Sentence examples for the composition of material from inspiring English sources

Communications had been scheduled to end today, exactly one year after the craft went into orbit around Eros. Engineers signaled NEAR, for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, to turn on its gamma ray spectrometer, an instrument intended to determine the composition of material on the surface of the asteroid and a few inches below.

These findings suggest that surface engineering technologies can be potentially used to directly control/manufacture the nanoscale surface texture and the composition of material surfaces, thereby to mediate the interaction of proteins with biomaterials.

Those efforts allow scientists to examine the light and determine the chemical makeup of the planet's atmosphere in the same way that chemists use the spectrum of light (the wavelength or colors of light) to analyze the composition of material in a lab.

Further, we allow for diffusion in the bulk material; we allow the composition of material transferred across the interface to differ from the compositions of either phase, with solute drag included as a special case; and we allow for heat flow in both phases.

More generally, Zeno's arguments made it necessary for Greek natural philosophers to develop something more than an everyday conception of the composition of material bodies.

During Apollo 14, the crew members sampled ejecta from Cone crater, a feature close in proximity to the immediate landing site of the mission, which provided insight into the composition of material deep inside the formation.

X-ray fluorescence is a complementary method for the quantitative analysis of the composition of materials.

From Sept. 16 to Sept. 23, a Twin Otter airplane crossed lower Manhattan with an airborne visible-infrared imaging spectrometer, Aviris, that divines the composition of materials a mile or more below by the way they reflect or absorb sunlight.

So how does a theory that makes no assumptions about the composition of materials provide the basis for understanding the chemical and physical properties of those materials?

In that time, scientists have come to understand much about how neutrons -- the uncharged particles that provide ballast to the atom's nucleus -- alter the composition of materials.

In 1940, Beckman developed the quartz spectrophotometer, which analyzes the composition of materials.