Sentence examples for terrestrial elements from inspiring English sources

With Grotrian thus showing the way, Edlén eventually was able to identify the majority of the two dozen known coronal lines with terrestrial elements such as silicon, calcium, and iron.

PC1 (accounting for 69.7% of the variance) had highly negative factor scores for terrestrial elements, such as Al, Si, S, K, Ti, Mn and Fe.

However phrased, Galileo's main move was to de-throne the Aristotelian physical categories of the one celestial (the aether or fifth element) and four terrestrial elements (fire, air, water and earth) and their differential directional natures of motion (circular,  and up and down).

While the four terrestrial elements (earth, water, air and fire) gave rise to the generation and corruption of natural substances by their mutual transformations, aether was unchanging, moving always with a uniform circular motion that was uniquely suited to the celestial spheres, which were eternal.

The stronger associations with fine-particle Ca compared with other major terrestrial elements such as Al and Si suggests that it may be a better tracer of urban road dust.

These isotopes are exceedingly rare, having abundances on the order of one million millionth of the corresponding terrestrial element, which is an isotopic ratio far beyond the capabilities of normal mass spectrometers.

Standing 38ft-high and constructed entirely of old-growth Douglas fir, the acoustically perfect dome rises out of the dusty Mojave Desert like a UFO, embodying the extra-terrestrial elements that inspired its construction. .

The script also kept throwing up possibilities that weren't followed up: the reason for Van Gogh being so tormented was that he was plagued by literal monsters; an extra-terrestrial element to Vincent's gift.

Possible end-members of marine and terrestrial major elements are noted on the axes.

Smaller uplifts between St. Brandon and Mauritius, e.g., Baissac Bank and Soudan Bank (Fig.  3), might have further facilitated spread of terrestrial faunal elements.

The opening of the Strait led to the separation of terrestrial faunal elements in the region into allopatric units [ 3], as in the cases of the spiny-footed lizards Acanthodactylus erythrurus [ 4], or the West Mediterranean newts of the genus Pleurodeles [ 5].