Sound-deading

Therefore, when preparations are made to follow former materials, it is always necessary to examine the product in detail and to analyse all relevant aspects. To return to the sporting example—the new ball must mimic its predecessor and an important aspect of doing so is to generate the familiar sound if, when struck, the original ball rang bell-like or sounded dead , so also must the plastic one. With a view to achieving this, attention should be paid to ... 

Schallstarke, /. intensity of sound, schalltot, a. acoustically dead, nonresonant. Schallverstarkung, /. sound amplification, schsilweich, a. sound-absorbent. 

It sounds so dry, so puritanical. So dead. How can I bring them alive, yet have a clear scholarly conscience How can I make Elizabeth and Anthony breathe Did the stubble scratch her ankles after the Grafton harvest How did he live through the months as a prisoner of war in Calais When Edward seized the throne from Henry, what did they feel Their mother, Jacquetta, was Henry s aunt by marriage, Lancastrian to the core, Queen Margaret her great friend, both French noblewomen and new,... 

I doffed my bonnet. Then I stood up and watched him stride away with his habit swirling around his ankles, bare feet making no sound on the terrazzo. / cannot say. Fedele had not said that he did not know. It was an odds-on bet that he knew perfectly well but had been told under the seal of the confessional. I glanced around the hall and decided that now was definitely not the time to pry. Whatever the dead man s problem had been, if anyone knew it, it would keep. 

Silence. The dead man was starting to sound like a candidate for sainthood. 

This is not a novel idea. We have long employed perfumes to add richness to our lives. As Kipling once astutely remarked, smells are surer than sounds or sights to make the heart strings vibrate. We all accept that pleasant smells are attractive, but can we actually do more with smells Like influence human health or behavior with specific fragrances Believe It or not, researchers have done an impressive amount of work in this area, some of it whimsical, some deadly serious. 

Does biomass sound reminiscent of fossil fuels It should, because biomass is simply a fossil fuel without the fossil—dead plant material that has yet to turn into coal, petroleum, or natural gas. Just about anything you can do with fossil fuels, you can do with biomass, except, of course, deplete it and create as much pollution. 

Fig. 9.1. Diagram of dead sound test of grinding wheel to detect cracks.

Users experienced elevated body temperatures and perspiration even while sitting around. Simply stated, metabolic rates elevate 100-200% in only a few hours. Sounds great, but DNP can be deadly. Since increased energy is dissipated as body heat, too high of a dosage of DNP for to long of a period can actually COOK ORGANS . No joke, I mean medium well done. 

What are you worried about Maybe you are worried that you don t have enough time to prepare for the test. You are afraid you won t do well on the exam. This leads to anxiety about not getting into the right graduate program. Pretty soon, you are convinced your life is basically ruined, so why not just turn on the TV and resign yourself to a low-pay, dead-end job Sounds silly when you put it that way, doesn t it Fear has a way of escalating when you don t control it. 

Unpleasant jobs, Trix told herself, were best handled with a minimum of fuss. No more bullets bouncing around in here she felt safe enough to move. Squeezing herself between the front seats, she pushed tentatively at the driver. A second, firmer push had him lolling against the driver s door, his eyes staring as if in disbelief at her disrespect for the dead. Trix grimaced as she reached over him to hit the door release, and tried not to hear the sound as, with a final shove, she pitched the corpse on to the road. 

The brittle voice didn t even sound like her Papa. He sat far, far away in the corner of the carriage, staring fixedly at some point even further away. In the shock of Dusha leaving them, had he forgotten that Sasha -poor, wonderful Sasha - was dead Natasha knew only that her own world veered wildly from one heartbreaking loss to the other. 

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