Sentences with phrase «by pencil lead»
Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory — inspired by pencil lead — that could make it all very simple
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On the front is a black dial pierced by six holes ranging in size from the width of a pencil lead to a mere pinprick.
Researchers discovered graphene, or one - atom - thick sheets of carbon, by mechanically peeling progressively finer layers from raw flakes of graphite, the same stuff found in pencil lead (See: «Carbon Wonderland,» by Andre K. Geim and Philip Kim, in the April issue of Scientific American).
You made graphene by playing with Scotch tape and pencil leads.
In Nature Materials, a team led by Coleman (and funded by the UK - based firm Thomas Swan) describe how they took a high - power (400 - watt) kitchen blender and added half a litre of water, 10 — 25 millilitres of detergent and 20 — 50 grams of graphite powder (found in pencil leads).
The team — led by Professor of Chemical Physics at Trinity, Jonathan Coleman, one of the world's leading nanoscientists — infused rubber bands with graphene, a nano - material derived from pencil lead which is 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
The pencil scene is actually not that good compared to what the Joker does with a glass of water in the Red Hood, and Batman isn't a dour, growly man being led around by the nose by the Joker from crime to crime.
The oil - based house paint, wax crayon, and lead pencil on canvas, measures 79 by 94 3/4 inches.
Regular phases in the lives of these drawings are their partial or total erasure, and their inevitable re - inscription by being «scratched again» with the lead of a pencil.
SUYAMA SPACE: 2324 Second Ave. «Linear Plenum,» an installation by Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo (aka Lead Pencil Studio).
He relates how he was in Budějovice in the Czech Republic and was told by the architect he was collaborating with that Koh - I - Noor Hardtmuth, the pencil factory, was nearby; he asked if they could make him a special hard lead.
«City Surface» by Lead Pencil Studio recreates objects from a typical city street in plywood, reproducing the hobbled - together clutter of an urban environment that functions through an unlikely combination of elements.