Sentence examples for a certain grain from inspiring English sources

With me in that Bundesbahn car, which had, I suppose, survived the war within me was a certain grain of discontentment.

With me in that Bundesbahn car, which had, I suppose, survived the war — within me — was a certain grain of discontentment.

Flannery O'Connor said, and I'll quote: "There is a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once".

However, if precipitation is kinetically hindered, the metastable equilibrium with a certain grain boundary area and a zero grain boundary energy is attained.

The decrease in the slope of the Hall Petch curve and eventually the decrease in hardness below a certain grain size can be explained by a model of grain-boundary sliding [46].

This method balances the elastic energy density stored in the vicinity of a strain center within a certain grain with the free energy shortfall necessary to propagate the first martensite plate in that grain.

The observed intercrystalline fracture does not seem to be a result of a certain texture component, because adjacent grains on both crack wakes with arbitrary orientations were found.

Exposure to several chemicals also increases cancer risk; these chemicals include vinyl chloride (commonly used in plastics manufacturing), thorium dioxide (once used with certain X-ray procedures), aflatoxin (a poison produced by a fungus of spoiled peanuts and certain grain products), and arsenic.

Below a certain critical grain size, the martensitic transformation was completely suppressed in the austenite grain.

There would be an obvious increase in the presence of certain grain species, such as wheat, and a decrease in the wild pre-human flora diversity.

The researchers were probably lucky to stumble onto the effect, as it likely works only for certain grain sizes and cylinder sizes, says Stephan Koehler, a physicist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.