Sentences with phrase «own peculiar properties»

«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.

The emergence of chemistry had a transformative effect on the universe because of a peculiar property of atomic hydrogen: If you take a big cloud of hydrogen atoms and let it collapse, it gets hotter and hotter until all the bound - up energy keeps it from shrinking any further.

Its peculiar properties suggest a new era in physics could be about to dawn

«It is the presence of this highly ordered arrangement of water molecules, mixed with other disordered arrangements that gives water its peculiar properties.

West Virginia University chemist Kenneth Showalter has found a better way of negotiating a maze — one that takes advantage of the peculiar properties not of rats but of chemical waves.

When such a photon collides with a sodium atom, the sodium's own peculiar properties allow it to absorb the photon's angular momentum.

These spaces have quite peculiar properties.

As galaxies gradually came to be understood as collections of stars like our Milky Way, the peculiar properties of some galaxies gained interest.

US 708 has another peculiar property in marked contrast to other hypervelocity stars: it is a rapidly rotating, compact helium star likely formed by interaction with a close companion.

Fighting games, especially Street Fighter, have the peculiar property of turning its most devoted players into the subject material, and I say this with all seriousness.

I do understand that the winds are driven by the uneven heating of the earth and, in turn, the winds effect surface currents, but the oceans of water, with it's peculiar properties, have an outsized effect.

Not exact matches

But the principle of modification is perfectly general throughout nature, and represents no property peculiar to living bodies.»

An outstanding example is the time - reversal invariant topological insulator, relatively new class of material with peculiar electronic properties, that is well understood as a symmetry - protected topological (SPT) material.

The oxide superconductors, particularly those recently discovered that are based on La2CuO4, have a set of peculiarities that suggest a common, unique mechanism: they tend in every case to occur near a metal - insulator transition into an odd - electron insulator with peculiar magnetic properties.

Perhaps their oddest property relates to the peculiar way in which their electrons behave.

For example, he is using data from AFLOWlib to study why some alloys can form metallic glass — a peculiar form of metal with a disordered microscopic structure that gives it special electric and magnetic properties.

Due to their peculiar quantum mechanical properties, currents induced by a magnetic field in Moebius molecules flow in the direction opposite to that they would take in normal rings.

Because of their peculiar quantum mechanical properties these structures are interesting for applications in molecular electronics and optoelectronics.

No known object reproduces well the properties of planets b and c. Nevertheless, we find that the spectra and WISE photometry of peculiar and / or young early - T dwarfs reddened by submicron grains made of corundum, iron, enstatite, or forsterite successfully reproduce the SED of these two planets.

The Year's Most Peculiar Cameo: Angela Lansbury plays the owner of Tavern on the Green, which is the final property Mr. Popper needs to acquire in order to be made a partner at his big company.

So next time you catch your dog chewing, don't be so sad about it, the problem is not peculiar to your dog, you only need to find a solution that will enable them not to destroy your important properties such as furniture when they embark on their chewing frenzy.

Jonathan Jones: With more derelict properties in London comes the reopening of one of this year's most peculiar artworks

[Response: Getting at your question in a slightly different way, one thing that is peculiar about eddies embedded in the western boundary currents (there are analogies for the atmosphere too, e.g. the jet stream), is that they exhibit the property of «negative viscosity».

BTW, I wonder if part of the resolution to this matter may be related to quantum effects, spooky action at a distance (recent experiments regarding quantum entanglement appear to prove Einstein was wrong on this question), or related to properties of photons which give rise to some very peculiar optical effects, in which it seems that the photons somehow know where they are going before they get there?

That's because of a peculiar geometric property of Keplerian orbits, which cancels variations along a tropical year.

It was only then that Stambovsky came to learn of the property's peculiar history: namely, it was a haunted house.

My history is focused on the particular, if not peculiar, class of intellectual property associated with learning and the learned, which is to say with works of scholarship and research.

If one looks at the damage to the entire building's value — as the cases and Criminal Code seems to imply, going down that road can lead to peculiar destinations: Can you not argue that the monetary damage to the entire real estate property value remains the same (hence, no damage!)

These endeavors led to experience in commercial property development, including commercial financing, planning, zoning, government requirements and regulations, and all of the many aspects that are peculiar to this type of development.