In 2010 the fragile plates were the sovereign countries of the euro zone.
But some harried office junior decided to post back the fragile glass plate in said Jiffy, with the inevitable consequences.
Such thin plates or foils become so fragile that they need to be protected from mechanical damage.
Ms. Olsen, a freelance scholar, offers an especially lucid description of Cameron's arduous techniques, involving nasty chemicals, fragile glass plates and endless endurance.
And somehow, in spite of all this, the town's stock of fragile glass-plate photo negatives and nitrate film survived the years of upheaval – though with considerable water damage.
Though the effort proved nothing in practical terms, it had passed through some of the most dramatic midwinter terrain in North America, and Carvalho captured an extraordinary visual record on the fragile copper plates of his daguerreotypes.
In 1878, positioned on the exclusive summit of Nob Hill, where the railway magnates and goldmine owners had their mansions, he set up a camera that was itself a small skyscraper – a wooden box on a tripod that had to be stabilised to resist the high winds, with heavy, fearfully fragile glass plates fitted inside it – and photographed the whole of the city that sprawled below.
The origins of specialisation can be traced back to the technical nature of X-ray image capture and perhaps more significantly the difficulty of exposing, transporting and developing images on fragile glass plates for subsequent interpretation.
The plates are fragile because the burrs are easily flattened down by the printing pressure.
Suction based attachment systems for pick and place handling of fragile objects like glass plates or optical lenses are energy-consuming and noisy and fail at reduced air pressure, which is essential, e.g., in chemical and physical vapor deposition processes.
