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The flush of a tea shoot is defined as the apical bud and two new leaves below it (Pig. 2). This is the ideal target for harvesting fresh tea of optimum quahty. Commonly, three or even four leaves are plucked in an attempt to increase crop yield. 

Eyebrow pencils are used to outline the brow, especially after plucking of undesirable fibers. They are commonly prepared by stick mol ding. Eyebrow pencils are generally harder than eyeliner pencils. Like other pencils, the extmded mass is normally encased in wood. Some eyebrow pencils may be quite soft, approaching the texture of hpsticks. 

String instruments all work on the same basic principle. A thin string, of gut or metal, is stretched tightly between two rigid supports. If the string is plucked, or hit, or bowed, it will go into sideways vibrations of precisely defined frequency which can... 

E. Pluck, Pure Appi Chem. 60, 432-6 (1988) G. J. Leigh (ed.). Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry lUPAC Recommendaiions 1990, Blackwell, Oxford, 1990, 289 pp. The Red Book ,... 

The flowers suooeed each oilier on the tree oontinuoiisly, so that it is possihlc, so lo speak, to pluck them all the year round. But it is during the winter season that they are parliculiirlv pleniilul, ihal is from Nov-ember to March m the tropical countries of Die Bouihem hemisphere. 

Abperleffekt, m. water-repellent effect, abpflucken, v.t. pick, pluck, gather, abplatten, v.t. flatten. — abgeplattet. p.a. flattened, oblate. 

Runzellack, m. wrinkle varnish, wrinkle finish. Rupertsmetall, n. Prince Rupert s metal, rupfen, v.t. pluck, pick, pull. 

Poultry is immersed in hot water just after slaughter, in order to loosen the feathers for the plucking process. The carcases are then eviscerated and chilled as soon as possible by cold air blast or using iced water in the form of a bath or spray. 

Saffron is the tiny stigma at the center of the crocus flower, Crocus sativus. Because each stigma is plucked from the flower by hand, saffron is one of the most expensive spices in use today. 

It has been found from MD simulations that friction of SAMs on diamond decreases with the increasing chain length of hydrocarbon molecules, but it remains relatively constant when the number of carbon atoms in the molecule chain exceeds a certain threshold [44], which confirmed the experimental observations. In simulations of sliding friction of L-B films, Glosli and McClelland [45] identified two different mechanisms of energy dissipation, namely, the viscous mechanism, similar to that in viscous liquid under shear, and the plucking mechanism related to the system instability that transfers the mechanical energy into heat, similar to that proposed in the Tomlinson model (see Chapter 9). On the basis of a series work of simulations performed in the similar... 

Figure 20 provides important information on the activities of individual molecules, considering the fact that the performance of tail groups is a manifestation of molecule motion. The periodic jumps observed in Fig. 20(a) indicate that the alkane chains are plucked by the opposite mono-layer at the moment of slip. Looking at Fig. 20(b), however, it is difficult to tell whether or not the plucking mechanism also involves in an incommensurate sliding. 

Gieger C, Deneke H, Pluck J. The future of text mining in genome-based clinical research. Biosilico 2003 1 97-102. 

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