In a colour-change strip the liquid crystals are made up of layers of rod-shaped molecules that, like a bundle of straws knocked on to a table, more or less point in the same direction.
It is easy to break one straw, but much harder to break a bundle of straws together.
During the Crusades, Muslim defenders frequently hung bundles of straw against their walls as buffers against stones and rams; in turn, the Crusader archers would set these alight with fire arrows.
Escaping again, Tintin finds "how the Soviets fool the poor idiots who still believe in a Red Paradise" by burning bundles of straw and clanging metal in order to trick visiting English Marxists into believing that non-operational Soviet factories are productive.
Tie individual bundles of straw tightly.
Morphology and orientation of cellulose in the vessels of vascular bundles of wheat straw were studied.
P. exclamans have also been observed occupying artificial nests put out by researchers and consisting of bundles of straws.
"He looked like a bundle of dried straw," said Pirckheimer of his dying friend, supporting speculation today that Dürer had malaria, an ancient and continuing scourge (8 ).
To scatter many drops at once, use a tight bundle of plastic straws, flicked over the surface.
As it does so, each water molecule moves to fill an adjacent lower pressure zone and pulls the nearby water molecules up the xylem (dead elongated cells that act like a bundle of drinking straws).
They were individually introduced into a test pen which included a central lane made of rows of straw bundle.
