Sentences with phrase «large shell structures»
Large shell structures made of concrete or stone are hardly ever built any more.
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In a 2000 study, Jarvis and Claudio Mello of Oregon Health & Science University concluded that the core and shell were actually one large structure.
«This allows us to bypass the requirement for matching the crystal lattices and permits fabrication of a large variety of core - shell structures with different combinations that would otherwise be very challenging to obtain.»
Unlike typical crystal structures like shells, which incorporate thousands of smaller, geometrically symmetrical crystals attached to each other, each spine on a sea urchin is a single large calcite crystal with its own convoluted shape.
But one of the disadvantages is that the containment structure is a lightbulb - shaped steel shell that's only about 30 or 40 feet [nine to 12 meters] across — thick steel, but relatively small compared to large, dry containments like TMI.
Where researchers expected to find a large mantle plume, the map of the geologic structure beneath Yellowstone instead seems to show a ghostly fragment of an old tectonic plate — a former chunk of Earth's rocky shell — lodged under the western United States, right near the Yellowstone hot spot.
They push a stomachlike structure out a hole in the shell and digest prey larger than they are.
And as a further highlight the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo is the first large - scale production car from BMW to feature frameless windows in aluminium shell structure.
Works in various scale create dynamic spatial relationships: a metal structure covered with accumulated bottles sits on the floor, informed by vernacular architecture as well as the cotillion, a social dance originating in France in the 18th century and further developed by African Americans in the United States; and a chandelier of oversized cowrie shells hangs dramatically within a large and site - specific yurt - like structure.