Sentences with phrase «found tiny glass beads»

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To find out, scientists used syringes to create droplets of a consistent size, then released the drops over a bed of tiny glass beads meant to represent loose sand.

Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface.

But in 1968 she changed direction when she applied tiny prismatic glass beads (or «microspheres,» the kind found embedded in some highway signs and line dividers), to paint before brushing the mixture onto prepped canvases.

She also sought to find a way to «put the light into the painting» — a pursuit that soon led her to glass microspheres, the tiny prismatic beads most commonly found in highway dividing lines to illuminate lane boundaries at night.