The defending champion is expected to defeat his challenger.

The significant Q-spoiling observed is in part due to the refractive loss in the contact area between the QW sample and the sphere since the QW sample has an index of refraction greater than that of the fused silica microsphere and is also in part due to the scattering loss occurring in the contact area.

You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.

Immersion in water would be apt to wash the nitre out of the pulverine ; but this result would be prevented if the match or priming mixture were liquefied or brought to the pasty consistence , not with water , but spirit varnish.