Sentence examples for composition is about from inspiring English sources

Its orbit is an ellipse tilted askew compared with the other planets, and its composition is about one-third ice, two-thirds rock.

The optimum composition is about 75 percent silica, 10 percent lime, and 15 percent soda, but even this is too liable to devitrification during certain mechanical forming operations to be satisfactory.

The inner oxide layer is found to be 8 Å and its composition is about the same as the inner oxide layer formed in the phosphate-free solution.

The correlation coefficient between the target composition and the actual composition was about 0.4 (for uniform 19 kinds of amino acids) [ 27] (Table 3).

One of his most critically acclaimed compositions is about the passenger pigeon, a species hunted to extinction in America.

His work has been described as the chamber music of modern art, and the delicate counterpoint of line, composition, and color in "Temple Gardens" is about as Mozartean as painting gets.

But composition is also about what you do with the details, and here Mr. Zorn's file-card structure seems a lazy way out.

An interesting implication of the existence of two alternative two-SBS α-dystrobrevin isoforms ('b' and 'c', i.e. containing exons 10-11b-14 and 10-12-13-14) is that the regulation of α-dystrobrevin SBS composition seems to be about more than mere stoichiometry.

Let us do what we want!" Of course, teaching composition is not merely about letting students do what they want; it's about guiding them in the making of choices.

Chance composition is now talked about mostly in college dance departments.

B.M.I. has close to double that number of creative artists and publishers, with 300,000 affiliates, although its song repertoire of 4.5 million compositions is only about half as large.