Sentences with phrase «of thinner glass»

The R8 GT Spyder is much lighter due to the use of thinner glass in the windscreen and carbon fiber body panels.

Use of a thinner glass windscreen and polycarbonate elsewhere yielded a net loss of 9 kg.

«A 300» by 300» lightweight structure supports a series of thin glass channels housing a net - work of pipes, tubes, and algae to produce ï ¬ ltered, clean air and gases for biofuel.

Not exact matches

Rumours are flying that Apple is working on a smart watch made of thin, curved glass.

It radiates alpha particles, relatively large on an atomic scale, which means the thin glass of a test tube, the leather of a briefcase, or even air or skin stop them.

The incandescent light bulb was a vacuum - filled glass globe in which an electric current heated a resistive thin strip of material (called a filament) until it glowed, producing light.

Pictures, videos, emails, phone calls and more, traveling through glass fibers as thin as human hair, all at the speed of light.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

Yancey wrestled with the steering wheel, but his SUV tumbled over an embankment, shattering glass, plastic and metal - and much of Yancey's thin body.

Cut the blood oranges into thin slices and line 4 slices around the edges of each glass.

You'll need about 4 cups of yogurt or thick milk kefir, some cheese cloth or a thin towel, and a glass bowl.

Here are the containers I recommend using for meal prep; they're glass, they're oven and microwave safe, and they're thin so they don't take up a ton of room in the fridge!

With such house full of clumsies, thin glass doesn't stand a chance.

Also, if you want the kiwi's pressed up to the side of the glass like I have it, slice the kiwi thin and carefully slide it into the glass.

Fill small, chilled glasses with lots of ice cubes, and razor - thin slices of lime.

I made the couscous mixture and tried to spread half of it but it wasn't even enough to spread a thin layer on the bottom of my glass pie dish so i just used it all and made another batch of couscous while the first batch was chilling.

Use a small spatula or thin - bladed knife to lift butter out of glass, then scrape off any sludge from side that was in contact with water; discard water.

As a quirky kid with freckles and glasses, Sawicki made the rounds, selling the most cookies — Thin Mints and Samoas were customers» favorites (even though she was into Trefoils)-- of anyone in her troupe.

C - Ron is out for two months, Louis Saha is made of glass, Fraizer Campbell is too raw... the attacking back - up to Carlos Tevez and Wayne Rooney — neither of whom are orthodox strikers — looks thin indeed.

For a healthy, balanced snack, try a small glass of juice and a couple of crackers with a tablespoon of cream cheese or a thin layer of smooth peanut butter.

If you want the rain jacket to have a «slick» look, try painting it with a few thin coats of shiny, dimensional fabric paint or I even used stained glass paint.

The panes of glass are thin and brittle.

It's made of four millimeter thin acrylic glass and ultra-bright LED lights, shaped into an incredible looking 3D design!

His prototype, named Multi-toe, is made up of thin layers of silicone and clear acrylic on top of a rigid glass sheet.

He also had a slogan — «the new shape of solar» — that encapsulated the idea, much as a cylinder of glass encapsulated the thin - film semiconducting material that made Gronet's solar tubes work.

To visualize this activation, a needle - thin glass lens was inserted into the hypothalamus, and images of flashing neurons were recorded by a miniature, portable microscope attached to the mouse's head.

The control of biological material must have been a bit more lax in the late 1970s (maybe cautiousness inversely correlates with lapel width), because she was somehow able to sneak a piece of my (our) umbilical cord to her lab microtome, where she carved two thin sections and mounted them on glass slides, just for fun.

They are embedding the solar modules in a thin layer of glass.

Put a drop of superfluid on most surfaces, and it spreads out into a thin layer, rather than beading like water on glass.

Drinking two cups of coffee a day over a lifetime may cause your bones to thin, but drinking at least one glass of milk each day seems to offset the effect, say researchers from California.

The flexible cladding, which can withstand temperatures of at least 1200 °C, is a sandwich of three layers of ceramic fibre, each around 0.25 centimetres thick, interspersed with layers of silicon - coated glass fibre and thin aluminium foil.

Materials scientists have coated glass - fibre textiles with a thin layer of porous carbon to make a filter that can remove dangerous compounds down to parts per million levels.

Yet its understructure, a honeycombed lattice of one - inch - thick walls, is so precisely wrought that were it dinner - plate size, its filigree of glass would be wine - goblet thin.

What's left is a thin layer of glass supported by an inch - thick honeycomb structure that is three feet deep at the perimeter and 18 inches in the center.

The research involved applying a thin layer of the silk protein to a glass slide.

The researchers reshaped the profile of these pulses into that of an Airy beam using a thin plate of glass with a particular variation of thickness across the plate.

In one, the mirror will consist of seven thin glass segments, each with several hundred small, spring - loaded screw adjusters attached to the back.

The circuits, called drivers, are printed on the glass in a very thin transparent layer of silicon.

«It's also important in cleanroom procedures, nanofabrication and microprocessor formation,» said Schrader, who pointed out that microprocessors are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates with a thin layer of glass, upon which circuits are laid.

Philips's new display was made possible by the development of a way to print organic electronics onto a thin plastic film — previously, it was only possible to print these components on glass.

It wasn't until 1938 that the Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa and, independently, the British duo of John Allen and Don Misener measured the flow rate of helium below that temperature through a pair of glass disks attached to a plunger and a long, thin glass tube, respectively.

Newton was sufficiently encouraged by this to offer the society another paper on light, which included a description of the way coloured rings of light (now known as Newton's rings) are produced when a lens is separated from a flat sheet of glass by a thin film of air.

Giant digital switches route billions of messages; hair - thin wisps of glass carry thousands of messages simultaneously.

«Light at certain wavelengths can be absorbed out of a thin optical waveguide by a microresonator — which is essentially a tiny glass sphere — when they are brought very close,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

The heart of the underwater imaging system is a camera, a pinhole array to admit light (a thin metal sheet with precise, laser - cut holes), a glass diffuser, and mirrors.

He melted a few specks of the compound to form a thin film between two glass slides.

Until now, thin - film solar cells have been made in vacuum chambers — the semiconductor materials are placed on the glass or metal and then air is pumped out of the chamber, creating pressure that fuses the materials.

The heart of NIST's rice - size atomic clock is a tiny cesium - filled cavity that was fabricated by bonding thin layers of glass onto

First Solar's solar cells — the U.S. best seller — produce electricity when sunlight strikes a thin film of cadmium telluride sandwiched between glass.

Nature's stained - glass windows are buried in Antarctic ice: Polarizing filters reveal the orientation of crystal grains in thin sections of ice pulled up at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide.