Sentences with phrase «formed by layers»

It's a very beautiful place, formed by layers and layers of volcanic ash; it's unique composition made it the first place we saw green grass in the islands.

A closer look at their surface, however — at the interplay between rough and smooth, at the sometimes faded, sometimes vibrant color spectrum, at the nooks and bumps formed by layers of inked paper and embedded and picked away pieces — reveals the artist's interest in the tension between control and release.

She adds, «The Sacca San Mattia seemed like the most suitable wasteland in the area of Venice because of its odd, complex configuration: a piece of land formed by layers of waste produced by the glass and construction industries.»

For example, Ethiopian - born artist Julie Mehretu's Okemos Drawings (Quartet A)(2008) depicts in four unique drawings an intricately abstracted cityscape formed by a layered web of drawn lines in black and white and color.

Highlights from this include his piece Spiderman (2015), in which the artist takes on the persona of a trans woman for a raunchy, politicized standup routine, and his signature large - scale abstract compositions, which he forms by layering paper and paint before sanding them down to reveal previously - obscured layers of color.

Not exact matches

The machine can form layers as thin as 25 microns, which is thinner than most human hairs, and has a total a build volume of 4.9 by 4.9 by 6.5 inches.

Alternately, Antonopoulos suggests thinking of the «Bitcoin blockchain as having an API» (application programming interface) that makes its data usable by third parties, in the same way that second - layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present and interact with Twitter data in slightly modified or reorganized forms.

Structure of a Magnetic Flux Annihilation Layer Formed by the Collision of Supersonic, Magnetized Plasma Flows

Aristotle described human being as a layered hierarchy of informed matter, the elements fusing together under the impress of a higher - level form to compose tissues, tissues serving as the proximate matter for a yet more complex organizing form at the level of organs, and organs bound into the active, dynamic organism by the yet higher form of soul.

one as well think of it as a summary in three layers created by a community of believers, reaching its final form in about 90 - 100 AD.

Alternate carrot strips and onion greens side - by - side in single layer, forming striped pattern, in bottom of pan.

The layers come from large pieces of fat (here in the form of butter, but Spectrum nonhydrogenated vegetable shortening works well, too) being surrounded by layers of flour.

Prepare two 6 - inch spring forms or cake pans by lining them with lightly oiled parchment paper (if you only have one spring form / pan, you can bake one chocolate cake layer at a time).

It is a thick, rich, yellowish cream with a scalded or cooked flavor that is made by heating unpasteurized milk until a thick layer of cream forms on its surface.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

After forming the falafel into balls / patties, I pop them into the freezer in an airtight container (layered and separated by greaseproof paper) and defrost as required.

The substance guards against invading germs by forming a protective layer on the mucous membranes in your baby's intestines, nose, and throat.

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory).

Stromatolites are layered structures built up by sediment - trapping cyanobacteria, and it is these cyanobacteria that have been found to contain a new form of chlorophyll — the fifth ever discovered.

They created a grid of wires by covering the molecule layer with 400 more platinum wires, resulting in groups of molecules sandwiched between each node formed by the crisscrossed wires.

What is more, heating caused by entry into the atmosphere is unlikely to heat anything more than a thin layer around the outside of rocks, forming what is known as a «fusion crust».

The layers are almost completely formed by the time the animal is born, around day 60.

Shatz now had indirect evidence that the layers were formed in response to retinal signaling, coded for not by experience but by genes.

The 2003 find was buried intact by 28 inches of flood sediments, which formed a protective layer over the village.

Wherever permeable and porous rock is capped by an impermeable layer, a natural gas store may form.

Performance was further improved by combining the ruthenium - doped carbon nitride with graphene, a sheet - like form of carbon, to form a layered composite.

Here we report an iridium oxide / strontium iridium oxide (IrOx / SrIrO3) catalyst formed during electrochemical testing by strontium leaching from surface layers of thin films of SrIrO3.

The pellets were melted, compounded, and extruded layer - by - layer by BAAM into desired forms.

UCSC researchers found that glacial polish forms by the accretion of a thin coating layer on top of glacially abraded surfaces.

It has previously been shown that rougher surfaces (also known as textured surfaces) reduce the amount of scar tissue formed around breast implants, but the Manchester scientists felt that they could improve this by creating a pattern which mimicked body's own surface, such as the basal layer of the skin, providing a better environment for the cells to grow on.

When ice starts to form through other means — like frost caused by condensation buildup — the bottom layer kicks into action.

The bendable base layers make devices twist and stretch when attached to the skin, but they are limited by a lack of key components such as batteries and processors that currently do not exist in flexible form.

A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues.

The Manchester connection is significant, not least owing to participation in the research by Irina Grigorieva, who has a special interest in molecular and particle transport across membranes formed of layered materials such as graphene.

They are cylinders formed by rolling up a material known as graphene, which is a flat, single - atom - thick layer of carbon graphite.

In its prototype form, the floor consists of four sections of strong black plastic sheeting covered by a layer of pink foam and, finally, a conventional dance mat.

Smith and his colleagues had previously observed negative refraction and a rudimentary form of cloaking by sending microwaves through layers of metal rings, which in principle can bend light in three dimensions.

The lead surrounding the stars — which was part of the original cloud of gas and dust from which these stars formed, not generated by reactions in the evolving stars themselves — may be dispersed within an atmospheric layer as much as 100 kilometers thick (depicted patchily in pink) that altogether weighs up to 100 billion metric tons.

In some fusion experiments, a fuel of two different forms of hydrogen is surrounded by a plastic layer that reaches conditions similar to the interior of planets during a short - lived compression stage.

Researchers measured the magnetic properties of layered stalagmites, or columnar mineral deposits formed in caves by the growth of carbonate minerals from dripping groundwater.

The layer of ice formed by refreezing water may help preserve the oldest ice, by lifting it off the bedrock and preventing it from being destroyed by melting.

The layer of earth containing the elephant remains and flints is overlain by a higher level of sediment, rich in so - called Acheulian tool types — handaxes of various forms from later in the same interglacial.

That base layer can warp and lift the ice above it, which is formed by snow deposited on the ice sheet's surface.

The researchers hope to get a rough age range for the fossils by dating flowstones — calcite structures formed slowly by dripping water — in adjacent rock layers.

This is achieved by exfoliating pre-treated graphite under a highly alkaline condition to trigger flocculation, a process in which the graphene layers continuously cluster together to form graphene slurry without having to increase the volume of solvent.

But now comes competition: Such layers can also be formed by black phosphorus.

The doping could be accomplished by incorporating a small amount of the dopant metal into the initial zirconium alloy matrix, so that this in turn gets incorporated into the oxidation layer that naturally forms on the metal, the team says.

Blueberries are thought to have formed by the precipitation of iron - bearing minerals when groundwater rose up through layers of sediment.

Once the ice melted, driven by a runaway greenhouse effect caused by volcanic eruptions, it formed a freshwater layer up to 2 kilometres thick.

The research team led by Dr. Jin - Young Lee confirmed in results from radiocarbon dating for carbonized wood (charcoal) found below the basaltic layer located in Sangchang - ri, Seogwipo - si, Jeju - do it dated back to 5,000 years ago; which means the time when the basalt on the upper layer was formed took place relatively recently, i.e. 5,000 years ago, and which demonstrates that the island has experienced a volcanic eruption fairly recently.