Flaring its muscular grey wings like a stingray leaping out of the river Lea, the Aquatics Centre was planned as the showpiece of the London 2012 Olympic Games, a piece of liquid drama designed by the country's most celebrated queen of the curve, Zaha Hadid.
Surface energy (γS) is one of the few fundamental properties of condensed matter: it defines the equilibrium shape of a crystal, it determines the interfacial behaviour of any piece of liquid or solid against another body, etc.
We thus attached tiny pieces of thermochromic liquid-crystal film (T.L.C. 16 level, Thermographic Measurements, Flintshire, United Kingdom; each responds to a particular temperature with a precision of 1°C) directly on the bottom and top coverslips.
Beurre monte is butter that has been whisked into a couple of tablespoons of liquid, piece by piece, to maintain the emulsion.
In his redesigned unit, a basket under the plug collects larger pieces of food, meaning only liquid gets into the U-bend section, where another two filters separate the oil from the water.
The cactus odor was produced by pieces of fresh cactus and liquid exudate of decaying cladodes from cacti previously collected at the same site as described above.
Remove any dried pieces of paint from the liquid you pour into the mixing container.
On walls and window sills, and tucked into neat stacks, are pieces that deal with "the physics of liquid formation," as he calls some of his earlier work.
Additionally, when the first signs of the disease appeared, UNICEF distributed 5,500 bottles of liquid chlorine, 50,000 pieces of soap and chlorine powder to medical workers and communities in the affected areas.
