain " massive amounts of an organic material almost identical to high grade oil shale ," the equivalent of cubic kilometers of such mixed with other material ; for instance, corresponding hydrocarbons were detected in a probe fly-by through the tail of Comet Halley during 1986.
material and quality
124-126 .</ ref > While other philosophers also recognized such transitions in states of matter, Anaximenes was the first to associate the quality pairs hot / dry and cold / wet with the density of a single material and add a quantitative dimension to the Milesian monistic system .< ref > Kirk, G. S., J. E.
The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.
In structural applications, high flexural rigidity, thermal stability, thermal conductivity and low density ( 1. 85 times that of water ) make beryllium a quality aerospace material for high-speed aircraft, missiles, space vehicles and communication satellites.
While these fires release carbon dioxide, they improve the quality of the grasslands overall, in turn increasing the amount of carbon retained in the humic material.
Biafra also accused the releases of the new live material of having poor sound quality.
Pernambuco, also known as Brazilwood, is regarded as an excellent quality stick material, but due to its scarcity and expense, other materials are increasingly being used.
The rate of decomposition is governed by three sets of factors — the physical environment ( temperature, moisture and soil properties ), the quantity and quality of the dead material available to decomposers, and the nature of the microbial community itself.
The quality and quantity of the material available to decomposers is another major factor that influences the rate of decomposition.
As organic material in the soil ages, its quality decreases.
The attraction between a magnet and ferromagnetic material is " the quality of magnetism first apparent to the ancient world, and to us today ".
In addition to the raw material quality, also the production process itself is an effective quality assurance measure.
In hydrology, studies of water quality concern organic and inorganic compounds, and both dissolved and sediment material.
In addition, water quality is affected by the interaction of dissolved oxygen with organic material and various chemical transformations that may take place.
Furthermore, they act as buffering systems whereby they reduce coastal erosion, and improve water quality for in situ animals by processing material and ‘ filtering ’ sediments.
Buffered paper folders are especially recommended in cases when a photograph was previously mounted onto poor quality material or using an adhesive that will lead to even more acid creation.
Such disordered materials lack the rigid crystalline structure of conventional semiconductors such as silicon and are generally used in thin film structures, which do not require material of higher electronic quality, being relatively insensitive to impurities and radiation damage.
Passive forms included losing German shipments and allowing poor quality material to pass factory inspections.
The undesirable contaminant Pu-240 decays faster than the Pu-239, and thus the quality of the bomb material increases with time ( although its quantity decreases during that time as well ).
On a volume basis a good quality soil is one that is 45 % minerals ( sand, silt, clay ), 25 % water, 25 % air, and 5 % organic material, both live and dead.
He attempted to relate the polarizing angle to the refractive index of the material, but was frustrated by the inconsistent quality of glasses available at that time.
This process was performed at least three times, with each successive extraction generating a lower quality material.
* Sampling ( for testing or analysis ), taking a representative portion of a material or product to test ( e. g. by physical measurements, chemical analysis, microbiological examination ), typically for the purposes of identification, quality control, or regulatory assessment
It is the leaf and seed material in the hay that determines its quality.
The large capacity of CD-ROMs — equivalent to around 470-500 floppy disks, the former distribution method of choice — encouraged producers to fill them by the shovel with as much existing content as possible, often without regard to the quality of the material.
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