Sentence examples for specimens of known from inspiring English sources

With practice using specimens of known specific gravity, a person can develop the ability to distinguish between minerals that have comparatively small differences in specific gravity by merely lifting them.

This "bomb curve", as it is known, changes so fast that year-by-year differences in the 14C levels of recent specimens should be detectable.To test this hypothesis, Dr Uno and his colleagues looked at 29 specimens of known age, from 1905 to 2008.

From hafted ethnographic and archeological specimens of known status, Hughes distinguished points of thrusting spears, darts, and arrows, which occupied somewhat overlapping segments of continua in mass, cross-section area and perimeter (1998 Tables III IV; see also Ratto 2003 215 216).

Head pictures of sacrificed specimens of known age (= number of LAGs) from post-hatchlings to full adults were analyzed by means of geometric morphometrics.

Heat effects were evaluated following a series of calibration runs by dropping specimens of known heat content, typically pure Ag, into the calorimeter.

The density was calculated by weighing specimens of known volume, and the gas content was obtained from the density ratio of macroporous polystyrene and bulk polystyrene (see the Supporting Information).

While running the culture-negative CSF specimens, isolates of known serotypes were included as a built-in positive control for respective multiplex primer sets.

In "From the Ruins of Empire," his timely and important history of Asian intellectual responses to Western colonialism, Pankaj Mishra quotes one looter who said that to describe "the splendors before our astonished eyes, I should need to dissolve specimens of all known precious stones in liquid gold for ink, and to dip it into a diamond pen tipped with the fantasies of an oriental poet".

The first specimens of Banksiamyces, known then as Tympanis toomansis, were described in 1887.

Scrutiny of the partially preserved vertebral megalodon specimen from Belgium revealed that C. megalodon had a higher vertebral count than specimens of any known shark.

In addition, they claimed that the other specimens of Archaeopteryx known at the time did not have feathers, which is incorrect; the Maxberg and Eichstätt specimens have obvious feathers.