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Deep maroon leaf of the smoke tree (Cotinus) which shows strong anthocyanin absorption as well as the chlorophyll signatures.
Used for moisture absorption.
Really like how this one turned out. Best viewed on black background (press L).
He used to tell me that if I read the newspaper every day and voted for the right man, not the party, I would be doing my duty as an American citizen. He spent 45 years working for the railroad, as a Conductor on a passenger train. It almost broke his heart when the passenger trains were allowed to stop running and the government came up with the brilliant failure that is called Amtrak. I think he could get a glimpse of America's future when he passed away in 1984, but if he had lasted until today, he would have been one very pissed off man of 105 years of age...
This is with the SA200 transmission grating in the converging beam at f10 (C9.25). Next is to try same with Celestron reducer on the scope (so f6.3) to reduce star size and improve resolution.
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He was only an elderly gentleman, hitching a ride on the misty wet highway. I asked him where he was heading and he said he had no real destination in mind.
He then said "That is beautiful music you're playing. Who is it?". I told him it was Various Artists - Pick n Mix Volume 2 from a great netlabel called Faturenet Recordings.
His eyes lit up with excitement. He said "My name is George Ripley, and I am the greatest travelling salesman who's ever lived! There is nothing I can't sell!".
I noticed that he had a small briefcase on his lap and said "So what do you sell these days? Insurance? Pensions? Broadband? I'm just curious".
He laughed and replied "Oh dear no, my young friend! You see... I sell people their SOULS!".
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Day 2: A room of Rothko paintings at the Tate Modern. Bankside, London, UK. [20060216]
Mark Rothko saw these paintings as objects of contemplation, demanding the viewer's complete absorption. They were originally commissoined for a restaurant, but Rothko soon realised that their brooding character required a very different environment.
In the late 1950s, Rothko was commissioned to paint a series of murals for the fashionable Four Seasons restaurant, in the Seagram Building on Park Avenue, New York. He set to work, having constructed a scaffold in his studio to match the exact dimensions of the restaurant. However, the murals were darker in mood than his previous work. The bright and intense colours of his earlier paintings shifted to maroon, dark red and black.
Roth was influenced by Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, with its blind windows and deliberately oppressive atmosphere. Rothko commented that Michelangelo 'achieved just the kind of feeling I'm after - he makes the viewers feel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up, so that all they can do is butt their heads forever against the wall.'
Recognising that the wordly setting of a restaurant would not be the ideal location for such a work, Rothko withdrew from the commission. He finally presented the series to the Tate Gallery, expressing his deep affection for England and for British artists, especially JMW Turner. All nine paintings are included in this display. Perceived, as the artist intended, in reduced light and in a compact space, the subtlety of the layered surfaces slowly emerges ,revealing their solemn and meditative character.
Wetlands are biodiversity rich sensitive ecosystems that harbor hundreds of plants, insects, birds and other animals uniquely adapted to their wetland mode of life.They are crucial to maintain the regional water balance through ground water recharge and absorption of flood waters and also serve as the rice bowl of developing countries. Nevertheless, wetlands play immense role in the socio-economic and livelihood aspects of local communities living around the wetland. In India, rural communities depend wetland for livelihood through farming, mat making etc; for food through fishing and hunting; for roof thatching by collection of reeds and palm leaf ; for firewood; for fodder etc. However, these wetlands are now under a threat of conversion for big industrial and real estate projects, change in lifestyle of local community, over extraction of resources by increased population, pollution,waste dumping, eutrophication and pesticide farming. There are three important wetlands in the Puducherry region namely Oussudu, Bahour and Kaliveli that provide important resources for local communities and also are a home to tens of thousands of migratory birds that visit the Puducherry region in winter. These wetlands have been acknowledged as Important Bird Areas(IBAs) by IBCN, since many of these birds are represented in more than 1% of their global population.
The recent threat on wetlands of Puducherry is more due to the change in life style of local community living around these wetlands. The younger generation is not much dependent on wetland resources, The younger and modern generation has lost the compassion and bonding to the wetland which their forefathers maintained through sustainable livelihood practices. This has resulted in a change in attitude and perception of the community towards unsustainable farming and resource extraction, game hunting, intensive fishing and reclamation, ultimately resulting in shrinking of wetland area and loss of biodiversity at an alarming pace. Local community is leaving the traditional farming practices for more fertilizer and pesticide based farming; fish stock is depleted using invasive Gill nets. Since Puducherry is fast developing region with rapidly growing commercial tourism and industrial establishments, these wetlands are under the threat of reclamation for resort construction and other commercial establishments. Poaching for a sport as well as open selling of birds including the threatened species is common. School drop-out are noticed to get attracted to such practices to make easy money as well as hunting for a sport with peers. With time, they may grow into expert hunters who will depend on poaching as the main source of income for the family. There are many wetland awareness programs organized by Forest Department as well as NGOs targeting school kids and educated community through workshops. School drop-outs are often not specially targeted by any of such programs and often not brought under the ambit of such programs. This gap needs to be addressed for local conservation efforts to be fully effective. We have chosen birds as the umbrella species whose conservation will in turn protect the lake and biodiversity as a whole. Birds are attractive and beautiful; ,which may easily get compassion from drop-out kids if guided appropriately. With proper efforts, the poachers can be turned to protectors and expert tour guides to facilitate ecotourism.
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A second test film with my Zorki 1 type D (year 1955), Lyon, France, January 16, 2023, after the range-finder adjustment and the receipt of small accessories as a metal push-on shade hood and FOCA filters A36 made in France in the 50's.
The Zorki was loaded with a 36-exposure Svema Foto 400 exposed for 400 ISO. Svema Foto 400 is a superpanchromatic film sensitized in the red to 780 nm and coated on a very thin clear PET base. The anti-halation is provided by water-soluble black and blue pigments coated on the back and similar to one used for Rollei Retro 400S (Agfa Aviphot 400).
For this film the Industar-22 lens was equipped with a 36mm push-on "1A" (likely the so-called "Skylight") filter and unknown brand (not FOCA) and a generic metal cylindric shade hood.
Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The possible slight absorption of the 1A filter was not corrected.
Montée Bonafous, January 16, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+25, 20°C for 10min30, with the same developing time as the Rollei Retro 400S film.
The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
During the photo session, after several views, the film cartridge did not rotate freely retaining the film too much. Before I found that I could help the film to exit from the cartridge by counter rotating the rewind button, some views were overlapped significantly and a bit off-centered, fortunately without film damage.
All views of the film are presented (with resizing for overlapped ones) in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
Contrary to the previous Svema Foto 400 films where quality problems were noticed, no polluted zone were detected here. This film was attached to the spool by a paper sticker and not the adhesive tape of the other Svema (Astrum) film that a suspected possibly to damage the emulsion by releasing some chemicals.
About the camera and the lens:
This camera is a practically mint sample of Zorki 1 arrived to me in Lyon, France, January 10, 2023.
The camera looked exiting from the KMZ factory in USSR almost 70 years later spent in a time capsule ... with almost no traces of use. According to a custom receipt of July 28, 1955, signed in Vienna, Austria, the camera body and lens are the original matched ones. As for the original FED, FED-Zorki and Zorki's ("ФЭД", "ФЭД-Зоркий", „Зоркий“), the Zorki 1 was a straight legal copy of the Oskar Barnack Leica II after the cancelation of German camera patents following the end of WWII.
This Zorki 1 is a type D model PM1115 (year 1955 according sovietcams.com/index7584.html). Type D Zorki's were produced from 1953 to 1955 in about 250.000 units with serial numbers ranging from #470.000 to (in 1955) #55 45.000. The original lens of this Zorki units is an collapsible lens Industar-22 1:3.5 f=5cm.
In the rear pocket of the ever-ready leather bag was deposited the custom receipt and a film label of Agfa negative-color CN17 likely from the 60's.
Millets are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions.
The most widely grown millet is pearl millet, which is an important crop in India and parts of Africa. Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are also important crop species. In the developed world, millets are less important. For example, in the United States, only proso millet is significant, and it is mostly grown for bird seed.
While millets are indigenous to many parts of the world, it is believed that they had an evolutionary origin in tropical western Africa, as that is where the greatest number of both wild and cultivated forms exist. Millets have been important food staples in human history, particularly in Asia and Africa. They have been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10,000 years.
DESCRIPTION
Consumption of the minor millets has been practiced since the beginning of the ancient civilizations of the world. Generally, the millets are small-grained, annual, warm-weather cereals belonging to grass family. They are highly tolerant to extreme weather conditions such as drought and are nutritious compared to the major cereals such as rice and wheat. They contain low phytic acid and are rich in dietary fiber, iron, calcium, and B vitamins. Moreover, these millets release sugar slowly in the blood and also diminish the glucose absorption. These properties of the minor millets made the present consumers attracted to the consumption of millet.
MILLET VARIETIES
MAJOR MILLETS (the most widely cultivated species)
Eragrostideae tribe:
- Eleusine coracana: finger millet (also known as ragi, nachani,mandua or Kezhvaragu in India), fourth-most cultivated millet
Paniceae tribe:
- Panicum miliaceum: proso millet (syn. : common millet, broom corn millet, hog millet or white millet, "chena" or Chin' in Hindi, "Pani-varagu" in Tamil, "Baragu" in Kannada), third-most cultivated millet
- Pennisetum glaucum: pearl millet (also known as Sajjalu in Andhra Pradesh, Sajje in Kannada and kambu as referred by other South Indian states and bajra in Hindi), the most cultivated millet
- Setaria italica: foxtail millet, the second-most cultivated millet (also known as korralu in Andhra Pradesh and thinai in Tamil Nadu and kang or rala in Maharashtra, kakum in Hindi)
Andropogoneae tribe : Sorghum is also counted as major millets and known as jonna in Andhra Pradesh, Jolla' in Kannada, cholam in Tamil Nadu and Jowar in Hindi
MINOR MILLETS
Andropogoneae tribe:
- Coix spp.: Job's tears
Eragrostideae tribe :
- Eragrostis tef: teff
Paniceae tribe :
- Digitaria spp.: white fonio, black fonio, raishan, Polish millet
- Echinochloa spp.: Japanese barnyard millet, Indian barnyard millet (syn.: sawa millet) (also known as kodisama in Andhra Pradesh and kuthirai vaali in Tamil Nadu and bhagar or varai in Maharashtra), burgu millet
- Panicum sumatrense : little millet (also known as samalu in Telugu and samai in Tamil Nadu)
- Paspalum scrobiculatum: kodo millet (also known as varigalu in Andhra Pradesh and varagu in Tamil Nadu)
- Urochloa spp. (also known as Brachiaria): browntop millet, Guinea millet
HISTORY
Foxtail Millet is known to have been the first domesticated millet. Chinese legends attribute the domestication of millet to Shennong, the legendary Emperor of China. Similarly, millets have been mentioned in some of the oldest extant Yajurveda texts, identifying foxtail millet (priyangava), Barnyard millet (aanava) and black finger millet (shyaamaka), indicating that millet consumption was very common, pre-dating to 4500 BC, during the Indian Bronze Age. Specialized archaeologists called palaeoethnobotanists, relying on data such as the relative abundance of charred grains found in archaeological sites, hypothesize that the cultivation of millets was of greater prevalence in prehistory than rice, especially in northern China and Korea. Millets also formed important parts of the prehistoric diet in Indian, Chinese Neolithic and Korean Mumun societies. Broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet were important crops beginning in the Early Neolithic of China. For example, some of the earliest evidence of millet cultivation in China was found at Cishan (north). Cishan dates for common millet husk phytoliths and biomolecular components have been identified around 8300–6700 BC in storage pits along with remains of pit-houses, pottery, and stone tools related to millet cultivation. Evidence at Cishan for foxtail millet dates back to around 6500 BC. A 4,000-year-old well-preserved bowl containing well-preserved noodles made from foxtail millet and broomcorn millet was found at the Lajia archaeological site in China.
Palaeoethnobotanists have found evidence of the cultivation of millet in the Korean Peninsula dating to the Middle Jeulmun pottery period (around 3500–2000 BC). Millet continued to be an important element in the intensive, multicropping agriculture of the Mumun pottery period (about 1500–300 BC) in Korea. Millets and their wild ancestors, such as barnyard grass and panic grass, were also cultivated in Japan during the Jōmon period some time after 4000 BC.
Millet made its way from China to the Black Sea region of Europe by 5000 BC. The cultivation of common millet as the earliest dry crop in East Asia has been attributed to its resistance to drought, and this has been suggested to have aided its spread.
Pearl Millet was domesticated in the Sahel region of West Africa, where its wild ancestors are found. Evidence for the cultivation of Pearl Millet in Mali dates back to 2500 BC, and Pearl Millet is found in South Asia by 2300 BC
Finger Millet is originally native to the highlands of East Africa, and was domesticated before the third millennium BC. It's cultivation had spread to South India by 1800 BC.
Research on millets is carried out by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Telangana, India, and by the USDA-ARS at Tifton, Georgia, United States.
PRODUCTION
Pearl millet is one of the two major crops in the semiarid, impoverished, less fertile agriculture regions of Africa and southeast Asia. Millets are not only adapted to poor, droughty, and infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops. This has, in part, made millet production popular, particularly in countries surrounding the Sahara Desert in western Africa.
Millets, however, do respond to high fertility and moisture. On a per hectare basis, millet grain produced per hectare can be two to four times higher with use of irrigation and soil supplements. Improved breeds of millet improve their disease resistance and can significantly enhance farm yield productivity. There has been cooperation between poor countries to improve millet yields. For example, 'Okashana 1', a variety developed in India from a natural-growing millet variety in Burkina Faso, doubled yields. This breed was selected for trials in Zimbabwe. From there it was taken to Namibia, where it was released in 1990 and enthusiastically adopted by farmers. Okashana 1 became the most popular variety in Namibia, the only non-Sahelian country where pearl millet – locally known as mahangu – is the dominant food staple for consumers. 'Okashana 1' was then introduced to Chad. The breed has significantly enhanced yields in Mauritania and Benin.
India is the world's largest producer of millet. In the 1970s, all of the millet crops harvested in India were used as a food staple. By the 2000s, the annual millet production had increased in India, yet per capita consumption of millet had dropped by between 50% to 75% in different regions of the country. As of 2005, most millet produced in India is being used for alternative applications such as livestock fodder and alcohol production. Indian organizations are discussing ways to increase millet use as food to encourage more production; however, they have found that some consumers now prefer the taste of other grains.
In 2010, the average yield of millet crops worldwide was 0.83 tonnes per hectare. The most productive millet farms in the world were in France, with a nationwide average yield of 3.3 tonnes per hectare in 2010.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Millets are traditionally important grains used in brewing millet beer in some cultures, for instance by the Tao people of Orchid Island and in Taiwan. Various peoples in East Africa brew a drink from millet or sorghum known as ajono, a traditional brew of the Teso. The fermented millet is prepared in a large pot with hot water and people share the drink by sipping it through long straws.
Millet is also the base ingredient for the distilled liquor rakshi in Nepal and the indigenous alcoholic drink of the Sherpa, Tamang, Rai and Limbu people, tongba, in eastern Nepal. In Balkan countries, especially Romania and Bulgaria, millet is used to prepare the fermented drink boza.
AS A FOOD SOURCE
Millets are major food sources in arid and semiarid regions of the world, and feature in the traditional cuisine of many others. In western India, sorghum (called jowar, jola, jonnalu, jwaarie, or jondhahlaa in Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi and Marathi languages, respectively; mutthaari, kora, or pangapullu in Malayalam; or cholam in Tamil) has been commonly used with millet flour (called jowari in western India) for hundreds of years to make the local staple, hand-rolled (that is, made without a rolling pin) flat bread (rotla in Gujarati, bhakri in Marathi, or roti in other languages). Another cereal grain popularly used in rural areas and by poor people to consume as a staple in the form of roti. Other millets such as ragi (finger millet) in Karnataka, naachanie in Maharashtra, or kezhvaragu in Tamil, "ragulu" in Telugu, with the popular ragi rottiand Ragi mudde is a popular meal in Karnataka. Ragi, as it is popularly known, is dark in color like rye, but rougher in texture.
Millet porridge is a traditional food in Russian, German, and Chinese сuisines. In Russia, it is eaten sweet (with milk and sugar added at the end of the cooking process) or savoury with meat or vegetable stews. In China, it is eaten without milk or sugar, frequently with beans, sweet potato, and/or various types of squash. In Germany, it is also eaten sweet, boiled in water with apples added during the boiling process and honey added during the cooling process.
Per capita consumption of millets as food varies in different parts of the world with consumption being the highest in Western Africa. In the Sahel region, millet is estimated to account for about 35 percent of total cereal food consumption in Burkina Faso, Chad and the Gambia. In Mali and Senegal, millets constitute roughly 40 percent of total cereal food consumption per capita, while in Niger and arid Namibia it is over 65 percent (see mahangu). Other countries in Africa where millets are a significant food source include Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda. Millet is also an important food item for the population living in the drier parts of many other countries, especially in eastern and central Africa, and in the northern coastal countries of western Africa. In developing countries outside Africa, millet has local significance as a food in parts of some countries, such as China, India, Burma and North Korea.
The use of millets as food fell between the 1970s and the 2000s, both in urban and rural areas, as developing countries such as India have experienced rapid economic growth and witnessed a significant increase in per capita consumption of other cereals.
People affected by gluten-related disorders, such as coeliac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity and wheat allergy sufferers, who need a gluten-free diet, can replace gluten-containing cereals in their diets with millet.
It is a common ingredient in seeded bread.
Millets are also used as bird and animal feed.
GRAZING MILLET
In addition to being used for seed, millet is also used as a grazing forage crop. Instead of letting the plant reach maturity it can be grazed by stock and is commonly used for sheep and cattle.
Millet is a C4 plant which means it has good water efficiency and utilizes high temperature and is therefore a summer crop. A C4 plant uses a different enzyme in photosynthesis from C3 plants and this is why it improves water efficiency.
In southern Australia millet is used as a summer quality pasture, utilizing warm temperatures and summer storms. Millet is frost sensitive and is sown after the frost period, once soil temperature has stabilised at 14 °C or more. It is sown at a shallow depth.
Millet grows rapidly and can be grazed 5–7 weeks after sowing, when it is 20–30 cm high. The highest feed value is from the young green leaf and shoots. The plant can quickly come to head, so it must be managed accordingly because as the plant matures the value and palatability of feed reduces.
The Japanese millets (Echinochloa esculenta) are considered the best for grazing and in particular Shirohie, a new variety of Japanese millet, is the best suited variety for grazing. This is due to a number of factors: it gives better regrowth and is later to mature compared to other Japanese millets; it is cheap – cost of seed is $2–$3 per kg and sowing rates are around 10 kg per hectare for dryland production; it is quick to establish; it can be grazed early; and it is suitable for both sheep and cattle.
Compared to forage sorghum, which is grown as an alternative grazing forage, animals gain weight faster on millet and it has better hay or silage potential, although it produces less dry matter. Lambs do better on millet compared to sorghum. Millet does not contain prussic acid which can be in sorghum. Prussic acid poisons animals by inhibiting oxygen utilisation by the cells and is transported in the blood around the body — ultimately the animal will die from asphyxia. There is no need for additional feed supplements such as sulphur or salt blocks with millet.
The rapid growth of millet as a grazing crop allows flexibility in its use. Farmers can wait until sufficient late spring / summer moisture is present and then make use of it. It is ideally suited to irrigation where livestock finishing is required.
NUTRITION
In a 100 gram serving, raw millet provides 378 calories and is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of protein, dietary fiber, several B vitamins and numerous dietary minerals, especially manganese at 76% DV (USDA nutrient table). Raw millet is 73% carbohydrates, 4% fat and 11% protein (table).
Millet contains no gluten, so is not suitable for raising bread.
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More spectroscopy. This is Vega. The distinct black vertical lines to the left of the colour spectrum indicate hydrogen. When you compare this to the gam cas spectrum in the previous image you can see distinct differences.
Sonata Aurio Class A acoustic absorbers installed to the ceiling within St Mary's Centre in Aberdeenshire
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Sonata Aurio panels installed within offices to reduce reverberation and improve speech intelligibility during conference calls. Some panels were printed with high resolution images supplied by the customer
Sound Reduction Systems Ltd used Sonata Aurio panels within the offices at Norwich Council to reduce noise and reverberation during use.
Sonata Vario Class A acoustic absorption panels wrapped in Trilogy fabric and printed with customer-supplied images.
Sonata Vario and Memo acoustic panels used to reduce noise and reverberation at New Barns Primary School
Acoustic Fields product test facility in Tucson, Arizona. Our top of the line QDA series diffusor / low frequency absorbers are shown between the speakers. Our PFP-1 panels cover the ceiling and our ACDA series of low frequency absorbers line both side walls. The face of each ACDA unit has our proprietary foam to deal with side wall reflections. Above the QDA series on the front wall are our ACDA -5 units shown horizontally and our MDW series shown horizontally.
-Absorption- This name was given thinking of black! Black is the absence of color as well as the combination of all! It can be mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated; it has this special quality of being simultaneously negative and positive! A color of mourning and at the same time of rebellion! That is how it came!
This nuno-felted scarf consists of a polyester fabric, commonly Trevira, in black colour and extra-fine Australian merino wool in a punch of colours; yellow, orange, red, turquoise, black! The black polyester fabric is used as a basis for the scarf and the wool is applied on the top in order to create the patterning. It is created with the wet felting technique. The distinction between this nuno-felted scarf and a simple felted item is that it contains also a different material except from wool, i.e. polyester fabric. The scarf measures approximately 95 cm (37.4 in) length and 95 cm (37.4 in) width.
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Sonata Vario Class A acoustic absorbers installed within the hall at Flanshaw Junior Primary and Infant School in Wakefield
"The deeper aim of the early seer musicians was to blend the singer with the cosmic song which can be heard through the awakening of man’s inner experience. Indian music is a subjective, spiritual, and individualistic art, aiming not at symphonic brilliance but at personal harmony with the oversoul. Musical gatherings are an effective form of yoga or spiritual discipline, necessitating deep concentration, intense absorption in the seed thought and sound.”
For those of you who don't know what it is:
This are acoustic absorption panels for the walls in music studios.
Sonata Aurio panels installed within offices to reduce reverberation and improve speech intelligibility during conference calls. Some panels were printed with high resolution images supplied by the customer
Vibrational spectroscopy is an analytical technique that provides information about molecular structure, chemical bonding, and intermolecular interactions. Infrared absorption and Raman spectroscopies are well-known examples of this widely used form of spectroscopy. VISION uses neutrons rather than photons as a probe of molecular vibrations. This approach has several advantages over optical spectroscopy, including high sensitivity to hydrogen, absence of selection rules, ease of computation of the vibrational spectrum, isotopic sensitivity, no energy deposition in sample, and high neutron penetrability through bulky sample environment.
Applications
VISION can be used for leading-edge studies in disciplines such as nanotechnology, catalysis, chemistry, biochemistry, geochemistry, and condensed/soft-matter science. Contemporary popular themes comprise hydrogen storage, hydrogen bonding, molecules adsorbed on surfaces and porous materials, thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials, hydrous minerals, metal-organic frameworks, drugs and pharmaceuticals, polymers, proteins, catalysis, and batteries.
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Image credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL
Name: Will Harris
Category: Natural
Title: A Glacial Figure
Physics Explanation: This image was taken on top of a glacier looking into the pure blue water typical of glacial water. The reflection is specular (mirror-like) and is created due to light rays traveling from the person (angle of incidence) and striking the plane of the water only to bounce back (reflected ray) at a similar angle into the camera lens. The reflection is not crisp due to vibration in the water and also because of the fact that some of the light rays pass through the water and refract (bend) and are not reflected back to the camera.