Sentence examples for ground the device from inspiring English sources

Touched to the ground, the device, an X-ray fluorescence scanner, can measure the soil's lead content in less than a minute, said Alexander van Geen, a geochemist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an author of the study, which is in the current issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

In 14 on-board events and 3 on the ground, the devices were used, and four of the victims survived; the F.A.A. checked later and found these passengers still alive.

The rat then falls to the ground, and the device — this is the beauty part — automatically resets itself.

After 1 year, 12 of the 15 (80%) households still had a Tippy Tap installed, with evidence of use (water in the container and on the ground around the device).

"We really wanted to avoid that by having eyes and ears on the ground". The donated devices are provided to each school for at least 5 years, or their lifespan.

The global positioning and communications systems on the 787 and other large jets are so sophisticated that they constantly relay the planes' locations to computers on the ground, making the devices less critical.

Because they were positioned at ground level, the devices could not image the reactor building basements and so could not pin down where the fuel is or its condition.

While the latest ITC ruling noted that Apple's iPhone 3G model and several Blackberry devices had infringed the patent, the judge indicated this was not grounds for the devices to be banned from sale in the US, on the grounds that the innovation did not deserve its patent status.

The idea is to implement two different ground planes under the device to control separately the electrostatic properties of the channel and the drift regions.

He said his client ground TNT for the device, loaded it onto a truck and knew he was helping to assemble and deliver a bomb, but was acting under the orders of "higher-ups" without knowing their identities or goals.

Read the directions carefully, to make sure your particular machine can do this, before inserting the ground beans into the device.