The photohistorian Eugenia Parry Janis has speculated that the albumen print drove the calotype to ground in France because the Second Empire's taste for technical brilliance and spectacular surfaces were better served by glass negatives.
New Mexico is spectacular on the surface, but at least one of the state's natural treasures lies underground at Carlsbad Caverns national park.
Implantation of boron ions into metals and alloys, through ion implantation or ion beam deposition, results in a spectacular increase in surface resistance and microhardness.
Natural Bridge Caverns, 347 feet (106 metres) below the earth's surface, contain spectacular cave formations and a mirror lake.
They achieved spectacular results on the surfaces.
Their brash yet subtle iridescent surfaces look spectacular beneath the Santa Monica museum's skylights.
Spectacular pictures of the surfaces of Mars and other planets are almost routine now, a development due in large part to Murray's forceful advocacy that studying images of the surfaces of other planets could help us learn about our own.
Thirty thousand years after painters were using red ochre and black charcoal at Chauvet Cave, the British artist Roger Hiorns coated a flat in south London with copper sulphate solution to breed spectacular blue crystals on every surface.
This was not just a football tournament but a history lesson and it soon became apparent that even the lightest attempt to scratch the surface, whether in spectacular and cosmopolitan Kiev or grim rust-belt Donetsk, was likely to release a fountain of blood, some of it centuries old but some spilt within living memory.
A spectacular ablation of the carbonaceous surface even seems to occur (special case of glassy carbon) when large electricity amounts are used, producing a substantial loss of electrode mass.
