Sentences with phrase «accreting around»

To nudge it out of its supersaturated state, all you need to do is put a seed crystal into the solution; the dissolved substance accretes around it, creating — if you're lucky — a nice, large crystal.

He subverted the vanilla nobility that had accreted around T'Challa.

And when there's enough goodness accreted around it, then you say, «Wow, it's ready for prime time» and you launch.

Not exact matches

They do so by association of ideas, by the accreted memories of our race enwrapping connotation around a word, a name — say the name Jerusalem, or the name Sion:

Previous work had unified the variability in discs around black holes of different mass ranges, but by considering not just the mass of the object, but also its size, scientists can now add accreting white dwarfs and proto - stars to this unified picture.

On January 15, 2010, a team of astronomers released the results of computer simulations indicating that kilometer - size planetesimals can form and accrete into rocky Earth - size planets around Alpha Centauri B despite gravitational perturbations from Alpha Centauri A.