Resin, in the most specific meaning of the term, is a hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees.

You don't know what that small opaque bottle contains.

Examples of resin acids are abietic acid (sylvic acid), C20H30O2, plicatic acid contained in cedar, and pimaric acid, C20H30O2, a constituent of galipot resin.

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So, I went down to my shop, and I molded it and I cast it in resin, because in the resin, then, I could absolutely get the glass smooth finished.

This thing was made of resin and it was too light.

He also creates phantasmagoric sculptures made of bones from cast resin.

An opaque substance transmits no light, and therefore reflects, scatters, or absorbs all of it.

Other varieties A minor variety of wheat beer is represented by Berliner Weisse (Berlin White), which is low in alcohol (2.5 to 3 ABV) and quite tart.

Much of the most highly prized amber is transparent, in contrast to the very common cloudy amber and opaque amber.

China is sufficiently opaque that it is hard to know from the outside which interpretation is correct.

Someone is re engineering dinosaurs by extracting their DNA from prehistoric amber.

The white copal, a hard, milky, sticky substance, is a more expensive version of the same resin.

Pigment The color of oil paint derives from small particles of colored pigments mixed with the carrier.

It was made out of resin, which wasn't a common material for movie props about the time the movie was made.

Condoms may also be made from other synthetic materials, such as AT 10 resin, and most recently polyisoprene.

Everything is done to make the lines of responsibility, the identity of the owners and real decision makers as impenetrable as possible.

Pine trees grow in the area, and the city was once a center of resin processing and trade.

Finally some suggest that the name is the anagram of sirena (siren) a siren was the symbol of the village and the town of Resina until 1969.

The atmosphere is quite dusty, containing particulates about 1.5 µm in diameter which give the Martian sky a tawny color when seen from the surface.

Brown was studying orchids under microscope when he observed an opaque area, which he called the areola or nucleus, in the cells of the flower's outer layer.

Alpha shows the distribution of opacity levels. If the layer is completely opaque or completely transparent, the histogram will consist of a single bar on the left or right edge.

One of the opportunities I had was one person was working on a really interesting micromagnetic resonance imaging machine with the NIH.

The composition of Greek fire remains a matter of speculation and debate, with proposals including combinations of pine resin, naphtha, quicklime, calcium phosphide, sulfur, or niter.

As a drug it usually comes in the form of dried flower buds (marijuana), resin (hashish), or various extracts collectively known as hashish oil.

It is improbable, however, that the production of amber was limited to a single species and indeed a large number of conifers belonging to different genera are represented in the amber flora.

Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales.

And what it entails is the use of resin, of this very thick resin with a veneer of the same kind of wood that's used throughout the hall, in a kind of seamless continuity that wraps the hall in light, like a belt of light rather than separating, like a proscenium would separate the audience from performers, it connects audience with players.

Pulque can be served natural or with added flavors (strawberry and pineapple are some that have a higher demand) it has a dense body, perhaps even a milky consistency and is normally opaque.

Acumen came in with the patient capital, and we also helped to identify the entrepreneur that we would all partner with here in Africa, and Exxon provided the initial resin.

At this moment, however brief, America s soft power defeated by a knockout that of China, which less than one day later solemnly and in the most opaque manner opened the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Of course, first you have breakfast, and then you fill the shell full of Bondo and paint it and nail it up, and you have an architectural button in just a fraction of the time.

... And as they had the appearance of men, they were men they talked, conversed, saw and heard, walked, grasped things they were good and handsome men, and their figure was the figure of a man.

The lunar soil, although it poses a problem for any moving parts of telescopes, can be mixed with carbon nanotubes and epoxies in the construction of mirrors up to 50 meters in diameter.

Figures released by NECA include a 12 inch (30 cm) action figure which speaks phrases from the film, a 12 inch resin statue and a seven inch (17 cm) figure.

The pillar that originally supported the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was transferred into the Saunière museum in 1993 because of erosion and decay and was replaced by a resin replica.

In 1988, the United States Society of Plastics Industry (SPI) developed a coding system in which each kind of resin is labeled with a number, 1 7, to facilitate sorting.

There's a thing that happens when you mold and cast things, which is that every time you throw it into silicone and cast it in resin, you lose a little bit of volume, you lose a little bit of size.

Then, he took the scans of the best organs and made the meat of course, this is done with a Japanese resins food maker, but you know, in the future it could be made better which reproduces the best MRI scan of the best cow he could find.

I found other reference. Avi Ara Chekmayan, a New Jersey editor, actually found this resin Maltese Falcon at a flea market in 1991, although it took him five years to authenticate this bird to the auctioneers' specifications, because there was a lot of controversy about it.

Thorgerson had noted that Roxy Music's Country Life was sold in an opaque green cellophane sleeve censoring the cover image and he copied the idea, concealing the artwork for Wish You Were Here in a dark coloured shrink wrap (making the album art absent ).

The concept behind Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar suggested the use of a handshake (an often empty gesture), and George Hardie designed a sticker containing the album's logo of two mechanical hands engaged in a handshake, to be placed on the opaque sleeve (the mechanical handshake logo would also appear on the labels of the vinyl album this time in a black and blue background).

The English took her after a fierce day long battle near Flores Island in which many Portuguese sailors were killed Among these riches were chests filled with jewels and pearls, gold and silver coins, ambergris, rolls of the highest quality cloth, fine tapestries, 425 tons of pepper, 45 tons of cloves, 35 tons of cinnamon, 3 tons of mace and 3 of nutmeg, 2.5 tons of benjamin (a highly aromatic balsamic resin used for perfumes and medicines), 25 tons of cochineal and 15 tons of ebony.