In Keller's latest book, "Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide," gellan gum is an ingredient in a recipe for a mango "yolk," a sphere that has a gel exterior surrounding mango juice.
By contrast, the total volume from lakes and rivers, humanity's main source of fresh water, produces a sphere that is a mere 56 km in diameter.
Here and in similar rooms in London and Melbourne, Australia, the walls are lined with 12 speakers, loosely arranged in a sphere, that create a three-dimensional sound field.
The experimental setup involves 50 randomly generated colonies where nuclei, with ellipsoidal geometry, are placed on the surface of a sphere that represents a colony.
So Mackie started tinkering, and after several tries, he came up with the Quickball, a plastic sphere that is a half-inch smaller in diameter than a Wiffle ball but twice as thick.
The bad guy, Orchid, evilly wields a glass sphere that contains a thousand once-good MicroCrawlers that look like spiders, can transmit plague and are capable of murder.
It is evaluated for a set of vectors ui that are the vertices of a tessellated sphere that has a mean nearest-neighbour separation about 10°.
Each Mir has a superstrong personnel sphere that protects a pilot and two observers, and each sphere has tiny portholes designed to withstand the crushing pressures of the deep sea so occupants can peer out.
Another story the couple like to tell involves the lighting fixture in the dining area, a 32-inch-wide white fiberglass sphere that resembles a ghostly planet come to rest in a quiet neighborhood.
The black-lipped pearl oyster from the South Pacific secretes a desirably large, iridescent sphere that has a metallic lustre ranging from gunmetal-gray to onyx, with tinges of blue, violet, rose, or green.
The method developed is tested on a parametric eigenvalue problem for a hydrogen atom on a three-dimensional sphere that has an analytical solution.
