How To Use Violet In A Sentence
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By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
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AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
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Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
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But it may be a bit ultra violet for most.
The Sun
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Furthermore, the xerogels prepared from the organogels showed a striking property of adsorbing dyes such as crystal violet from water.
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The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The rogues ransack the place in search of a treasure map, offing the men and carting the women, including feisty Violet Miranda, onto a ship run by the dastardly but suave Captain Calico Jack.
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I open my eyes and there are her deep, cold, violet, malicious eyes, staring at me.
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Then the mixture is applied to a cleaned device surface and activated by ultraviolet light.
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Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
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Test your different textiles for color fastness and degradation to long-term ultraviolet exposure.
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`Maybe my mother will make me a dress of green velvet," went on the even-tempered Violet.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
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Other flower petal choices are rose, nasturtium, borage, dandelions and violets.
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The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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THE REDKNAPP FILEBorn 2 March 1947 in Poplar, east London, the only child of Henry Redknapp, a docker, and his wife, Violet.
Harry Redknapp: the people's manager | Observer profile
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A fitful breeze stirred the pale foliage over her head, now and then showering her with pink petals from the lingering blossoms; from beneath her rose the damp sweet fragrance of soft earth and green grass, nearby a meadow-lark sang plaintively; somewhere a robin called arrogantly to his mate in the nest; from the valley, stretching below the sloping orchard, a violet mist lifted.
Red-Robin
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The patent is issued for ultraviolet protective coatings for application to heat sensitive record materials and other photodegradable printed matter.
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Erythronium dens-canis is the true dog's tooth violet, the name comes from the shape of the corm, and has rose coloured flowers on 10 cm stems and purple marked leaves.
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If you can create a bank on which to grow your hedge, this will provide more opportunities for plants like primroses, violets and stitchworts.
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David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal The characteristic colors of Pulau Ketam's stilt structures might be described as "beachy" -- the likes of bottle green with electric blue, salmon pink and violet, carrot orange and gold.
Island Living
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an ultraviolet lamp
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The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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No flower born in the summertime was missing from it, not even the flower of the broom, the violet, the periwinkle, or any yellow, indigo, or white flower.
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The young newsboy has purchased a bunch of violets, signifying fidelity, and has placed them on the newspaper billboard.
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But one other thing that helps is ultraviolet light.
Times, Sunday Times
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I never managed to get a copy of the book with the violet cover, though on one visit to the Soviet Union I did manage to find a collection of Nezhmetdinov's best games.
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You may put your African violet on a self-watering system to ensure a constant, optimum level of moisture.
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_drops of water_ -- colours vary with size of drops, the smaller the drop the lighter the colours and nearer to the violet end of the spectrum -- hence white rainbow as seen on the Barrier, very small drops.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
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Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta.
Pretty Woman
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She pictured herself with pink lipstick and violet nail polish and a little blush.
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Research published in 1994 suggests that increased ultraviolet radiation caused by stratospheric ozone depletion may be killing frog eggs.
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When will the seakale be fit to cut, and when will the crocuses come up? will the violets be sweeter than ever? and the geranium cuttings, are they thriving? we have dug, and manured, and sown, and we look forward to the reaping, and to see our garners full.
Castle Richmond
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fireworks, Fourth of July, United States, Independence Day Peacock Feather/Dragonfly: Pyrotechnicians agree that the blue-violet shades of this peacock feather are the most challenging to formulate.
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He was dressed in the finest of silks, violet in colour, with a dark cape billowing over his shoulders.
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Ancient thick walls and decorated stones, bladder campion and violets threaded through the grass.
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The claims of mutations refer to natural phenomena; the triangles are a normal pattern variant in the Bolson tortoise populations and the pads of nopal coyotillo turn a shade of violet during a dry spell.
The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
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Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta.
Archive 2008-03-01
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A four-poster bed took up half the room, veiled in long, sheer violet curtains and gold tassels.
Rogue Oracle
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She was wearing a gardener's outfit and her hair appeared to be a garden of its own, with lilies, violets, roses and daisies, the base of the hair was a grassy green.
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In order to raise healthy African violet you must treat them just so.
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In winter, the stems, or canes, turn from green to red, which helps protect them from ultraviolet rays and oxidation.
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The uranium gives it a yellow or green colour and makes it glow under ultraviolet light.
Times, Sunday Times
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The eastern slopes of Erebus were violet at first, and then they were bathe in rosy pink alpenglow and, between two and three o'clock, when the sun rose above WindVane Hill, they became sunflower yellow.
Terra Incognita
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His dark-gold hair, damp and draggled, hung into his eyes, which were dilated and sunk into violet pools; his blank beautiful face was grey and sweating, his entire frame racked with shivering.
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Deep violet pools caught him in their depths and gently wrung a smile from his aching skull.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Most threatening of these for the marine ecosystem is the exposure to increased ultra-violet radiation through the depletion of the ozone layer.
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Colour is a notable feature of the interior and comes in many hues of dusky pink through to violet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Deep ultraviolet photolithographically defined ultra-thin films for selective cell adhesion and outgrowth and method of manufacturing the same and devices containing the same
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African violets, gloxinias and achimenes are beautiful when in bloom, but pretty dull otherwise.
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He is evident here, too, as a distinctive colourist, preferring quieter pinks, violets and yellows to the bolder oranges, reds, greens and blues of Bellini and Titian.
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Violet leaves, wild tansie, succory-roots, large mace, raisins, and damask prunes boil'd with a chicken and a crust of bread.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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Leading the child slave rebellion are the seven Vivian girl princesses: Daisy, Hettie, Violet, Joice, Jennie, Angeline and Catherine...
Jane Chafin: In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger by Jessica Yu
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The new licences meet international standards, featuring micro-printing, holograms and images only visible in ultraviolet light.
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Below the Piton, lichens begin to cover the scorious and lustrous lava: a violet, * (* Viola cheiranthifolia.) akin to the
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads, and they make appealing decorations for a cake.
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In late July 1914, he and Violet spent a few days with friends near Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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A solarium is a device emitting ultraviolet rays used to produce a cosmetic tan.
News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times.
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Metal carbonyls have high oscillator strength, large absorption coefficients, and strong electronic resonance in the visible and ultraviolet regimes, making them excellent spectroscopic probes.
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The Girls, The Collectors, and The Life
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If ozone deterioration persisted, they warned, solar ultraviolet radiation would flood Earth.
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SUSPEN intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers.
Long-term change and variability in surface UV irradiance in the Arctic
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The uranium gives it a yellow or green colour and makes it glow under ultraviolet light.
Times, Sunday Times
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So make sure to take a hat, sunglasses with ultra-violet protection and plenty of sunblock and high-factor suncream.
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With her puff of black hair and sharp violet eyes, she shone out from among the other homogenous bland and blonde MGM beauties of her time, suggesting intelligence behind the acting.
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The band from 0.1 to 0.4 micrometers is called ultraviolet radiation.
Electromagnetic radiation
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Many flowers are edible, the most common culinary varieties being calendula, chrysanthemum, daylily, nasturtium, pansy, violet and zucchini.
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Although the ultraviolet ray only occupies the sunlight 3 %, also the suitable ultraviolet radiation has the sterilization.
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The crystals fluoresce and phosphoresce a weak pale yellowish-green in ultraviolet radiation.
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And what would you think of a wealth of gentians, large and small; great yellow arnicas; beautiful Martagon lilies; and St. - Bruno lilies; of every variety of daphne; of androsace, with its rose-coloured clusters; of the flame-coloured orchis; of saxifrage; of great, velvety campanulas; of pretty violet asters, wrapped in little, cravat-like tufting, to protect them from the cold?
Samuel Brohl and Company
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In addition to its suite of cameras, Skylab was stocked with tons of scientific equipment, including coronagraphs, spectrometers, and ultraviolet and X-ray telescopes.
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Now that I had chance to see her eyes closely I realized that they were not the dark blue I had first thought but a smoky violet colour.
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My lucky flower is violet, and the permanent precious stone in my life is purple crystal!
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Also detectable in sheltered spots in woods are the dark green, heart-shaped leaves of sweet violets.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an upset that stunned the Sandinista machine and its American sympathizers, Nicaraguans went for challenger Violeta Chamorro, who won 55% of the vote to Mr. Ortega's 41%.
Ortega Won't Let Go of Nicaragua
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Then, one day, a lovely sunny day with great tufts of primroses under the hazels, and many violets dotting the paths, she came in the afternoon to the coops and there was one tiny, tiny perky chicken tinily prancing round in front of a coop, and the mother hen clucking in terror.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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When potting African violets, take care to set the plant so that the crown is just above the surface and the soil is firmly pressed around it.
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Her striking sapphire eyes looked violet, framed by her straight bangs and perfectly arched eyebrows.
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The camelia is a more lordly flower, Excellency, but for me I like the violets.
The Children of the King
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* Next time, I shall use the bleach more extensively, because what I have now is a browny-plum with beautiful violet highlights, and what I would like next time is just beautiful violet hair with browny-plum lowlights.
June 15th, 2009
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PLEBEIA; an acerose LEUCOPOGON; a species of violet, with small, densely-spiked flowers (was covered with wild bees in search of its honey).
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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The ultraviolet “rays” are not visible; thus it is incorrect to call ultraviolet energy ultraviolet “light.”
The New Super-Nutrition
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The whole rite of this day is celebrated in violet vestments; therefore, this change of vestments present no particular difficulties.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms
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The three best known varieties are; tangy cracked green olives soaked in a salt brine, delicate tan or violet olives, and sharp, dry-cured, black olives.
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A layer of ozone gas in the stratosphere helps to protect the Earth from the full onslaught of the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The violets, the marigold, the cannas; they were all gone in favor of the thorned monstrosities.
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The British also had developed a device called a ceilometer, which triangulated ultraviolet rays to calculate how low clouds were over the three Berlin airports.
Daring Young Men
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Metallocenes are useful in industrial chemistry as reducing agents, anti-knock agents for internal combustion engine fuels, absorbers of ultraviolet light, and free radical scavengers.
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In addition to its suite of cameras, Skylab was stocked with tons of scientific equipment, including coronagraphs, spectrometers, and ultraviolet and X-ray telescopes.
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Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ is still blooming, the first flowers opened in July.
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With final ultraviolet light treatment, the effluent has been treated for everything but viruses.
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Spring flowers - celandines, primroses, violets, wood anemones - were followed by pyramid and early purple orchids, wild thyme and rockrose.
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Under ultra-violet light it glows and the DNA code can be read under a microscope.
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The gluten also shields the helpful microbes from the sun's lethal ultraviolet rays.
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Finally, Mike, James, and Violet gave me a net for the volleyball.
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Cooked Tomatoes When fresh tomatoes are cooked down to make a thick sauce, they gain some flavors—notably rose- and violet-like fragments of the carotenoid pigments—but they lose the fresh “green” notes provided by unstable fragments of fatty acids and by a particular sulfur compound a thiazole.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Its leaves are slightly wrinkled, velvety and grey-green in colour, the flowers are pale lavender, boldly veined with deep violet.
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After a moment he raised his head to gaze down into violet eyes lifted innocently to his.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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When many sunspots are visible, the Sun is somewhat brighter than in ‘quiet’ times and radiates considerably more in the ultraviolet.
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High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun.
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It was a pretty animal, fairly large and muscular for a cat with a silky, dark blue-black coat and violet eyes.
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Ozone is produced by the reaction between oxygen and ultra-violet light.
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Each eye possesses trinocular vision and can see into the ultraviolet spectrum.
Nessus Diary Entry
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Plant mitsuba with other herbs of similar culture such as sweet cicely, chervil, bee balm, lamium, lungwort, violets, and woodland strawberries.
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New and practical staining techniques on frozen tissues, such as modified trichrome and crystal violet stains, are welcome additions.
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It survived heat, radiation and ultraviolet light.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the alternatives to traditional chemical disinfection is the use of ultraviolet energy.
How Safe is Your Water?
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Rubidium and cesium flames are reddish violet or magenta.
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Not surprisingly, the word violet is derived from the flower of the same name via the French violette or viola, and is cognate with the Greek ion, from which the word iodine is derived.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color
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Right, the same flower as seen by a bee, photographed in ultraviolet light.
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Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you. Amy Tan
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Objectives : To evaluate the therapeutic effects of acute superficial phlebitis with ultraviolet Irradiation and ultrashort wave therapy.
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Description: Pale violet powder, insoluble in water, but soluble in mineral acids, It can readily absorb moisture and carbon dioxide.
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However, color display as well as camouflage is likely to involve visual signals, ambient light, and/or photoreceptors notably active in the near ultraviolet to which humans are not sensitive.
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The shy emerald mantles the valleys and fledges the heights; the pussy-willows tremble by lake and stream; the wild crocus brims the hollows with a haze of violet; trailing his last ragged pennants of snow on the hills, winter makes his sullen retreat.
The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
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The audience thought the corpulent soprano they'd cast was hilarious as Violetta.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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I don't have an ultraviolet lamp with me," Jake said, balancing the brooch on his palm," but I suspect this will fluoresce white.
AMBERBEACH
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_Millon's reagent_, at the boiling solution, colours the natural silks violet: the lustra-celluloses give no reaction.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
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Cream violet and littleleaf crowfoot are common on the stream banks.
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Ultraviolet spectrum is applied to analyze the differences of varying decoctions of "Jade-Screen Powder".
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The arrival of spring is associated with the flowers of the hawthorn, the return of the swifts and, of course, the violet-blue carpets of bluebells.
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The D'Arsonval machine was a type of Violet Ray Generator, and Nagelschmidt apparatus was diathermy.
Bartitsu
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One quite plausible possibility is the absorption of ultraviolet light.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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Mally's violet eyes widened and she opened her mouth, trying to speak, but no words came out.
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She tried to hand him a glass of water, but he shook his head, instead motioning to a tall violet bottle standing in the middle of a dozen other medicines on his bedside table.
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The balsamic odors (chiefly aldehydes, Rimmel's jasmin, violet, and balsamic series, with the chemical types: terpineol, ionone, vanillin).
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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hitori sumire, a single violet, contains the phrase hitori sumi, living alone
The Best American Poetry 2010
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One puzzle was how the bacteria could survive the intense ultraviolet rays of the sunshine so high up in the atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that be had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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These A5 sized cards are based on the eight main colours of the spectrum - magenta, violet, blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red.
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The usual photographic plates, which have their principal sensibility in the violet parts of the spectrum, give us the _photographic_ magnitudes of the stars.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics
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Putting a lacquer on the outside of a piece of timber and having zinc oxide nano particulates embedded in that lacquer makes that lacquer protective against ultra violet radiation.
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The character of Dash is clearly intended to give young boys an entry point into the film and he is a roaring success, with older sister Violet filling the same part for the female crowd.
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They, along with the self sown tradescantias, violets, hollyhocks and dame's rocket are part of the greater urban garden.
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For example, the zebrafinch is a highly communal bird, but the congeneric violet-eared waxbill is highly asocial.
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Described as ‘feisty’ and partial to a feast of rotting vegetables, baby Great Land Crabs are often tan in colour, turning a deep shade of violet as they mature.
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It is advantageous in that it protects the waterproofing from damage by ultraviolet radiation, and precludes the need for tiles or other shingles.
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Gather early summer flowers like violets, yarrow and red clover to dry for teas and for tincturing.
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As only she could, Violet had noticed how Althia's reading of them irked him and gleefully added more salt to the wound by laughing merrily whenever she spoke.
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But if anything's clear after examining the life of the Pulitzer prizewinning author of The Color Purple, it's that she's no shrinking violet.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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Ozone shields the planet from the effects of the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
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It is just one in a series of books about her white cat, Violet, who also lives on Wistoria Lane.
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This shortens the life of blooms and makes the violet unthrifty.
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The uralolite exhibits faint green fluorescence in shortwave ultraviolet radiation.
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Exposure to ultraviolet light is closely linked to skin cancer.
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Delicate eggshells make precious pots for tiny plants, such as coleus seedlings or small succulents or colorful miniature African violets.
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Their flames looked orange and violet against the clear grey blue of the sky where already a few stars were twinkling.
The Railway Children
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Gruffydd’s sword glimmered violet in the dying light as he reached into his pouch for the last potion.
Arowin's Return
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Many other agents have been used to treat alopecia areata, including minoxidil, psoralen plus ultraviolet A, and anthralin (Anthra-Derm), but success rates vary.
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The dramatic false-color image also highlights the contributions of hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen, energized by intense ultraviolet radiation, to the nebular glow.
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Violet's face is crimsoned to its utmost capacity, and her eyes have that awful beseechingness that cuts him to the soul.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
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The remnant stellar core in the centre is now sending out a flood of ultraviolet light into the surrounding gas.
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Some other common indoor plants like African violet, jade plant and sansevieria are not poisonous but could cause stomach upset if swallowed.
Undefined
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La couleur est d'un rouge violet lie de vin, tirant sur celle de fleurs de pêche, lorsqu'elle est peu intense; on le trouve quelquefois en aiguilles divergentes, partant d'une centre commun, et formant de jolies rosettes à la surface de la gangue.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Resembling the regular lupin, the false lupin produces flowers much looser up the stem in a violet-blue.
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The gene has been found to make redheads more sensitive to ultraviolet light, which is why they burn more easily in the sun, and it predisposes them to skin cancer.
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One possible motive for this change would be that the Crosses are veiled in violet, while this part of the rite is done in red vestments.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms
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Ultra-violet rays and the free radicals age the skin more quickly reducing its elasticity and creating wrinkles.
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Violet-blue primroses and gardenias skirt a fountain in a smaller circular garden near the front door.
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Toshiba has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology.
November 2009 - Fareastgizmos.com
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The ultra-violet rays, and other high-velocity and invisible rays from the upper end of the spectrum, rip and tear through their tissues, just as the X-ray ripped and tore through the tissues of so many experimenters before they learned the danger.
Chapter 32
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Below the trailing sweeps, violets and daffodils and drifts of yellow, blue and white crocus came forth in Spring and later tulips, grape hyacinth and other like bulbs kept the willow company.
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Small, violet berries are produced in autumn and winter.
The Sun
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For one odd, hallucinatory moment she thought she saw herself and Violet Trent among them, faces blank under their smart little hats.
THE WHITE DOVE
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If a solution of 1,369 per cent, of caustic ammonia is added to this red fluid, and the tube is turned around to effect the necessary mixture, keeping its mouth closed with the thumb, after the addition of more or less of the ammonical fluid, it will change into violet.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
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Holes in the ozone layer, or a global breakdown of stratospheric ozone would lead to increasing doses of ultraviolet radiation at the Earth's surface.
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Spring-blooming wildflowers are the broad-leaved spiderwort, downy yellow violet, and hairy phlox.
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Bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet rays, and bats and porpoises can hear sounds two octaves beyond our range.
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ScentOfViolets, indeed, you did not imply that pharmaceutical companies are not behaving badly, as they clearly are (except for that whole creating-life-saving-drugs thing, which, admittedly, is a not insignificant part of their business).
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy
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The sky was a pale orange colour now, orange tinged with red and thin lines of violet accentuated by an even darker orange.
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The maximal deflexion and drive force of PLZT bimorph driver under ultraviolet illumination were attained from material dynamics analysis.
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The pope's mozzetta is red; that of the cardinals red, rose-coloured, or violet; all others are violet, unless the prelate belongs to a religious order, in which case the colour of the mozzetta and of the religious habit is the same.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Ultraviolet radiation penetrates the coating and carbonizes the oils in the wood, causing the wood to darken beneath the varnish.
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Broadband radiometers are common tools to measure UV-A, UV-B or the ultraviolet index.
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RESULTS By the ultraviolet spectrum and infrared spectrum, the artificial antigen was successfully synthesized and identified.
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They can't see red, but are attracted to some red flowers, such as bee balm, that reflect ultraviolet light.
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Most studies of UVA and violet-blue light responses have implicated carotenoids and flavins as molecular photoreceptors.
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Ultraviolet rays can burn the hair's cuticle, or outer layer, leaving it dry and brittle; they also can damage pigment and reduce hair's strength and elasticity.
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Then we have the "amethyst" sapphire, which varies from a red to a blue purple, being richer in colour than the ordinary amethyst, which is a form of violet-coloured quartz, but the corundum variety, which, like its companions, is called the "oriental" amethyst, is both rarer and more precious.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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Though attired in this barbarous guise, I did not, of course, dispense with my trousers, which, being black, contrasted somewhat oddly with my primrose-coloured ki ton, as they call the smock, and the dark violet clamis, or plaid.
In the Wrong Paradise
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The main cause is ultraviolet radiation from the sun or sunbeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, in our common dog-violet the perfect flowers rarely produce seed, while the rudimentary cleistogamic flowers do so in abundance.
Darwinism (1889)
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The collegians were clad in mantles of husi, which is a thin fabric like picote, [23] inclining toward violet, with insignia of red braid extending to the feet.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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I went upstairs on the roof and sat among the potted plants, among the violets and chrysanthemums and marigolds and daisies.
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She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.
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Good quality glass skins are toughened for impact resistance and treated to filter out ultra violet and infra red rays.
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Tanzanite One is the biggest miner of the blue-violet gemstone, which is found only in the east African nation of Tanzania.
Mineweb - Daily news headlines
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Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electrotherapeutic lamp units for ultraviolet and infrared radiation are classified here.
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In the rainbow, raindrops do the sifting systematically; each band is part of a progression through the visible spectrum, from red to violet.
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Maybe simply seeing Violet/Chloe in that sanitarium would be enough to tip Dante Baptiste into madness, especially after watching Heather Wallace die.
Etched in Bone
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Atop the neck's silver rings was a necklace of four orbs of different color: blue, red, green and violet.
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Baby artichokes en barigoule (braised in white wine and olive oil) came with perfectly soft-boiled halves of quails' eggs and effervescent-tasting violet heartsease flowers.
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The bouquet itself was a nosegay of violets with a pink rose in the center.
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Laminated glass was chosen for its long life and the protection it affords against ultraviolet rays.
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Sapphire releases violet cosmic rays, which are cooling and tranquilizing.
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In addition, and especially important to its effectiveness as a remedy for ulcers and running sores, it is a rich source of ergosterol, which is converted by the sun's ultraviolet rays into vitamin D.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.
CHAPTER VI
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Methods A model for resection of sciatic nerve was used. L4-6 spinal cord was taken, and sectioned (paraffin embectling) and stained in brilliant cresyl violet.
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He also studied the orientation of purines and pyrimidines in tobacco mosaic virus and in nucleic acids, by measuring the ultraviolet dichroism of oriented specimens, and he studied, with the visible-light polarizing microscope, the arrangement of virus particles in crystals of TMV and measured dry mass in cells with interference microscopes.
Maurice Wilkins - Biography
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Perhaps the worst treatment Graham had to endure was an experiment with ultra-violet rays, carried out at the local hospital.
