anvil
铁砧,砧板,砧木,铁砧板
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Definitions
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- : a heavy iron block with a smooth face, frequently of steel, on which metals, usually heated until soft, are hammered into desired shapes.
- : anything having a similar form or use.
- : the fixed jaw in certain measuring instruments.
- : Also called anvil cloud, anvil top .Meteorology. incus.
- : a musical percussion instrument having steel bars that are struck with a wooden or metal beater.
- : Anatomy. incus.
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Add too much, and the sample will act too much like metallic hydrogen, metalizing only at pressures that will crack your diamond anvil.
Progress took off in the 2000s, when supercomputer simulations let theorists predict the properties of various hydrides, and the widespread use of compact diamond anvils let experimentalists squeeze the most promising candidates to test their mettle.
Earlier this year they predicted the conditions under which one metal that might have formed between the diamond anvils should superconduct, and they found different behavior.
INSIDER TIP: Anvil is not for the faint of wallet: fresh ingredients set imbibers back $8-$12 per cocktail.
Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us.
He seems relieved—like an anvil has been lifted from his shoulders—and so are we.
Where were you when the coalition hammer delivered Operation Noble Anvil?
If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head.
His tombstone in the churchyard consists of an anvil and hammer, wrought in stone.
We readily recognise the fact that when a hammer falls often on an anvil it heats itself and the metal on which it strikes.
The next moment Tom's hammer was making lively music upon his anvil, and Eddie was again on his way to school.