Some of the conclusions drawn from both laboratory studies and field experience are: (1) Use of plain rods as inserts has proved to be unsatisfactory as penetration of seawater at the insert anode interface occurs, thus reducing the performance of the cathodic protection system.
However, on a more global scale, bacterial shapes range from the plain (rods, spheres, strings) to the outlandish (branched, curved, coiled, spiraled, star-shaped), to the truly bizarre (fluted and tentacled) [ 5].
Panel curtains, eyelet curtains and tab top curtains are meant to hang from a plain round rod.
The first involves Escherichia coli, a plain cylindrical rod that is normally about 1 μm in diameter and 2 μm long.
In this paper, the performance improvement of glulam post-to-beam connections reinforced by plain round rods (PRRs) and self-tapping screws (STSs) were compared.
The roughness was determined for uncoated rods (polished plain titanium) and for coated rods using a Mitutoyo Surftest SJ301 roughness tester (Mitutoyo Corp., Kawasaki, Japan), and it was the same for both of them.
The individual components of a wrought-iron design are often plain or twisted rods, with or without chisel-mark incisions.
Like an austere sculpture, the three-piece set for "A Huey P. Newton Story," which opened Sunday at Woolly Mammoth, stands isolated in light before the play begins: a mike on a swing rod, a plain wooden chair and one of those big old-fashioned columnar ashtrays with the chrome top and black body.
ROD CARLSON White Plains, N.Y.
Spruce almighty "If you are bored, embellish: stitch some trim to your plain linen curtains or paint your curtain rod a fun colour – hot pink, say.
