The book relates how chemist Richard Seaton finds that a new metal, X, liberates the "intra-atomic energy of copper" and thus serves as fuel for the Skylark, a spaceship that can travel faster than light.
The harbour, centre of the city's life, was improved in 1908 and 1959 but remains too small to handle large commercial traffic and thus serves only an active local fishing fleet.
The tiger pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes, has been discovered to have one of the smallest known vertebrate genomes (that is, the entire set of chromosomes in an organism) and thus serves as an important experimental biological organism.
But the social wrasse feeds on plankton that comes from the open ocean, and thus serves as a nutrient source for the reef itself, transferring resources from the open ocean to the reef.
A Reality underlying the worlds must be unstructured and neutral, and thus serves no purpose.
It is found that nonlinearity in the upper stage has very little effect and thus serves little purpose.
Curiously, a completely buried ethylene glycol molecule mimics the lactam ring and, thus, serves as a surrogate ligand.
Thus, as Kant puts it, it "drives us to seek a theology" (§85, 440), and thus serves as a preparation or "propadeutic" to theology (§85, 442).
The hierarchy defines the psychological ordering among the attributes required to solve a test problem, and thus serves as the cognitive model of task performance.
Consequently, σ y ⋆ 2 gives an idea of the applicability domain (AD) of the model and thus serves to evaluate the uncertainty of the prediction.
The lies between 0 and 180 degrees, and thus serves as the bin-index with which the pair is recorded into a 180-bin reference table.
