Sentences with phrase «as pencil lead»

«They are as sharp as a pencil lead,» says Cameron Hudson of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

Fermi decided that the best material for slowing neutrons was graphite, the form of carbon commonly used as pencil lead.

Not exact matches

Single graphene sheets are chemically reactive, but stacked layers of graphene — otherwise known as graphite, or pencil «lead» — are inert.

«Complex writing didn't stop the use of the abacus, just as the digital age hasn't wiped out pencils and pens,» said Dr John MacGinnis from Cambridge's MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, who led the research.

It led to the children being more ready for school life, often settling in quicker and being able to adjust to holding and working with stationary such as pencils.

In the W - TENG, plastic was swapped for a multipart fiber made of graphene — a single layer of graphite, or pencil lead — and a biodegradable polymer known as poly - lactic acid (PLA).

In the W - TENG, plastic was swapped for a multipart fiber made of graphene — a single layer of graphite, or pencil lead — and a biodegradable polymer known as polylactic acid (PLA).

«Products that offer USPs such as stronger pencil leads, and inks that are designed not to dry out might be slightly more expensive, but investing in them can often save money in the long - run.

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In time her fingers became stained with the lead of the pencil he had used to write his manuscript, as she devoted herself to understanding who he was, why he disappeared, and what legacy she had inherited.

Think of the quick as the lead of the pencil, and you are peeling around it.

But the tedious, almost quixotic nature of the endeavor — forcing a dense impasto from delicate color pencils — leads one to suspect that the motivation originates not in the common culture, but in a more holistic domain that includes lived experience: as a schoolboy, Grotjahn was rewarded for achievements with poker chips meant to be «cashed in» for prizes.

While attending the engineering night school, he worked as the Assistant Director of Research and Process Control at Eagle Pencil Company, the largest manufacturer of lead pencils in the world.

The tree - ring pencil - lined skin of Chadsey's men, an allusion both to Gustave Doré's copperplate etchings of Dante's Inferno and to presidential portraits on US currency, lead our eyes to travel along the subjects» surfaces, rendering the body, itself, as an evolving physical narrative.

Johnson recommends a traditional fountain pen or this refillable ballpoint point, as well as a metal lead holder as pencil replacement.

«But if we open up the market to include uses with higher economic value, such as mercury remediation or the production of black carbons for toner cartridges and lead pencils, we could make biochar a going economic enterprise.»

Maybe younger grades (I was a senior when the program started) did utilize those Adobe apps, and maybe they will find iPads and a Pencil more useful than a Chromebook, but an honest look at everything Apple introduced still leads me to think that without an app as incredibly useful as Google Drive, they will always be playing catchup.

New iPads, an Apple Pencil, and something unique for education lead speculation as Apple invites media to its March 27 «field trip» in Chicago, which appears to be its spring event.

As a result, school children in the early 20th century could get lead poisoning from excessive chewing of their pencils.

Those quickly slipped to as long as 4 - 5 weeks, leading some scalpers to sell Apple Pencil on eBay for as much as $ 400.