Sentences with phrase «sheets of glass as»

A common type of screen technology, found in laptops at the time, resembles a sandwich, with two sheets of glass as the bread — one on top, one on the bottom — and liquid crystals as the sandwich filling.

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Reflecting on a recent business trip to Colombia, the duo recalled their visit to an office that used a simple sheet of glass mounted on poles as a writable surface.

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.

If you put a rectangular neutral - density filter, such as dark glasses, on a sheet of white paper, the filter allows only a certain proportion of light through — say, 50 percent.

As the bomb exploded with an energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT, the sand underneath it melted, producing a thin sheet of mostly green glass, dubbed trinitite.

As «brass vessels» would be impractical to sterilise — and expensive — they used glass bottles with squares of brass sheet immersed in the mixture.

1 ripe, but firm avocado, pitted and peeled 1 cup pumpkin puree, chilled 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 1/3 cup sugar 1 13.5 - ounce can coconut milk, chilled 1 tablespoon powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon coconut butter, such as Nutiva coconut manna (optional) 5 sheets of Graham crackers, crushed into small pieces 4 dessert glasses or small jars

Take from the dresser of deal, Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to cover her face.

Despite its genetic detriments — considerable dimensions, high center of gravity, substantial weight — the Urus hugs the road like a salamander climbing up a sheet of glass, it juggles power and torque like an orangutan brachiating between trees, its responses are as sharp as a chameleon's tongue, and it decelerates like a serpent recoiling from an attack.

That involved a complete redesign of the glass drop mechanism and door / window seals, as well as exterior sheet metal changes.

It started as a rust - free example with all of its original chrome, glass and sheet metal.

Sony has the opportunity to trade the plain old glass for a clear hard plastic sheet with a very fine matte finish that would get rid of the mirror - reflections and greatly reduce glare indoors as well as outdoors.

This is all tucked under a single sheet of glass, but it's not a tie - in with Gorilla Glass or designated as scratch resistant - not that we've been running keys down it - so is best treated with a bit of due glass, but it's not a tie - in with Gorilla Glass or designated as scratch resistant - not that we've been running keys down it - so is best treated with a bit of due Glass or designated as scratch resistant - not that we've been running keys down it - so is best treated with a bit of due care.

As the size of an epaper display increases, so does it susceptibility to physical damage; a 31.2» eink panel, for example, is in essence only a 1 mm (0.04 in) thin sheet of glass.

In 1968, he embarked on his series of Igloos, three - dimensional volumes conceived as nomadic shelters, made with sheets of glass and various other materials (animal skin, branches, bark), depending on the context in which the particular igloo was made.

Μade of sheets of glass, which are held to one another at angles and produce the illusion of - scrap, through their many levels of light diffusion that removes the concept of architectural environment, as we know it, since the wall, the shadows and the light create the sensation of swinging.

There is also a sense of tame psychedelia that pervades in all three artists» works, from Bergstrom's small formalist paintings that use text as a compositional device — a blue and white canvas that spells Bad Trip, abstractly scrawled across the canvas — to Norton's An Altered State, where peyote and poppies are pressed between sheets of glass and fired, installed on the wall.

Printed in layers on an immense sheet of glass, the piece was installed as part of the Woodward's building in East Vancouver.

The glass that makes up a completed panel was used in the making of the film, though instead of servicing a tactile function such as covering an overhead projector, the sheets of glass become the objects of study in the work about Rules of Civility.

The mirrored portion of Eliasson's sheet of glass multiplies its immediate surroundings and the tangled green aura beyond the windows; then, as the mirroring gives way to an expanse of transparent glass, it reveals the entrance hall behind, seen across an internal courtyard in a confusion of reflection and refraction.

By contrast, and in spite of Goldberg's pedestrian choice of materials, the front space has a defiantly monumental feel: set on coffee - coloured carpeting, an army of ornamental glass bowls filled with water are caught, as if suffocating, under a thin sheet of sheer plastic weighed down with gold sequins.

With sheet metal, tin plate, iron wire, nails, and scraps of wood, he created a life - size guitar, violins, a mandolin, a clarinet, and drinking glasses that elevated the stature of still life to a subject as worthy as portrait heads and standing figures.

Creating sculptures out of materials such as sheets of glass, foam, metal, cement, and various found objects, Dave Hardy composes his sculptures» seemingly precarious poise as an intentionally engineered defiance of gravity.

The museum's architect, Tadao Ando, essentially treats light as a material that is as necessary as the concrete of the walls, the steel supports, the granite floors, and the sheets of glass that connect the museum interior to the nature and city that surrounds it.

A piece such as «Untitled 23 - 4» (2010) appears to depict from above disheveled stacks of smoky plate glass or acrylic sheet.

As we still slowly ascended... and the surface temperature of the soil fell to the freezing point the solar radiation became intenser... near the summit the temperature in a copper vessel, over which lay two sheets of plain window glass, rose above the boiling point of water, and it was certain that we could boil water by the solar rays in such a vessel among the snow fields.

It stacks up a heaving spec sheet just as specs begin to matter least, it introduces an all - glass design just as others start to move away from it, and, most importantly, it fails to provide a compelling argument for purchasing it ahead of HTC, Samsung, or even LG's alternatives.

Need to angle the light on the surface to see them but it worries me as it's the same sheet of glass covering the camera.

An Old Chicken Coop Turned Coffee Table - Here they take an old chicken coop and add four casters, and a sheet of glass, and you have a distressed looking table which can be used as an end table or a coffee table in a living room.