Track conditions deteriorated during the course of qualifying and the surface was breaking up at the newly resurfaced hairpin with officials forced to use brooms to clear the racing line of gritty debris.
Though that also makes it more flexible (and makes the ability to grind and polish the glass to create a light-capturing parabolic surface without actually breaking the thing all the more impressive), this flexibility can be exploited to keep the reflective surface in shape.
Despite their scarcity, they can easily be spied at these spots, breaking the surface in gentle arcs in pods of three or four.
Puffs of dust were evidence of the ball breaking the surface of the pitch as it landed - and batting last should be awkward.
For a while they sat, and Suchen remembered the splash of a fish breaking the surface of the water, and two egrets taking off with unhurried elegance, one after the other.
The team found that most of the methane is being dissolved into the seawater and did not detect evidence of the gas breaking the surface of the ocean and getting into the atmosphere.
The water was cold and clear, and all around us sunlight was breaking through the surface.
It will sprout and be ignored someday soon, breaking just above the surface while the people walk by obliviously.
The "detergent" action of soap comes from its ability to attach to oily, grimy surfaces, with the "water-hating" end breaking up molecules at that surface.
Sporting a brushed stainless steel surface, and with a record-breaking slim profile of only 8.9mm thickness, the HE720 demonstrates once again the company's consistently strong ability to combine top performance with style.
The researchers in this study examined the geometric structure and behaviour of one of the rotavirus's surface proteins, called VP4, which plays a key role in binding on to the surface of a target cell, and breaking through its membrane.
Handmade from the tough bark of the Tara Wing-Celtis or Blue Sandalwood tree and rice straw, Xuan paper is known for its strong, smooth surface, its ability to absorb water and moisten ink, and fold repeatedly without breaking.
He described mining hydrothermal vents as "more invasive" because it would involve breaking up the uppermost metre of the sea floor and piping the rock fragments to the surface.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
You may find out soon, as the Wall Street Journal has just posted a "breaking news" alert that it's heard Microsoft is developing a new lineup of Surface tablets (which it's confirmed before) including a 7-inch version, which it expects to take into mass production later this year.
ENGADGET: WSJ: Microsoft's next generation of Surface tablets includes a 7-inch version
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