— without suffering complete annihilation.
It is a total, utter annihilation.
But this only makes the obsession with death more evocative, since death now appears as simple annihilation, pure absence.
Before detailed analysis of the PAL data measured, it is important to recognize existing positron-electron annihilation paths in pure counterparts of the studied As4S4/ZnS nanocomposites.
Were the reader to continue beyond the opening propositions of the Observations, he would encounter elements of another, older tradition: references to "perfect self-annihilation, and the pure love of God" (OM 2, prop. 67), and quotations of select biblical passages, especially the promise of becoming "partakers of the divine nature" (2 Pet. 1.4).
This is reaction, pure and simple to the economic annihilation of a social class who feel, perhaps rightly, that big government has abandoned them.
If there is something distinctive about a Buddhist secularism, it is that the Buddhist believes in the annihilation of appetite, while the pure secular humanist believes in satisfying our appetites until annihilation makes it impossible.
When a particle meets its antiparticle pair, the resulting annihilation turns their masses into pure energy, as determined by Albert Einstein's equation, E=mc2.
Thus, the detector unit was bombarded with a pure flux of aluminium-penetrating 511-keV annihilation photons.
For instance, Essmann and Mughrabi (1979) observed that at low temperatures (smaller than 20% of the melting temperature), the annihilation distance changes from around 1.5nm for pure edge dislocations to around 50nm for pure screws in copper.
