For the umpteenth time, I chickened.

“Does that mean we have to go out in those small boats?” he asked of Sherwood […] . “Nothing less! But buck up, old man, and don’t go batchy, as these whalers call it!”

The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.

Because the beam is transmitted through the film and reflected from the substrate, the measurement of the spectra of relatively thick films on metal substrates is usually known as transflection spectrometry.