Sentences with phrase «brittle at»

The NX 300 is still a little brittle at lower speeds over less - than - ideal surfaces, but it's exceptionally secure through the bends in a way that belies the inherent handling limitations of an SUV.

«Spider silk becomes brittle at about -50 °C to -60 °C, which is much lower than most polymers,» Fossey says.

Our continuous improvement process suggests that the TS26 is brittle at very low temperatures, and could break or crack.

Not exact matches

Muhga Eltigani's waist - length tresses were thin and brittle, but, while in Africa during her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, she discovered homemade hair treatments using avocado and mango.

When Drew McClellan looks at brown, brittle grass, he sees an opportunity to make some green.

Viewed as a single sequence, therefore, unrest at Campi Flegrei can be explained by the evolving deformation of an elastic - brittle shallow crust.

The combined corrected uplift at Campi Flegrei (with intervals of stasis removed) also follows the classic elastic - brittle sequence for deformation in extension (Fig. 5).

All he got was the cold light needed by the TV crews assembled to capture what turned out to be this Prime Minister at his most brittle.

A squadron of activists offer support, but Unilever's earnings wobble hints at brittle share prices.

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

Contrary to common opinion (at least in the evangelical / charismatic circles I was immersed in) I don't see that as a fatal weakness but a strength, removing the message from the brittle confines of times and places and cultures long gone and into the realm of resilient timelessness.

Just after you were born Europe and her limestone cities swirled with last - breath calcium blasted into the air yet you tell of chewing plaster out of your nursery wall and how at your first refugee - child Christmas you ignored the candled sweets and gnawed the pine tree's base of calcareous brittle.

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

It's worth seeking out the green pepitas for this brittle; I found a bag of them at Trader Joe's.

It will melt almost immediately (in my photo below, you can't see it at all), but that's ok; it will still do its job of giving a delicate, brittle quality to the top.

Dry at 120 degrees for 24 to 30 hours until brittle.

While you are at it pair this with this recipe from my Grandma Gillan Peanut Brittle or some of her English Toffee.

Just wanted to share that Mark Bittman in his Minimalist Gourmet column at New York Times website has a video where he makes peanut brittle.

A basic recipe for sesame brittle is sesame seeds, honey and sugar but I used what I had at home which was sesame seeds, maple syrup and coconut sugar.

* Find at Latino markets and online (sold as «fresh tamarind»), and look for smooth, soft - looking fruit beneath the brittle shells.

As a child I would spend many afternoons at her house around Christmas time making batch after batch of orange cookies, peanut brittle, and a cotton candy - like creation called Divinity.

For the hazelnut brittle, toast the hazelnuts in oven at 160 ⁰ C for 15 minutes then while hot remove the skins by rubbing in a tea towel.

Let brittle cool at room temperature for 30 to 40 minutes.

This granola (as well as the other, for that matter) is almost shockingly crunchy, yet not at all brittle.

Set the oven to its lowest possible setting (ours was at 200 degrees F) and dehydrate the skin overnight, until dry, brown and brittle.

Crack the brittle into pieces and store them in a sealed container at room temperature for up to two weeks.

Parchment does become brittle when it's used - especially when baking at 450F or higher - but it can usually be re-used.

At the moment our squad is no where near winning the league il not even mention the chaps league, on top of that the guaranteed brittle players injuries n the refusal to strengthen means the same every season.

Scary eh, a scarcely trying, timid and brittle guy playing at 50 % or 60 % is still more creative than the rest.

But at the Emirates, with a 2 - 0 scoreline to overturn, Milan showed little desire to take it to an Arsenal side who have shown in the past that they're brittle and can crumble when put under enough pressure.

This experiment looks at how something we think of as being brittle and weak can actually hold a heavy load

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes (approximately), until the cookies are firm but not brittle.

Here at Science Sparks we explored how brittle candy canes are by snapping one candy cane observing how brittle and easy to break it was and then softening another cane in the oven to compare the difference.

Kashif Ali, Phil Woolas and Elwyn Watkins, along with debate chair Alison Brittle, at Uppermill Civic Hall yesterday.

«Given the UK's ability to grind to a halt with even a flake, the snow has come at a very brittle time for the UK economy, adding to the headwinds that it is already battling against as it tries to avoid a triple - dip recession,» HIS Global Insight's chief UK and European economist Howard Archer said.

«At the moment it is generally sent off - site for recycling because of iron contamination making it brittle and so requiring specialist treatment.

A BEER a day could keep brittle bones at bay.

The remaining mineral crystals then can fuse together, according to lead researcher Melinda Duer at the University of Cambridge, and the bones become brittle.

«At this scale,» Rogers says, «something that would otherwise be brittle is completely floppy.»

Another challenge, adds David Tew, a program manager at DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in Washington, D.C., is that the all - ceramic electrodes and electrolyte are extremely brittle, which could make them less durable for use in real - world conditions.

But in the 1980s, Gordon Hendler, now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, discovered that the brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii can spot dark areas from several centimeters away, enabling it to seek refuge from predators.

Such «brittle dieting», says Christopher Fairburn, a psychiatrist at the University of Oxford, is a symptom of an «all or nothing» mindset that makes it hard to shed weight.

«They can, for example, become more brittle, susceptible to cracking or less able to cope with temperature extremes,» said Anthony Froggatt, senior research fellow at London - based thinktank Chatham House.

Green explained that at 300 - 700 kilometers depth, the pressure and temperature are so high that rocks in this deep interior of the planet can not break by the brittle processes seen on Earth's surface.

(Hydrogen is difficult to store at cryogenic temperatures, makes metal brittle and is very flammable.)

The faulty ring, made brittle by unusually cold weather at launch, allowed a jet of flame to ignite the hydrogen fuel in the external tank.

Previous studies have shown the drug to be effective at spurring new bone growth in mice and in humans with osteoporosis, and a U-M research team believes that it may spur new growth in brittle bone disease patients as well.

A rare, soft silvery metallic poor metal, gallium is a brittle solid at low temperatures but liquefies slightly above room temperature and indeed will melt in the hand.

The principle of directing sound at a brittle object is used, for example, to break up kidney stones — except doctors don't bother to find the resonant frequency, preferring just to blast the stone with lots of sound energy (and if a singer were as loud as, say, an explosion, she wouldn't have to find the resonant frequency to break a glass, either).