Sentence examples for to be colourless from inspiring English sources

A ray of sunlight is composed of many wavelengths that in combination appear to be colourless.

Sanidine is usually distinguished rather easily from the other alkali feldspars because it typically appears glassy i.e., it tends to be colourless, and much of it is transparent.

Fruit flies have very thin, (only nanometres thick) transparent wings that were once thought to be colourless.

They may be colourless, black, and many shades of red and green.

Albite usually forms brittle, glassy crystals that may be colourless, white, yellow, pink, green, or black.

Pure topaz may be colourless and, when brilliant-cut, has been mistaken for diamond.

The material has high dimensional stability and good resistance to weathering and to shock; it is colourless and highly transparent, but can be tinted or rendered opaque by the addition of other substances.

However, he proved to be rather colourless in this eminent position and was easily eclipsed, in the reign of Henry VIII, by Thomas Wolsey, to whom he had to surrender the chancellorship in 1515.

The PEG boronate ester polymers based on PEGs having molecular weights equal to, or below, 300 g/mol were found to be amorphous, colourless, and highly transparent.

Paragonites are colourless to white; biotites may be black, brown, red to red-brown, greenish brown, and blue-green.

DNA extracts were colourless to brownish, depending on the method used.