Crystalline and glassy phases can occur together, along with unreacted starting materials and the molecular composition of the porcelain body and of the applied glaze is critically dependent upon the processing technology, firing sequence and kiln temperature.
Had Pfeiffer been thinking like a businessman and not an empire builder, he might have bought DEC's Alpha chip technology, fired the employees (so they could return to a useful life), bulldozed DEC's buildings and returned the land to productivity as a forest.
Until now, there have been only three illumination technologies: fire, from, first, torches, tallow and wax candles and, later, whale and kerosene oil lamps; electric incandescence, famously perfected in 1879; and electric-induced fluorescence, introduced in 1938 by General Electric.
In August 2001, U.S. Technologies fired BDO Seidman as its auditor after the firm said that the company's financial records were disorganized and that some transactions had not been recorded.
Competitive Technologies fired Bechtel and co-worker Wil Jacques, both vice presidents at the time, in June 2003.
Extraction and segmentation of the flame object is the key technology of fire recognition; the accuracy of flame segmentation and extraction is prerequisite to improve accuracy and robustness of the whole detection system.
The first lighting technology was fire, which was used expressly to modify animal behavior: fire allowed human activity to continue past sundown and frightened away human predators.
