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rough and surface
I have used a variety of heavy-weight hand-made papers, but prefer an English make, rough surface, in 400-pound weight.
The outer surface of an agate, freed from its matrix, is often pitted and rough, apparently in consequence of the removal of the original coating.
As a halite crystal is growing, new atoms can very easily attach to the parts of the surface with rough atomic-scale structure and many dangling bonds.
If the ball has a rough surface, the fluid flowing past it will make it rotate.
The speckle pattern which is observed when laser light falls on an optically rough surface is also a diffraction phenomenon.
It is a result of the superpostion of many waves with different phases, which are produced when a laser beam illuminates a rough surface.
The outer nuclear membrane is continuous with the rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane, and like that structure, features ribosomes attached to the surface.
If the solid surface is rough, and the liquid is in intimate contact with the solid asperities, the droplet is in the Wenzel state.
The criterion focuses on the air-trapping capability under liquid droplets on rough surfaces, which could tell whether Wenzel's model or Cassie-Baxter's model should be used for certain combination of surface roughness and energy.
In an experiment designed to challenge the surface energy perspective of the Wenzel and Cassie – Baxter model and promote a contact line perspective, water drops were placed on a smooth hydrophobic spot in a rough hydrophobic field, a rough hydrophobic spot in a smooth hydrophobic field, and a hydrophilic spot in a hydrophobic field.
The latter describes a break along a rough, jagged surface ; an example of this property is found in native copper.
Although the deposited film surface is still rough due to deposition kinetics, the back side of the film at mica-film interface provides ultraflatness, when the film is removed from the substrate.
Good quality dried pasta is identified by its slight rough surface and compact body that helps maintain its firmness in cooking, since it swells considerably in size when cooked.
With the exception of silk, each of these fibres is short, being only centimetres in length, and each has a rough surface that enables it to bond with similar staples.
While for piecewise smooth surfaces there is a unique natural notion of surface area, if a surface is very irregular, or rough, then it may not be possible to assign any area at all to it.
While not as fast as a Greyhound on a smooth, firm surface, once the going gets rough or heavy they can outrun a Greyhound.
More than 80 % of the land surface is rough, broken, and mountainous, and therefore is of limited agricultural value ( see Agriculture, ch.
The surface is rough, so no reflection will occur.
A familiar example is the random pattern created when a laser beam is scattered off a rough surface – see picture.
If the surface is rough enough to create path-length differences exceeding one wavelength, giving rise to phase changes greater than 2π, the amplitude, and hence the intensity, of the resultant light varies randomly.
When an image is formed of a rough surface which is illuminated by a coherent light ( e. g. a laser beam ), a speckle pattern is observed in the image plane ; this is called a “ subjective speckle pattern ” – see image above.
When laser light which has been scattered off a rough surface falls on another surface, it forms an “ objective speckle pattern ”.

rough and earth
Each civilian tile also has a Chinese name ( and common rough translation to English ): The 6-6 is tin ( 天 heaven ), 1-1 is dei ( 地 earth ), 4-4 is yan ( 人 man ), 1-3 is ngo ( 鵝 goose or 和 harmony ), 5-5 is mui ( 梅 plum flower ), 3-3 is cheung ( 長 long ), 2-2 is ban ( 板 board ), 5-6 is fu ( 斧 hatchet ), 4-6 is ping ( 屏 partition ), 1-6 is tsat ( 七 ) ( long leg seven ), and 1-5 is luk ( 六 ) ( big head six ).
We dare not seriously affirm it, but all the same it is certain that man came out of the slime of the earth, and his first appearance must have been in the form of a rough sketch.
The boy was horrified to hear the rough shovelling out of the contents, and protested that the earth should be pared away, inch by inch, to see all that was in it and how it lay.
The estimate Newton had used for the radius of the earth, which had been accepted by geographers and navigators, was based on the very rough estimate that the length of a degree of latitude of the Earth's surface measured along a meridian was 60 nautical miles.
The terrain of eastern Anatolia and the Caucuses is extremely rough and combined with the difficulty in supplying the army in light of Isma ' il's scorched earth campaign while marching against Muslims, Selim's army was discontented.
; Gnomes: Sprites of the earth and hills, gnomes are often shown as bearded dwarves, often with rough features.
The only trace of Government House left is the bridge to the forecourt, and some depressions in the earth that outline the rough footprint of its foundations.

rough and itself
Motion in a patched-conic system is deterministic and simple to calculate, lending itself for rough mission design and " back of the envelope " studies.
Earlier in 1963, Nicklaus injured his left hip playing an approach shot from the rough — an injury that would manifest itself years later.
: The State should watch over these societies of citizens banded together in accordance with their rights, but it should not thrust itself into their peculiar concerns and their organization, for things move and live by the spirit inspiring them, and may be killed by the rough grasp of a hand from without.
The Lost Road itself is a fragmentary beginning of a tale, including a rough structure and several intriguing chunks of narrative, including four entire chapters dealing with modern England and Númenor, from which the entire story as it should have been can be glimpsed.
The combined system allows the Leopard 2 to engage moving targets at ranges of up to 5, 000 meters whilst itself being on the move over rough terrain.
The sound itself is Broken Social Scene's familiar mix of rough and ragged, sad and celebratory.
Rudyard Kipling, who wrote the ritual obligation, indicated that the Ring as an allegory in itself be rough, not smoothed, and hammered, and as a ring have no beginning nor end.
Despite the rough treatment, the Left Wing resisted splitting the organization, instead opting to continue its fight within the Workman's Circle organization itself.
Hawke suggested that this would lend itself to rough play and make control difficult.
The fairly rough and uneven land was unsuitable for housing as apart from the Lake itself it contained large stretches of boggy ground.
Several waterfalls, the mighty and wide river itself, the semi-arid and rough caatinga, strange rock formations, and its river gorges are appreciated by tourists and trekkers for their natural beauty.
The building itself is raised up from ground level, sitting atop a rough granite plinth.
The traditions of Augusta, such as the awarding of a green jacket to the champion, create a distinctive character for the tournament, as does the course itself, with its lack of rough but severely undulating fairways and greens, and punitive use of ponds and creeks on several key holes on the back nine.
The name itself may be a reference to the waters sometimes being extremely rough.
The wake caused by the water brake was very large from travelling at such high speeds, so Campbell had a choice to refuel and wait, before starting the mandatory return leg, for the lake to settle again or return quickly knowing that although the area where the water brake had been applied would be rough, the area immediately south of the measured kilo as well as the measured kilo itself would be undisturbed.
Though the administrative area ( Sanya Prefecture ) has a rough topography, the city itself is generally flat, lying on a parcel of land between low-level mountains to the north and the South China Sea.
These forms were not used as molds ; the shell itself became the final sculpture, including the rough texture of the bandages.
As Semitic itself is a rough, categorical term ( when referring to cultures, not languages ), the definitive bounds of the term " ancient Semitic religion " are likewise only approximate.
A mimic is amorphous, able to alter the external configuration of its form at will, and the more intelligent ones can even assume the shape of a partition wall, overhanging arch, or rough rock wall ; this feat is accomplished by the creature's mode of travel, which involves extending its strong pseudopods, which exude a sticky " glue ", and pulling itself along (" unsticking " its own glue at will ), traveling on walls and ceilings as easily as it can on floors.
Amy Hanson of Allmusic praised it as " rough and ready rock that slotted itself nicely under a gothic canvas – they were and remain post-punk's forgotten kings ... Its urgency jangles, its cacophony is dichotomous, and, at times, the underlying energy is breathtaking as the band storms through a great set ".
" The town itself consisted " of about a dozen houses built of rough stones and mud, with flat roofs branches being placed in rows across the beams, and covered with mud.
The rough surface of the basalt stone creates a superb grinding surface that maintains itself over time as tiny bubbles in the basalt are ground down, replenishing the textured surface.
: The left and right faces are water-streaked slabs that straddle the Watchtower itself, which is a rough buttress that has separated from the mountain proper.

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