Seen practically bare, the pristine canyon proffers an existentialist blank check to the future, perfectly expressing the terminal state of modern idealism: rich and powerful, clean out of ideas, an uncertain but dazzling light onto the world.
Even at 5 C the promoting effect of ball-milling results in a remarkable high and stable capacity of 120 mAh g−1 upon cycling, which compares very well with the behavior achieved for Li4Ti5O12 while the pristine material is practically inactive.
As seen, the values of limiting current density (i lim) are practically the same both for the pristine and modified cation-exchange membranes.
The Se/S atom ratio in exchanged samples was practically the same as in the pristine plates (∼3/1), corroborating the preservation of the anionic sublattice.
After annealing, the surface roughness of pristine and gold-coated samples is practically the same.
But in contrast to the rest of the Arabian Peninsula, which is mostly hot, dry and barren, Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria.
However, comparing the SEM images of the pristine MWCNTs and that of the oxidized MWCNTs, there are practically no visual differences between them.
Sitting opposite Ledra Palace, incongruously pristine amid the general ruination of the Buffer Zone, H4C's neutral location is important both symbolically and practically, allowing everyone on the island, whatever those political or emotional obstacles, to come along and interact in a more informal context: in the café, education rooms, or even fringe theatre.
"Every river around here is practically dead, because they are full of sewage," says the biologist Mario Moscatelli who has long campaigned against the way these once pristine lagoons have been destroyed.
