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The hourglass-shaped bipolar nebula in the new Gemini image is a stellar nursery made up of glowing gas, plasma, and light-scattering dust.
Gemini's New Filters Reveal the Beauty of Star Birth | Universe Today 2010
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The hourglass-shaped bipolar nebula in the new Gemini image is a stellar nursery made up of glowing gas, plasma, and light-scattering dust.
Gemini's New Filters Reveal the Beauty of Star Birth | Universe Today 2010
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As it usually was out here, given the massive amounts of light-scattering ash and dust still orbiting the stratosphere after the Great Stellar Shitfight.
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The blue haze which hangs over the mountains is partly due to the light-scattering volatile oils of the eucalyptus trees.
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Mathematical models and computer algorithms process the light-scattering data from the laser probes, and use the scattering characteristics to determine each apple's firmness, sugar content and acidity.
The Apple of an Electronic Eye Abby Christopher 2005
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Pale Translucence Most of the muscle in most raw fish is white or off-white and delicately translucent compared to raw beef or pork, whose cells are surrounded by more light-scattering connective tissue and fat cells.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Amylose starch molecules trap aroma molecules the aroma molecules in turn make the starch molecules more likely to bond to each other into light-scattering, milky aggregates.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The translucence of fish muscle is turned into opacity by cooking treatments that cause the muscle proteins to unfold and bond to each other into large, light-scattering masses.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Amylose starch molecules trap aroma molecules the aroma molecules in turn make the starch molecules more likely to bond to each other into light-scattering, milky aggregates.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The translucence of fish muscle is turned into opacity by cooking treatments that cause the muscle proteins to unfold and bond to each other into large, light-scattering masses.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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