If you were to pitch Test cricket now as a global sport – five days of weather-bound, opaque and often imperceptible struggle – you wouldn't get it past the first audition.
Thin sections of the granite sample from B1 show distinct weathering reactions of opaque minerals to reddish secondary minerals that indicate the oxidation of pyrite to goethite (Figure 8).
The hailstones that fall from deep, vigorous clouds in warm weather consist of a core surrounded by several alternate layers of clear and opaque ice.
The glass turns from opaque to transparent with the addition of electricity, allowing the sculpture to mimic the look and behavior of weather conditions from cities around the world.
The material has high dimensional stability and good resistance to weathering and to shock; it is colourless and highly transparent, but can be tinted or rendered opaque by the addition of other substances.
This, combined with the opaque and complex politics of the new Iraq, may lead some to argue that the British ability to make the weather in Iraq is at a post-invasion low.
Yet the weather in "Bleak House" is unmistakably symbolic: the mud is that of a hopelessly sullied culture, the fog that of an opaque and unnavigable legal system.
Parties' accounts are opaque.
