Sentence examples for striking surface from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kaula later led experiments that used lasers flown aboard several Apollo missions to map the topography of the Moon, and he participated in a related mission that used radar to discover striking surface features such as volcanolike structures and great plateaus on Venus.

They are hung so that the striking surface is vertical and are struck in the centre of this surface (the head).

In 1896, Diamond Match Co., turned its book-match department, which it considers a white elephant, over to a young go-getter named Henry C. Traute, who persuaded the company to put the striking surface outside the book, and to print "Close Cover Before Striking".

If you don't use strike-anywhere matches, be sure to store a striking surface with your matches.

Learn how to fold your hand into a solid striking surface first, in order to prepare for the strike: Press the four fingers tightly together.

However, some scorpions have the ability to flatten themselves as thin as a coin, so just hitting the scorpion with your hard striking surface may not be enough to kill it.

Striking surfaces include the hands (particularly the knuckles and the outer edge), ball of the foot, heel, forearm, knee, and elbow.

In this way, the explosive paste carried by the round has an instant to spread over the struck surface, creating a flat, patty-like charge that then detonates.

Few overtly military facilities are on the list, though several sites in Britain are mentioned as being vital to American weapons systems, including BAE Systems plants in three locations where important components are made for the F-35 joint strike fighter and for guided munitions like the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, which combat pilots can use to strike surface targets dozens of miles away.

Glaze, ice coating that forms when supercooled rain, drizzle, or fog drops strike surfaces that have temperatures at or below the freezing point; the accumulated water covers the surface and freezes relatively slowly.

For high-speed progression across a body of water, shore birds and basilisk lizards (Basiliscus basiliscus) support their bodies above the water surface by repeatedly striking the surface with their feet.