When it melts, tilt the pan so that the sides have a thin coating of melted butter (or do this with a pastry brush).

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"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.

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The polymers were covered with a thin aluminum coating, but once fed electricity, they began to glow so brightly that light shone through the metal.

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Marrying piezoelectrics with a thin film microchip coating, those scientists Down Under have for the first time identified just how much energy your pressure can generate.

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In the 1990s, they combined thin-film coating techniques with getter technology for the LHC and that paved the way for the solar panel applications we see today at the Geneva International Airport.

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Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.

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But Dr Bruel found that if a hydrogen-treated wafer is first fused to another wafer that has been given a glass coating, the force of the gas bubbles will instead cause a thin silicon film to peel off the one and on to the other.

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The cotton fibers are made conductive by coating the fibers, first with gold nanoparticles, and then with a thin layer of PEDOT.

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