Sentences with phrase «from molten lead»

The curtain in question shimmers from reflected light, but it also drapes with such weight as to appear poured from molten lead.

Produced from molten lead, the works known as «splashings» or «castings» (or sometimes both) are chief examples of this category of work.

Not exact matches

The hotter, wetter or more molten, the weaker the structure,» says lead author Dr Lijun Liu, from the University of Illinois.

The strain is accommodated by either rocks sliding past one another, causing earthquakes, or by molten rocks welling up from deep underground to fill the opening space, ultimately leading to volcanic eruptions.

Novel designs with alternative cooling fluids other than water, such as Transatomic Power's molten salt — cooled reactor or the liquid lead — bismuth design from Hyperion Power, are in development.

The researchers, led by Elizabeth Bell — a postdoctoral scholar in Harrison's laboratory — studied more than 10,000 zircons originally formed from molten rocks, or magmas, from Western Australia.

Inability to find rock formations from the period led them to conclude that early Earth was hellishly hot, either entirely molten or subject to such intense asteroid bombardment that any rocks that formed were rapidly remelted.

Since last October, shocking revelations and privacy breaches have surfaced from Scorpio's molten depths, but in the true, extreme nature of this zodiac sign, these scandals have led to equally empowering movements.

Namuth's photographs and films of Pollock still stand among the most important documents showing an artist in his studio and continue to influence artists as diverse as Richard Serra (whose molten - lead sculptures from the late»60s transpose the drip paintings into three dimensions) and Vik Muniz (who appropriated one of the images for a painting in chocolate).

Before turning to steel, Serra produced abstract sculptures from nontraditional materials — fiberglass, rubber or molten lead — which he splashed or threw in their liquid states against the walls of studios or exhibition spaces, recording their shapes and angles.

Those familiar with Serra's entire oeuvre will also make connections between prints with a splattered affect and his early installations in which he hurled molten lead at the wall, creating sculptures from the accumulation of the substance.

A consortium led by Canada - based Western Hydrogen Ltd. will receive a $ C1.5 - million investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG), originally developed at... Read more →