Sentence examples for composition of stone from inspiring English sources

The hardness, weight, and crystalline composition of stone masonry traditionally have been emphasized by devices not necessarily connected with structural methods: rustication (finishing in rough, uneven surfaces), drafting (more refined, linear cutting), and polishing.

Built between 1936 and '37 for Pittsburgh department store magnate, Edgar Kaufman and his family, it's Wright at his best - a composition of stone, wood, and glass cantilevered over cascading water.

The composition of stone, recesses, varying pediments and chimneys of the four blocks is almost reminiscent of the English Baroque style in favour ten years earlier, employed at Seaton Delaval Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh.

It lies five miles to the east of Verona, a town whose apparently careless composition of stone, stucco and terra-cotta, its frescoed Renaissance facades, huge Roman amphitheater and generous array of ruins various, is itself a sort of conspiracy of the picturesque.

The phytochemical composition of stone-fruits strongly depends on the cultivars and on fruit parts (skin and flesh) [5].

They also had two spectrometers that enabled them to determine the mineral composition of stones and boulders, and a little diamond-tipped grinding tool to chip away at the surface of a rock and see what lay beneath.

The current study suggests that the urine EV composition of stone-forming women is similar to that of both control and stone-forming men.

The mineral composition, nature of stone substrate and surrounding environmental conditions are the major determinants of the type and extent of microbial colonization.

A number of factors can influence its efficacy, including chemical composition of the stone, presence of anomalous renal anatomy and the specific location of the stone within the kidney, presence of hydronephrosis, body mass index, and distance of the stone from the surface of the skin.

It reached its highest expression in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, a composition of angular stone forms completed in 1978 that remains the most visible emblem of modern Washington.

The density and composition of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages deposited during the first ca. 20,000 years of lowermost Bed II times show a recurrent pattern of variation across recognized synsedimentary faults that compartmentalized landscapes of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin.