That does not affect their electrical conductivity, but nanoscale particles like this are known to scatter and obstruct the passage of heat through imperfectly understood quantum-mechanical processes.
As is often the case with imperfectly analysed intuitions, their significance only became apparent after I had reached my own conclusions in my own way.
She set the lighted lamp in the passage, and again entered the parlor. Hepzibah's form, though its sable outline mingled with the dusk, was now less imperfectly visible.
200 years ago, in 1820, the global rate of absolute poverty -- which is defined, imperfectly, as living on less than one dollar and 90 cents a day -- was 84 percent.
' Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.
In the first case the two sexual elements which go to form the embryo are perfect; in the second case they are either not at all developed, or are imperfectly developed.
Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored.
Of course mothers can play this role too, to swing too far into judgement, and to be too harsh, to the degree that the father has his own pathologies, he's going to do that imperfectly.