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Film

1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. (Pope)

2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. (Shak)

Origin: as. Film skin, fr. Fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. Filmene skin. See fell skin.

to cover with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. (Shak)


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Rate of organic matter decay, please help!

you can always speed it up with little heat. Why don't you try it once without the film and then you will know exactly how it behaves. Art, huh?

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by JackBean
Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:34 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rate of organic matter decay, please help!
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Rate of organic matter decay, please help!

... to start shooting a time-lapse music video in which the subjects are a pigs head, mostly soft fruits and flowers. I'm shooting on expensive 35mm film, over a 6-8 week period (1800 individual frames), so I really can't afford to shoot any unnecessary shots (ie where not much change occurs since ...

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by Mullac
Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:06 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rate of organic matter decay, please help!
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[NEUROSCIENCE]-USING X-RAYS TO IMAGE THE BRAIN?

... relative inability of electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays, to pass through a particular material. ------------ - using X-ray sensitive film to make 2D img's of shadows formed by these tissues in body - suitable for skull's bones, but doesn't work for brain ¬- brain has multifarious ...

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by AbducensNucleus
Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:26 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: [NEUROSCIENCE]-USING X-RAYS TO IMAGE THE BRAIN?
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I'm writing a fictional short story. I have some questions.

... how would they come back to life? This is actually quite well theorised topic, you could find tons of materials online. There was even documentary film and miniseries called Life After People. I didn't have time to watch it all yet but from what I saw, it seemed interesting. The truth is that 200 ...

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by JackBean
Fri May 25, 2012 6:42 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I'm writing a fictional short story. I have some questions.
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Re: Video of Euglena asexually splitting.

... just moves off unconcerned at the end while the 'mother' doesn't seem to realize that seperation has taken place and keeps contracting. Lovely film.

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by animartco
Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:13 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Video of Euglena asexually splitting.
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