Graveyards

C06-0109. When a corpse decomposes, much of the phosphoms in the body is converted to phosphine, PH3, a colorless gas with the odor of rotting fish. Phosphine is a highly reactive molecule that ignites spontaneously in air. Li the graveyard, phosphine that escapes from the ground ignites in air, giving small flashes of flame. These flashes are sometimes attributed to supernatural causes, such as a... 

Now, hold on to your hat. This secretary swore that from early in 1946 until May of 1947 — that was when he was finally extradited, remember — Ambros used his Ludwigshafen office as a graveyard for papers he would surely remember and a hiding place for stuff he might not remember. He used it for the other defendants, too. That French administrator s mouth dropped three inches when Alt s secretary told us that."... 

With a smile that was graveyard of yellow sincerity, Nigel pushed the dish back to me and said, I d get used to the grub, mate. It ain t so bad. Besides, this is the freshest it ll be on the voyage. ... 

In Passage 2, line 36, the narrator describes Nigel s smile as a graveyard of yellow sincerity. What figure of speech is the narrator employing ... 

Under the name of adtpocm, Fourcroy described a peculiar fatty substance found in a cemetery at Pans, and supposed to have been partly formed during decomposition. Ciievreul has shown that this matter is the original fat of the body, which has resisted putrefaction, and is partly in the state of fatty acid, and partly as ammonia soap, with traces of lime and magnesian soaps. This substance may often be found in tho neighborhood of graveyards. 

One area in which Cl methods appear to be thoroughly superior to perturbation theory is in the treatment of multireference problems problems with substantial nondynamical correlation effects. Even UHF-based single reference perturbation theory methods may not cope with some such situations, and multireference perturbation theory, despite many efforts over the years, still appears to be far from developing a general flexible approach that is competitive with MRCI. Transition-metal chemistry, in particular, is a graveyard for UHF-based MP methods. 

Sir Samuel F. Edwards (Cavendish Laboratory. University of Cambridge noted (1987). "Liquids are everywhere in our lives, in scientific studies and in our everyday existence. The study of their properties, in terms of the molecules of which they arc made, has been the graveyard or many theories put forward by physicists and chemises, Hie modern student of liquids places his laith in Hie computer, and simulates molecular motion with notable success, but this still leaves a void where simple equations should exist, as are available for gases and solids. There is a powerful reason for the failure ol analytical studies of liquids, i.e.. the difficulty experienced in rinding simple equations for simple liquids. We can explain the origin of the trouble and show lhai it docs not apply lo wlul at first might seem a much more Complex system, that of polymer liquids where, instead of molecules like HjO or C(,H(,. one has systems of molecules like H lCHi)iu no or H (CHC H(,i .ni i which behave like sticky jellies and yet have complex properties that can he predicted successfully. ... 

I introduced myself and explained that I had urgent business forCircospetto. We were ordered to wait. One man went into the guard room, two more came out to keep an eye on Bruno. A fourth was sent off to report to someone. Time passed. Graveyard cold seeped into my bones fog spitefully saturated all my clothes. I wished someone would offer me a seat, preferably close to a fire. 

The factory floor was deserted, a graveyard of assembly-line robots, so Trix struck out fearlessly for the far doorway. Behind her, construction teams worked to convert the rest of the complex into an operational way station, blissfully ignorant of her absence. 

Schubel, J.R., and Hirschberg, D.J. (1978) Estuarine graveyard and climatic change. In Estuarine Processes (Wiley, M., ed.), pp. 285-303, Academic Press, New York. 

When the Earth and Sun die, some of the elements in our buildings and bones are returned to the galactic graveyard to form new stars in a new cycle of... 

Aside from white dwarfs, there is another possible graveyard state for stars. Although it s rarer than a white dwarf, stars between 1.4 and about 5 solar masses can explode to create neutron stars when they die. Neutron stars have radii of only around 10 miles, yet they retain all of the mass of the star s core— at least 1.4 times the full mass of the Sun. A neutron star is formed when the core of a supernova collapses inward and becomes compressed together. Neutrons at the surface of the star decay into protons and electrons. Stars with masses greater than about 5 solar masses will become black holes 6... 

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