With his oversized glasses, closely cropped cranium and faintly mechanical gait, there is something of the Brains from Thunderbirds about Heston Blumenthal.
Somewhat unexpectedly, however, the trace element pattern of these three high magnesia fragments resembles those of the early Byzantine glasses closely (Fig. 3).
Use a magnifying glass to closely observe the rim of the portrait.
The Gordion glasses have consistently low iron concentrations, and most of the Jebel Khalid, Tel Anafa and Pherai glasses group closely with them.
"It's like the old Chinese curse," said Ms. Brown, a talkative woman with glasses and closely cropped hair.
He is a short and compact man, with wire-rimmed glasses, a closely trimmed beard, and somewhat stubby arms that make him look like a cartoon character.
With its gas lamps, Tiffany shades and the original soda fountain encased in glass, it more closely resembles an Addams family museum than a Norman Rockwell ice cream parlor.
He pioneered in the use of a coarse grating (for example, a glass plate with closely spaced parallel lines etched into it) in the course of measurement of the separation of double stars; the technique has found widespread use in determining stellar magnitude and colour.
Rather than stashing big panels up there, Tesla will offer high-efficiency glass tiles that closely resemble regular roofing material.
Δα, defined as the change of thermal diffusivity during the glass transition, was closely related to the glass transition temperatures and to the change in heat capacity, ΔCp.
