Amorphous

Amorphous clays Amorphous clays are young, and commonly found in volcanic ash.

Amorphous form (a-BN) The amorphous form of boron nitride (a-BN) is non-crystalline, lacking any long-distance regularity in the arrangement of its atoms.

Melting of amorphous solids (glasses) Glasses are amorphous solids which are usually fabricated when the molten material cools very rapidly to below its glass transition temperature, without sufficient time for a regular crystal lattice to form.

Subsequently Deville obtained crystalline silicon by heating the chloride or fluoride of silicon with sodium metal, isolating the amorphous silicon, then melting the amorphous form with salt and heating the mixture until most of the salt evaporated.

And for someone so parsimonious as to be offensive, he needed funds and a certain gregariousness to concretise and amplify his amorphous message.

Love shares the journey that took her from her Catholic upbringing in Connecticut to becoming a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and from amorphous political views to being firmly grounded in conservative principles.

Melt down every celebration chain, ring, and trophy and sell off the amorphous blob of precious metals and gemstones to keep those margins up.

A drop of blood from Lena floats into the amorphous chasm under the lighthouse, and, like cancer, rapidly mutates and multiplies until her mirror version is formed.

And so it makes the whole process feel a little more amorphous to me.

Left: This scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) image of a tantalum (Ta) film surface shows an amorphous oxide above the regularly arrayed atoms of crystalline Ta metal.

Redistribution is an amorphous term. Conventionally, one form of redistribution is by creating hospitals, schools, roads, irrigation facilities, etc. which benefits people.

The other guys are all part of this amorphous establishment.

You play as an amorphous blob – hardly the most aspirational cipher – but what you lack in, say, limbs, you make up for in pluck and inventiveness.

At Wits University, where he studied towards an LLB, he was on “the amorphous left” on the Students’ Representative Council but belonged to no political party; he described himself as “an undisciplined fellow”.

Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc., a materials technology and manufacturing company, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells products and parts from bulk amorphous alloys to customers in various industries.

My bandmates and I — fall 2019’s particular variation of amorphous indie rock collective The Shifties — dug in. Over a series of sweaty, crowded but unimpeachably sincere subcultural gathering we made our case.

Settlements became per se illegal under amorphous notions of international law that no one could seriously reconcile with San Remo or the League of Nations mandate.

The same folks who publicly flirted with impeachment justifications like “quid pro quo” and bribery before settling on amorphous “abuse of power” and nonsensical “obstruction of Congress” charges have now glommed on to the GAO’s finding with alacrity.

What the Umahis have been talking about since then is community policing that is amorphous and untenable.

Yet it is so broad and amorphous it is meaningless to say you are for or against it.