Coatings

created one specific theme—to take you through the technique of gilding and the material of gilt bronze. Gilding or Ormolu is a “decorative technique for applying fine gold leaf or powder to a solid surface such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold.” In this case, the exhibition will revolve around gilt bronze Asian artwork. Let us take a tour through multiple pieces and learn about the gilding technique, and how the material has held up since the artwork has been made.…

Stone Descriptions: Marble Marble is a metamorphosized sedimentary rock. Due to different crystallizations and impurities present over the millennia, marble comes in an infinite variety of color. For this reason, and given its preciousness, marble is generally used in construction for interior and exterior purposes. For similar reasons, we generally see this material in the form of slabs, and not as a structural building material. Marble is a relatively porous stone. This makes it easily…

already is. Huckleberry Finn has tremendously impacted American literature with the powerful story it has to tell. Taking away this tiny part of the story can alter the general meaning of the story. It’s kind of like trying to change history by sugar coating the event with what you want to happen. Keeping the N-word in Huck Finn would keep the originality inside the book. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be banned because it can change the meaning of the book, deprive children’s…

also varied according to their rank. They were also armed with original weapons. They warriors were initially brightly colored with pigments of blue, black, brown, green, red, white, pink, and lilac. Since their production and discovery, the color coating has faded or chipped off, and the weapons have been looted. The warriors were found in four pits 23 feet deep, to the east of his burial ground, to protect the emperor from his conquest states to the east. Pit one contains most of the army,…

Mummification is the process in which a dead body is preserved. This was a practice commonly used by the Egyptians in order to reunite with their bodies in the afterlife. It was done by separating the organs and containing it in different vases, and then coating the dead corpse with a substance to preserve it. And, finally wrapping it in white cloth and burying it in a tomb in a pyramid. This was believed to essential part of the Egyptian culture, for everyday citizens slaved in process of…

interviewer for the hunger games and always looks too perfect. An example of the worlds obsession with appearance is “They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner” (124). Ceaser reflects this exactly; “Same face under a coating of pure white makeup. Same hairstyle that he dyes a different colour for each hunger games” (124). The characters from the novel that live in the Capitol all have an obsession with appearance and will be looked down upon if they don’t look…

I literally couldn’t believe it! I just felt numb! As if being told my one parent has cancer isn’t devastating enough, we later found out my father had stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. I truly wanted to believe this was all a bad dream. That I was going to wake up eventually and my daddy was going to be O.K. Though, this wasn’t a dream and this was really happening! Now, after doing plenty of research and seeing plenty of stories based on Pancreatic Cancer. I knew enough to know, it was terminal…

mailman Paul." I noticed Paul limp the first time we met, but it wasn’t until a chilly and rainy afternoon, I learned what happened. That afternoon had exceptionally bad weather. The rain came down like sheets and smeared the window panes with a thick coating of water. Then a completely soaked Paul showed up on the porch with a well-protected package. His wet clothes clung to his body like glue, and for the first time I saw Paul’s left leg was missing starting from mid-thigh all the way down. In…

The optimized PF0 encapsulated hybrid NCs formulation was achieved by a two-step process (Fig 1) using nanoprecipitation and subsequently coating with chitosan. In Step-I, the nanoprecipitation technique was used to prepare PF0 loaded BSA NCs (PF0-ANC). In this nanoprecipitation technique, acetone was used as a desolvent [40]. Varying concentrations of PF0 solutions (125µM - 375µM) and BSA solution (156.25µM – 468.75µM) (Table 1) were mixed in a glass vial. The PF0 BSA solution was then added…

(Kadolph 240). President Washington and Adams pushed the growth of hemp in almost all of the thirteen colonies. For over a century, hemp was heavily demanded in the naval industry; this rot-proof material supplied the navy with durable ropes and coating for long journeys across the Atlantic. However, the early 20th century brought a significant damage to the hemp industry when the United States proposed The Marijuana Tax Act in 1937 where any possession of marijuana was declared to be illegal,…