These unique properties may be particularly valuable in tailoring the way light interacts with matter.
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Down at these near-atomic sizes, materials exhibit unique properties that dramatically alter their physical, chemical or biological behaviour.
Bitcoins have some unique properties that no other financial instrument has.
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Madame Curie pioneered the concept of radiation through her work with radium, and brought it to the awareness of the scientific community, vividly describing its unique properties.
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Their demo only tugged at the particle level -- sorry, no spaceships just yet -- but it exhibited unique properties that could be useful here on Earth.
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But rare earth elements were not known to exist until a couple of hundred years ago, and only in more recent history have their unique properties been put to significant use.
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Other patents deal with the isolation of enzymes important for industrial processes, the isolation of cellular compounds that guarantee unique properties (such as resistance to extreme pressure and salinity) and the discovery of mechanisms ensuring resistance to extreme temperatures and toxicity, these extreme properties being of interest for both biomedical and industrial applications.
Each community has unique emergent properties, which are hard for other networks to emulate.
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Omar's project was to evaluate the unique lifelike properties of bodies embalmed using the Thiel method.
The engine would use at least 25% less fuel and, he claims, its emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide would be cut by three-quarters because of its unique ignition properties.
Appraisers say unique and luxurious properties can be extremely difficult to value accurately.
The unique partnership that is acquiring the properties is about as emblematic of today's property hierarchy as can be.
Over the years, nearly one thousand unique, and often threatened, heritage properties have been identified.
On Wednesday, comScore released its ranking of the top Web properties: Google, which attracted 141 million unique visitors, took the top billing as the most-trafficked Web site for the first time.
Collectively, this viewership eclipsed 12 million unique viewers in November, placing TwitchTV in the upper echelons of online gaming properties worldwide.
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The properties posing the most promise among safe-haven investors: highly unique, irreplaceable structures (whether due to construction costs or building regulations) on coveted swaths of land in desirable internationally recognized locales like New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
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