Sentence examples for opaque substance from inspiring English sources

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Cliché-verre, also called Glass Print, print made by placing photographic paper beneath a glass plate on which a design has been scratched through a coating of an opaque substance and then exposing it to light.

Severin developed an excellent illustration from a roentgenogram, demonstrating the size and importance of the glenoidal labrum in the newborn, by painting with an opaque substance the dissected edge of the limbus.

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The transmission of electromagnetic wave from normally opaque substances, such as left-handed materials (LHM) and over-dense plasmas, has attracted ever-increasing attentions.

Injection of 2 4 millilitres of cement (combined with a radio-opaque substance such as barium) via a transpedicular approach is usually performed under local anaesthesia combined with neurolept analgesia and may be done as an outpatient procedure or in a short hospital stay.

The in-itself is the opaque matterlike substance that remains the same, whereas the for-itself is consciousness permeated by nothingness.

His first show at Talwar two years ago included a full-size human form that seemed to pass through a gallery wall; for the current show he has cast his own head in an opaque, waxy substance of a kind used to produce air fresheners, so that the self-portrait will dissolve through slow evaporation.

The practice of enameling, however, is an ancient technique in which a semitransparent or opaque glasslike substance is applied to a hard, metallic surface, then fired in a small kiln up to 20 different times.

The minutiae of trade negotiations spanning years may seem eye-glazingly opaque, but their substance promises meaningful help for the world's poor.

Safdie's camera catches the bathers' conversations, laughter, and glances, preserving the image of a camaraderie whose substance remains opaque to us.

The first is a reply to the question that every reader of Eliot, even today, must often ask: "What does it mean?" So many passages have grown familiar in contour that we forget that their substance remains opaque.

In the general language, such units are usually generic and polysemic ('esmalte'enamelmel'), for instance, is defined as 'an opaque or semi-transparent glossy substance that is a type of glass, applied by vitrification to metallic or other hard surfaces for ornament or as a protective coating'9 and it has three meanings, on average, in Portuguese dictionaries).

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