Bent over boiling crucibles in their shadowy laboratories, squeezing bellows before transformative flames and poring over obscure formulas, some alchemists stumbled on techniques and reactions of great value to later chemists.
"When the first pictures came out it was an extraordinary event," he recalls.Suddenly, people started to pay attention, as Dr Mandelbrot's obscure formulas and eccentric geometrical theories were revealed as the source of images of astonishing beauty and complexity.
Individual physicians provide services based on the needs of the patient in front of them — not on an obscure national formula.
But the Kerry campaign said that that was really a function of more low-income students in need of the grants, and that a change in an obscure federal formula last summer meant that 84,000 students at the upper end of the income scale for Pell grants had been disqualified.
Mr. Flynt has exhibited obscure mathematical formulas, photographs of "Samo" (early Jean-Michel Basquiat) graffiti, and a variety of matchstick games in the gallery.
First, chemical names may appear in various forms, ranging from the popular and human-readable trivial and brand names to the more obscure abbreviations, molecular formulas and database identifiers, to long nomenclature-conforming expressions, e.g., International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPACC) names and Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System (SMILES) strings [6 8].
Did he have a magic formula, some obscure measure of value that would unlock the secrets of the market to the rest of us mere mortals?
In the various colloquies between Protestants and Catholics or between German Lutheran and Swiss Reform churchmen, Bucer often advocated the use of obscure language and ambiguous formulas when explicit agreement between the opposing parties was impossible to attain.
He argues that the Ninth Circuit was correct, and no amount of "obscure and powerful verbal formulas" should mislead people into thinking otherwise.
Jazz is a serious and noble pursuit, with a culture and history of its own, fed by a pool of nuts-and-bolts techniques that can to outsiders feel as obscure and nebulous as the formula for Coca-Cola.
