Sentence examples for natural flaws from inspiring English sources

The first attempts at cutting and faceting were aimed at improving the appearance of stones by covering natural flaws.

1882 Troyes, France 1960 Troyes, France Maurice Marinot, (born 1882, Troyes, Fr. died 1960, Troyes), French painter and glassmaker who was one of the first 20th-century glassworkers to exploit the aesthetic qualities of weight and mass and one of the first to incorporate bubbles and other natural flaws as elements of design.

Although credit card fraud on the Internet is thought to be slightly higher than in real-world transactions, and the speed and reach of the network can make its consequences far more serious, Mr. Leuhr said, "almost always, fraud springs from the natural flaws in human behavior," such as writing down passwords or leaving credit card receipts in the garbage.

At higher velocities, hydrodynamic effects reduce growth rates under conditions that would rarely pertain for small natural flaws in devices.

In HES-ECC, the introduction of artificial flaws of a size larger than the natural flaws successfully restores the tensile ductility.

The study suggests that maximum reliability is achieved when the T-curve is sufficiently strong to stabilize the propagation of natural flaws en route to failure.

"The natural flaw of horror as a genre is that, ninety-nine per cent of the time, it's a clandestine genre," he said.

Further, during cooling, the presence of quartz particles also increases natural flaw size.

However, if the correct range of natural flaw sizes is not present, artificial means to introduce them can be considered.

In order to compare the flaw tolerancy of matrices, natural flaw structure of half of the specimens were modified by using poly-ethylene beads (at 3 mm diameter).

It was verified that, in the slowly cooled material, the modulus of elasticity and fracture energy increased, and natural flaw size decreased as quartz particle size decreased.