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The Atopodentatus was remarkably well adapted to the ocean depths, with a series of needle shaped teeth.

Sea ice begins as tiny, needle-shaped crystals, about a tenth of an inch long, known as frazil.

The geologists identified plough marks etched onto the seafloor by the underwater keels of huge icebergs, and majestic 24-mile-long (40 km) needle-shaped ridges in the Barents Sea.

"When we precipitate aragonite in the lab, just in a bucket of seawater, it forms this very characteristic pattern with very long, needle-shaped crystals," said Nicola Allison, a lecturer in earth sciences at the University of St. Andrews, who did not participate in the research.

Mounted nearly 15 degrees from vertical on a launch rail that resembled an industrial-grade erector set, the rocket looked like the kind of thing you might have doodled during an especially tedious junior-high earth science class—a slender fuselage bracketed by a needle-shaped nose and four fins at the base.

The specific epithet, , is derived from Latin and means "needle-shaped".

Hakea constablei is a compact rounded shrub to small tree growing to high. The needle-shaped bright green pointed leaves are long and wide. New growth is hairy, branches are arching hanging loosely and despite the pointed leaves not particularly prickly. The bright green leaves are needle-shaped and about long.

Leionema rotundifolium, is a dense shrub with needle-shaped stems and pale lemon to white terminal flowers. It is found in New South Wales and Queensland.

Hakea nodosa, commonly known as yellow hakea, is a shrub that is endemic to Australia. It usually has golden yellow flowers in profusion and needle-shaped leaves.

The dry fruit are one-seeded, smooth, compressed needle- shaped, long and with fine longitudinal lines. The seed is dispersed at maturity. Flowers from July to January.

Lemanskiite normally forms with a habit of very large nodules up to five centimeters long; it can also form with veins of quartz. Lemanskiite has two different types of occurrences, needle-shaped and rosette-shaped aggregates. The needle-shaped aggregates are very thin plate-like individual crystals with a length of 0.8mm and have a thickness of 10 μm. The rosette- shaped aggregates are thin, lamellar, subparallel intergrowths with very thin individual domains.

P seduogout crystals are: P ositive birefringent P olygon shaped Gout therefore is the negative needle shaped crystals. Also, gout classically strikes the great Toe, and its hallmark is Tophi.

Average annual growth is . The dorsal leaves are gray in the spring. Leaflets are thin, papery, or herbaceous, long, narrow, oblong, oval or needle-shaped. Their margins are coarsely toothed.

The dry one seeded fruit are needle shaped long and densely matted with short hairs. Flowers between July and February in the species' native range and intermittently during other months.

In present carbonate platforms, automicrite is composed by aragonite needle-shaped crystals which have dimension of 1- 5 μm. Instead, in old limestones micrite is composed by μm-size calcite crystals.

Rhadinothamnus rudis is a small shrub with needle-shaped, angular branchlets and single white flowers at the end of branches. This species and the three subspecies are endemic to Western Australia.

Hakea invaginata is a shrub in the family Proteacea and is endemic to Western Australia. It has purplish-pink flowers, smooth needle-shaped leaves and the branchlets are thickly covered in hairs.

Eutrichiurides species were very similar in form and build to modern snake mackerels, in that they were long and slender, blade- shaped fishes with elongated jaws possessing fangs and needle-shaped teeth.

In 1679, van Leeuwenhoek used a microscopes to assess tophaceous material and found that gouty tophi consist of aggregates of needle-shaped crystals, and not globules of chalk as was previously believed.

Hakea verrucosa is a shrub species in the family Proteaceae that is endemic to south-west Western Australia. It has large white, deep pink or red pendulous flowers with stiff needle-shaped leaves.

Rhadinothamnus euphemiae, is a slender, small, upright shrub with needle- shaped branchlets thickly covered with silvery scales and tubular greenish- purple tubular flowers throughout the year. It is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia.

Hakea kippistiana is a shrub in the family Proteacea and endemic to Western Australia. It is a dense prickly shrub with sharp needle-shaped leaves with fragrant white, cream or pink flowers from November to February.

It is in the shape of a cupola. It has eight arched openings, each fitted with a bell. The dome is needle-shaped and has a triple-bar Orthodox cross. The cupola is circumscribed by a balustrade.

Despite its frequent occurrence, there has been some confusion about the identification of this taxon.Lange- Bertalot, H. & S. Ulrich (2014). Contributions to the taxonomy of needle- shaped Fragilaria and Ulnaria species. Lauterbornia 78: 1-73, 30 pl.

Hakea eyreana, commonly known as straggly corkbark, is a tree in the family Proteacea and is endemic to arid parts of inland Australia. It has needle- shaped leaves, greenish-yellow flowers and oblong to egg-shaped fruit.

Hakea rugosa, commonly known as wrinkled hakea or dwarf hakea, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Australia. It has sharp needle-shaped leaves and white or cream fragrant flowers in profusion from August to October.

Hakea drupacea is an upright rounded shrub growing to tall. Smaller branches are hairy. The smooth needle-shaped leaves grow alternately, are long and wide ending in a sharp point. The leaf may divide into 2-8 segments.

Melaleuca glaberrima is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with needle shaped, but not sharp leaves and profuse pink or mauve flowers.

It thrives with plenty of light and a high concentration of carbon dioxide.Roe, Colin D. (1967), A Manual of Aquarium Plants, Shirley Aquatics, SolihullAquascaping World Plantpedia, Eleocharis acicularis The specific epithet, , is derived from Latin and means "needle-shaped".

Needle-shaped tips allow the tip to enter a small hole or slot. Accessory sets of tips are sold separately and inexpensively, so that even indicators that have no set of tips may be augmented with a new set.

The leaves are divided into many needlelike lobes. The inflorescence is a head of flowers lined with leaflike bracts with needle-shaped lobes, and often with a coat of dense hairs. The flowers are white to blue and tubular in shape.

Persoonia acicularis was first formally described in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his book Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Augustus Frederick Oldfield near the Murchison River. The specific epithet, , is derived from Latin and means "needle-shaped".

Hakea ochroptera is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a shrub with long, needle-shaped leaves and an abundance of cream-white flowers in spring.

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The head, thorax, abdomen and legs are covered with long silky brown and grey hairs. The forewings are triangular, with a grey ground colour and without bands. The scales are needle shaped with a toothed edge.

Hakea gilbertii is a shrub in the family Proteacea and is endemic to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is an upright, prickly shrub with greyish needle-shaped leaves and clusters of fragrant flowers from late winter to spring.

252 The plant is actually inedible when raw because of needle-shaped raphides (calcium oxalate crystals) in the plant cells.Jeong Mi Moon, et al. 'Toxicities of raw Alocasia odora', Human & Experimental Toxicology. Abstract In Japan, there are several cases of food poisoning by accidental consumption.

Hakea lehmanniana, commonly known as the blue hakea, is a shrub in the family Proteacea. It has needle-shaped prickly leaves and blue flowers during winter months. It is endemic to an area in the southern Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.

Giffard steam water injector (B-needle valve). A needle valve. A needle valve is a type of valve with a small port and a threaded, needle-shaped plunger. It allows precise regulation of flow, although it is generally only capable of relatively low flow rates.

The mantle margin is simple and contains a rudimentary siphonal fold. The radula is wide and more or less bent at the end. The radular teeth are elongate and hook shaped or needle shaped, with many teeth in a series. The species is hermaphroditic.

Sometimes sparsely smooth without hairs. The leaves are more or less needle-shaped, long and in diameter. The leaves grow alternately and have 5 longitudinal veins along their length. Three dimensional rough textured seed capsules are approximately long and wide, ending in a short prominent beak.

The plant body is a gametophyte. It consists of a main axis (differentiated into nodes and internodes), dimorphic branches (long branch of unlimited growth and short branches of limited growth), rhizoids (multicellular with oblique septa) and stipulodes (needle shaped structures at the base of secondary laterals).

Once planted the germination time is approximately 6 months. The species is a favourite of birds due to the dense clusters of flowers and pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves which can be a shelter against predators. It is also resistant to wildlife browsing due to its unpalatability.

Hakea nodosa is an erect, sprawling shrub usually growing to tall and a similar width. The branchlets quickly form ribbing or slowly becoming smooth. The leaves are usually needle-shaped, sometimes flattened, flexible, long and wide. The leaves are occasionally grooved below and smooth ending in a point long.

Those closely involved in the campaign were awarded the "Order of the Bifurcated Needle". This, a personal initiative by Donald Henderson, was a lapel badge, designed and made by his daughter, formed from the needle shaped to form an "O". This represented "Target Zero", the objective of the campaign.

Melaleuca filifolia, commonly called wiry honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a woody, twiggy shrub with needle-shaped leaves, greenish flower buds, pink "pom-pom" flower heads and spherical clusters of fruits.

The flower bracts are arranged in 3 rows, bell-shaped, smooth, pale, sticky, often purplish and broader at the apex and about long. The flower centre is yellow, blooms appear from July to September. The smooth, dry one-seeded needle-shaped fruit are about long with fine longitudinal lines.

Archaeological evidence of eye surgery in the Roman era also exists. Galen of Pergamon (ca. 2nd century CE), a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher, performed an operation similar to modern cataract surgery. Using a needle- shaped instrument, Galen attempted to remove the cataract-affected lens of the eye.

While the leaves of P. quinquefolia do not produce urushiol, the sap within the leaves and stem contains raphides (needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate) which can puncture the skin causing irritation and blisters in sensitive people. . The leaves sometimes turn a decorative bright red in the fall.

Radial and central spines are variable in number from 4 to 21. They are thin, needle-shaped, golden-yellow to brown, in length. The blooming area is usually covered by snow-white wool. The funnel-shaped flowers are green or lemon- yellow and reach a size of about 1.5 cm.

Hakea decurrens is a semi-prostrate to erect scrambling bush or small tree tall. Smaller branches have short densely matted silky hairs, occasionally some quickly becoming smooth. Leaves are needle-shaped, widely spreading horizontally are long and wide. The smooth leaves are grooved on the underside ending with a sharp point long.

The needle-shaped leaves are either single or forked, and measure from long, wide and may be upright or drooping. The inflorescence consists of 15 to 200 individual small yellow, white or green flowers. Flowering occurs mostly from April to September. The rachis is usually long, thickly covered with short, soft, silky hairs.

Beaufortia burbidgeae, commonly known as column beaufortia, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with crowded, needle-shaped leaves and mostly red, or red and green flowers on the ends of the branches from spring to early summer.

Philotheca ericifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a much-branched shrub with glandular- warty branchlets, needle-shaped leaves and white to pink flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to six on the ends of the branchlets.

The fruit of C. mitis is saturated with raphides, sharp, needle- shaped crystals of calcium oxalate. The raphides are strong irritants that cause damage and subsequent itching upon contact with skin, and if ingested, the mouth. This is a result of the physical structure of the raphides, and not any chemical reaction.

Hakea circumulata is a non lignotuberous compact or low open shrub typically growing to a height of . Smaller branches are densely covered with short, soft, flattened rusty coloured hairs. The rigid needle-shaped leaves are long and wide. The leaves grow upright, slightly tapering with a very sharp point at the apex.

Hakea megadenia is an upright bushy spreading shrub or small tree high. The branchlets are covered densely in flattened hairs. The dull green leaves are needle-shaped or flattened long and wide ending in a sharp point. The inflorescence on female plants has 1-8 flowers and the male 3-14 flowers.

Technologists stated that for such compactness and purity, it will take millions and millions of strokes. It has greater purity than the iron standard forged in space, which was brought from the United States to compare it to the needle. In 2005, another needle-shaped object was discovered, also dated to the 14th century BC.

Petrophile pulchella grows as a shrub, which can reach high in sheltered locations and around in exposed heathland. The fine divided leaves average in length and are needle-shaped but soft rather than sharp-tipped. The new growth is glabrous (smooth). The cream-yellow inflorescences are roughly egg-shaped and appear in spring and summer.

The pedicels are long, slight to densely covered with long white hairs. The smooth perianth is long and the pistil long. The needle-shaped leaves are grooved on the undersurface and up to long and wide and ending in a sharp point long. The leaves are moderately covered with flattened silky hairs, quickly becoming smooth.

The seaweed has a pale to dark-green thallus that typically grows to outward to around . It has feather-like fronds that arise from a common stolon. Each of the fronds is upright and branched. The oppositely arranged branchlets are cylindrical to needle-shaped with upcurved tips with a blunt point at the end.

Seamanite is a transparent, yellow to pink mineral that occurs as needle- shaped crystals. Seamanite is a brittle mineral with a mohs hardness of 4. It is found in the crevices of fractured siliceous rock. The type occurrence was found in association with small crystals of calcite, thin coatings of manganese oxide, and fibrous sussexite.

The leaves are glabrous, coloured deep green, soft and needle-shaped. These needles all curve upwards, and are about 18–30 mm long, and 1.0–1.5 mm wide. It blooms in midwinter to early summer, primarily from July to October, but more broadly from June to November. The plant is monoecious with both sexes in each flower.

Stay cables are in a single plane. Cables connect in the center of the top deck of the box girder. The towers are reminiscent of an ancient Chinese weaving shuttle and can also be described as needle shaped. The deck passes through the tower at its widest part, what might be considered the eye of the needle.

Hakea rugosa is a wide spreading shrub high with stiff, straight needle-shaped leaves long and wide. The new growth leaves and branches are covered in flattened, short, silky hairs. The inflorescence consists of densely clustered cream or white flowers in profusion in the leaf axils. The pedicel is long and covered with flattened silky hairs.

Hakea cycloptera is a straggly bush or shrub tall. Smaller branches and young leaves are white and smooth. Needle-shaped leaves are covered with soft silky hairs or are smooth, usually long and wide ending in a sharp point long. The inflorescence consists of 1-14 white or pale pink flowers and appear in axillary racemes.

The grey- green leaves are small (3-5mm), velvety, needle-shaped and often appear in sets of five. The spines at the branch-nodes usually appear in sets of three - a longer central spine (max.30mm) and two lateral spines. The tiny, white, strongly scented flowers are sessile (without stalks), and they appear from autumn to spring.

Philotheca pinoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, erect undershrub with needle-shaped, glandular-warty leaves and pale pink or red flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to three in the axil of leaves at the end of branchlets.

Most leaves divide from a needle-shaped leaf stem long into segments long and wide. The inflorescence is on a stem long and consists of 65-120 cream, greenish-yellow or bright yellow flowers each on a stalk long. The stems are covered in white or dark brown hairs, rarely smooth. The hairy perianth is long.

Hakea polyanthema is a dense multi-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of with hairy branchlets. The new leaves and branchlets are covered with rusty coloured flattened, short, silky hairs. The smooth, needle-shaped leaves are arranged alternately, long and wide. The leaves may be either curving or straight and end in a sharp upright point.

Calcium citrate is sparingly soluble in water. Needle-shaped crystals of tricalcium dicitrate tetrahydrate [Ca3(C6H5O7)2(H2O)2]·2H2O were obtained by hydrothermal synthesis. The crystal structure comprises a three- dimensional network in which eightfold coordinated Ca2+ cations are linked by citrate anions and hydrogen bonds between two non-coordinating crystal water molecules and two coordinating water molecules.

Hakea oldfieldii is an open, straggling shrub with upright branches and growing to a height of . The smooth, needle-shaped leaves are more or less long and wide and grow alternately. The rigid dark green leaves may be curving or straight and end in a sharp point. The branchlets are smooth and covered with a bluish green powdery film.

Depot Peak () is a solitary nunatak, with a single needle-shaped peak, lying about 37 nautical miles (70 km) north of the Stinear Nunataks in Mac. Robertson Land. It was discovered by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions party led by R.G. Dovers during a southern journey in December 1954, and so named because a depot was established in the vicinity.

Many of his procedures and techniques would not be used again for centuries, such as the procedures he performed on brains and eyes. To correct cataracts in patients, Galen performed an operation similar to a modern one. Using a needle-shaped instrument, Galen attempted to remove the cataract-affected lens of the eye. His surgical experiments included ligating the arteries of living animals.

The species was first described by the botanist Robert Brown in 1810 as part of the work Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van- Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis. There are many synonyms including; Scirpus acicularis, Fimbristylis australica, Isolepis cochleata, Abildgaardia brevifolia, Iriha acicularia, Fimbristylis setacea and Iria acicularia. The specific epithet, , is derived from Latin and means "needle- shaped".

Both are a much favored seasonal vegetable. The plant, including the spadix, contains needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate known as raphides that are believed to be a defense mechanism against plant predatorsArnott, H.J., M.A, Webb (2000). Twinned Raphides of Calcium Oxalate in Grape (Vitis): Implications for Crystal Stability and Function. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161(1):133–142.

Of those foraminifera with calcareous tests, several different structures of calcite crystals are found.SEM photomicrograph of Patellina sp., showing cleavage of monocrystalline testPorcelaneous walls are found in the Miliolida. These consist of high- magnesium calcite organized with an ordered outer and inner calcite lining (the "extrados" and "intrados", respectively) and randomly oriented needle- shaped calcite crystals forming a thick center layer (the "porcelain").

Raphides in Epipremnum Devil's ivy (600x magnification) Raphides (pronounced răfədēz, singular raphide (rāfĭd) or raphis) are needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate monohydrate (prismatic monoclinic crystals) or calcium carbonate as aragonite (dipyramidal orthorhombic crystals), found in more than 200 families of plants. Both ends are needle-like, but raphides tend to be blunt at one end and sharp at the other.

Hakea platysperma is a single stemmed, spreading shrub to tall and a similar width. The branchlets and young leaves are covered with rusty coloured, flattened, smooth hairs. The thick, rigid leaves are needle-shaped, long, wide, yellowish at the base and ending with a sharp point long. Sweetly scented creamy reddish to yellow flowers appear in profusion in axillary racemes.

Hakea obliqua is an erect, dense shrub typically growing to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets and new growth are rusty coloured. The leaves are needle-shaped, rigid, thick and long, wide ending in a sharp, erect point. The inflorescence consist of 2-8 white-cream-yellow flowers sometimes with a greenish tinge on a stem long.

Vila Clotilde is a village in Caué District on São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. Its population is 53 (2012 census).2012 detailed census São Tomé e Príncipe, Instituto Nacional de Estatística Vila Clotilde lies 6.5 km west of São João dos Angolares. 3 km to its west is Pico Cão Grande, an iconic needle- shaped volcanic plug.

Hakea ochroptera is a tall shrub or tree to high with descending branches and does not form a lignotuber. Young stems, leaves and pedicels are hairy and rusty coloured. The leaves are needle-shaped, long and about wide ending with a point long. Creamy-white flowers appear in umbels of up to six flowers in the leaf axils from September to October.

Dru Rock is a rocky island long between Retour Island and Claquebue Island in the Curzon Islands. It was charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them "Rocher des Drus" in memory of the scaling of the needle- shaped peaks of Chamonix, France, "dru" being a French word for strong. The island is home to many craggy rock faces, which make climbing difficult.

Hakea cygna is an upright non-lignotuberous shrub growing to high. The smaller branches are densely covered in flattened silky hairs at flowering time. The leaves are variable, they may be flat and thick, narrowly egg-shaped widest in the middle, more or less needle-shaped or triangular in cross-section. Leaves are smooth long and wide with prominent veins on the leaf margin.

The plant has 1-6 thin central spines, needle shaped, yellowish red, 8 to 25 millimeters long. The 60-80 radial spines are long and twisted, about 15 mm long. The bell-shaped flowers are purple, more or less bright, up to 4 inches long and can reach 7 inches in diameter. The fruits are almost spherical, bright red or yellowish white, about 8 mm in length.

Eremophila hamulata is an erect, woody shrub growing to about tall and wide. The leaves are arranged alternately, scattered along the branches, more or less needle-shaped, long and about wide with a hooked end. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a stalk long which is hairy near its base. There are five overlapping lance-shaped, sticky green sepals long and wide.

The size can be 2 to 6 centimetres long and 0.7 to 2.5 centimetres in width, and the shape can be shape of an egg. The bottom of its leave is wedge-shaped or heart-shaped, while the top of it is short and needle-shaped. The edge of its leave is zigzagged. And every side of it is covered by little white hairs.

Hakea commutata is a lignotuberous straggly or dense rigid shrub with a rounded habit growing to high. Needle-shaped leaves are long and wide ending in a point long. Leaves are bluish-green with a whitish powdery covering, smooth or sparsely covered in coarse rough hairs and small protuberances. The inflorescence have 8-12 flowers either in leaf axils or at the end of branches.

Hakea purpurea is a dense, upright, slightly spreading shrub high and wide. The branchlets are either smooth or with flattened, silky hairs. The leaves are needle-shaped and divide toward the apex into 2-7 segments that are long and wide and end in a sharp point long. The leaves are thickly covered in short, matted, white or rusty coloured hairs quickly becoming smooth.

Hakea varia is an erect or spreading shrub typically growing to a height of and wide and forms a lignotuber.The branchlets and young leaves have flattened, densely matted silky hairs, quickly becoming smooth. The stiff leaves may be variable on the one plant, needle-shaped, simple, more or less elliptic, egg-shaped, toothed, long and wide. All variations of leaves always end in a sharp point long.

Hakea leucoptera subsp. sericipes is a small tree with an open canopy up to high, or may be a denser, multi-stemmed shrub high. It usually has straight, stiff branches and grey bark. The well spaced, long, needle- shaped leaves are a silver-grey, long, in diameter ending in a sharp point long covered in short, white silky hairs at first, but later becoming hairless.

Leaves are alternate, flat and linear, sometimes needle-shaped ending in a hard blunt point. Length may be variable from long and wide more or less the same length the entire leaf. Young leaves covered in soft matted hairs becoming smooth with age. Large "S" shaped fruit are smooth long and wide aging to rough and pitted on the surface ending with an incurving beak.

Microscopic analysis of synovial fluid is performed to evaluate for cell count and crystals. Crystals include monosodium urate, calcium pyrophosphate, hydroxyapatite and corticosteroid crystals. Monosodium urate crystals are seen in gout or gouty arthritis and appear as needle-shaped negatively birefringent crystals varying in length from 2 to 20 μm. With negative birefringence, the crystals appear yellow in parallel light and blue with perpendicular light.

Seamanite, named for discoverer Arthur E. Seaman, is a rare manganese boron phosphate mineral with formula Mn3[B(OH)4](PO4)(OH)2. The yellow to pink mineral occurs as small, needle-shaped crystals. It was first discovered in 1917 from a mine in Iron County, Michigan, United States and identified in 1930. , seamanite is known from four sites in Michigan and South Australia.

The other toy was named The Hypo-Squirt, a hypodermic needle-shaped water gun tagged by the press as a "junior junkie" kit. Both were recalled. Romper Room and its toy line had continued success, although Action for Children's Television citizens group considered the program to be an advertising channel for toys. Merrill Hassenfeld took over as CEO in 1974, and his son Stephen D. Hassenfeld became president.

The southern end of the protected area has subsequently been changed into the Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, covering . The northern end of the protected area remains as a strict nature reserve (Réserve Naturelle Intégrale) covering . It is characterised by needle-shaped limestone formations, above cliffs over the Manambolo River. The incredibly sharp limestone formations can cut through equipment and flesh easily, which makes traversing them extremely difficult.

It replaced the needle-shaped head which tended to shred the tape. Friedrich Matthias of IG Farben/BASF developed the recording tape, including the oxide, the binder, and the backing material. Walter Weber, working for at the RRG, discovered the AC biasing technique, which radically improved sound quality. During World War II, the Allies noticed that certain German officials were making radio broadcasts from multiple time zones almost simultaneously.

Philotheca wonganensis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of with corky branchlets. The leaves are thin, scattered, needle- shaped, , sometimes glandular-warty, and channelled on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a thin, club-shaped pedicel about long. There are five broadly egg-shaped sepals about long and five white, oblong to elliptical petals about long with a pink central stripe.

Thelocactus setispinus is globe-shaped to short cylindrical cactus about to wide and up to tall. The 12 to 15 radial spines are needle- shaped, bright, brown or white and up to long. The 1 to 3 central spines are longer and stronger, straight and curved like a hook at the tip. The flowers are orange, dark yellow, magenta, or violet Retrieved December 14th 2013 with a red center, about long.

Bossiaea decumbens is a prostrate shrub growing to about high, occasionally forming a mat-like appearance. The stems are needle-shaped with scant, flattened or spreading hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, elliptic to egg-shaped or broad, long, wide, sometimes heart-shaped at base, upper and lower leaf surface a different shade of green. The leaf lower surface is smooth with mostly obvious venation and the edges curved, on a short petiole.

Another example of morphological convergence is the predominance of small-leaved species in alpine vegetation. Small needle-shaped leaves with a relatively large surface-area to volume ratio are efficient in rapid energy transfer and heat dispersion while retaining structural strength. Scleromorphy is a common feature amongst alpine species and has provided an evolutionary advantage as Australia's recent climate has become more arid. Typically, most of Tasmania's alpine plants are evergreen perennials.

Leionema ambiens is a small shrub to high with smooth, mostly needle-shaped stems. The flat leaves may be elliptic, egg-shaped or a wide oblong, long and wide, apex either pointed or rounded, stem-clasping, obvious midrib and margins slightly toothed. The inflorescence is a terminal cluster of 20-200 white flowers, petals about long on an angled pedicel. The seed pod is more or less upright, about long with a small beak.

Philotheca pinoides is an erect undershrub that grows to a height of with glandular-warty branchlets. The leaves are needle-shaped, about long and channelled on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in a leaf axil on the end of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. There are five broadly triangular sepals about long and five pale pink or red petals about .

Members of the genus Paranepanthia are characterized by having five medium-length, broad-based rays that are narrowly flat on the oral (under) surface, with pointed or rounded ends. Pedicellariae are not present and the papular spaces are large with several small papulae. The marginal plates are in regular series, with tufts of short, needle-shaped spinelets, but the plates on the aboral (upper) surface are irregular. The type species is Nepanthia platydisca Fisher, 1913.

Hakea sulcata is a small spreading or upright shrub that grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are either thickly or sparsely covered in flattened soft silky hairs at flowering time. The leaves are needle-shaped, thick, pentagonal in cross-section, more or less long and in diameter and grow alternately on the branchlets. The leaves have 6 or 7 shallow longitudinal grooves and end in a sharp point.

Leionema oldfieldii is a small, compact shrub to high. The branchlets are more or less needle-shaped, with usually star to upright shaped soft hairs. The leaves are leathery, smooth, shiny, egg-shaped to oblong-elliptic, long, wide, flat with slightly rolled edges and finely scalloped toward the rounded apex. The inflorescence is a tight group of terminal, pale pink to white flowers on a fleshy, smooth pedicel about long with two small bracteoles near the base.

The inflorescence consists of 1-3 rosy-pink, white or mauve funnel-shaped flowers, 7–15 mm long, 8–20 mm in diameter, with a pale, greenish throat. The cluster of flowers are usually on needle-shaped stalks long covered with soft flattened hairs. Flowering occurs mainly in late spring and early autumn but may flower throughout the year in some locations. The seed capsules are roughly spherical in shape long and in diameter and with a smooth surface.

Hakea microcarpa is a shrub growing to tall but often wider than tall. Its leaves and branches are glabrous except for a few hairs on new growth and which are lost by the time of flowering. The leaves are usually needle-shaped, long and about wide but sometimes there are a few flat leaves up to wide. The flowers are off-white in colour and are arranged in groups of ten to forty in the leaf axils.

Philotheca ericifolia is a much-branched, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glandular-warty branchlets. The leaves are needle-shaped, long, sparsely glandular warty and channelled on the upper surface. The flowers are borne singly or in clusters of up to six on the ends of the branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. There are five fleshy, triangular sepals long and five elliptical white petals about long with a thick midrib.

Hakea ednieana is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree typically growing to a height of with brown furrowed bark and white hairy smaller branches. The needle-shaped leaves are long and wide with short soft white hairs. The leaves are on a base long then spread or turn upward and divide into 1-14 final segments long and wide . The inflorescence consists of 35-100 cream-white flowers on a stalk with white soft hairs that is long.

Members of the genus Nepanthia are characterized by having four to seven rays that are narrowly flat actinally (underneath), sub-cylindrical and tapering with the marginal edge weakly angular. Pedicellariae are present as are transactinal plates and superactinal plates. The plates on the rays are not in series, there is usually a single papula per space, the spines are fine, glassy but not needle-shaped and the superomarginal plates are irregular. The type species is Nepanthia maculata Gray, 1840.

Hakea newbeyana is a rigid, spreading, rounded shrub typically growing to a height of with ascending smooth grey branches and does not form a lignotuber.The branchlets are densely covered in flattened rusty-coloured, soft hairs. The rigid dark green leaves are needle-shaped, long, wide, straight to slightly curved and ending in a sharp point long. The 6-8 small, sweetly scented creamy-white and yellow flowers appear in clusters in leaf axils on a coarse rough stalk long.

Hakea strumosa is a rounded, dense shrub typically growing to a height of and wide and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets and young leaves are smooth or has dense, flattened, rusty-coloured silky hairs. The leaves are stiff, needle- shaped long and wide ending in a long sharp point long. The inflorescence usually consists of 4 and occasionally 6-10 small, deep pink or red mildly scented flowers in axillary clusters along the upright branchlets.

The Pico Cão Grande (Portuguese for "Great Dog Peak") is a landmark needle- shaped volcanic plug peak in São Tomé and Príncipe, in the Caué District of São Tomé Island in Parque Natural Obô de São Tomé. Its summit is above sea level, and it rises about over the surrounding terrain. The volcanic plug was formed by magma solidifying in the vent of an active volcano. The nearest village is Vila Clotilde, 3 km to the east.

Conditions on the ice cap are polar, and the ice surface has structures such as penitentes and sastrugi. Penitentes occur especially at lower elevations on the ice cap; at higher elevations they become smaller and eventually vanish, replaced with large, plate-shaped ice crystals. Towards the summit, the plates are replaced with column- or less commonly needle-shaped crystals, and eventually by dendritic crystals on the summit. On the summit there are lenses of ice, probably from melting.

The leaves are a good source of vitamins A and C and contain more protein than the corms. In its raw form, the plant is toxic due to the presence of calcium oxalate, and the presence of needle-shaped raphides in the plant cells. However, the toxin can be minimized and the tuber rendered palatable by cooking,The Morton Arboretum Quarterly, Morton Arboretum/University of California, 1965, p. 36. or by steeping in cold water overnight.

Hakea kippistiana is a woody shrub or small tree with spreading branches growing to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The branchlets are covered in white and rust coloured flattened hairs but quickly become smooth except at the leaf base. The dark green needle-shaped leaves are long and wide, ending with a hook at the apex. Flowering occurs from November to February and the flowers are strongly fragrant, white, cream or pink and arranged in groups of between 8 and 26.

Hundreds of cases of food poisoning caused by cheeses hit Michigan between 1883 and 1885, though none were fatal. Vaughan evaporated an alcoholic extract of a suspect cheese and ate some himself, noting mouth dryness and constriction of his throat. He purified it and noted a drop placed on his tongue caused burning, nausea, bowel pain, and diarrhea; he repeated this test both on himself and student volunteers. Purifying the substance further resulted in needle-shaped crystals he named tyrotoxicons.

Lemanskiite is a mineral that was first discovered in a mine at Abundancia mine, El Guanaco mining district, Chile, with the ideal formula of NaCaCu5(AsO4)4Cl•3H2O. Originally, this mineral was discovered as being dimorphus with lavendulan, but in 2018 it was revised to only have 3 water molecules. Lemanskiite typically occurs as rosette-shaped aggregates of thin lamellar or needle-shaped aggregates, such as lammerite. Lemanskiite is dark sky blue with a light blue streak, it is brittle with an excellent cleavage plane.

These attractive red to orange berries are extremely poisonous. The berries contain oxalates of saponins which have needle-shaped crystals which irritate the skin, mouth, tongue, and throat, and result in swelling of the throat, difficulty breathing, burning pain, and upset stomach. However, their acrid taste, coupled with the almost immediate tingling sensation in the mouth when consumed, means that large amounts are rarely taken and serious harm is unusual. In areas where both A. orientale and A. maculatum are found, they are easily confused.

Image of Pseudo-nitzschia Pseudo-nitzschia australis are a part of the genus which are bilaterally symmetrical diatoms with a protective cell wall layer called a silica. Their body plan is such that cells overlap with adjacent cells, allowing them to form chains. The cells are needle shaped, and the overlap between cells can be between one- third to one-half each cell length. Their total body length can be from 68-144 μm long and their width can range from 3-8 μm wide.

Eduard Schüller, was a German engineer and he had a decisive role in the development of the rape recorder and the videorecorders. Previous head designs were needle shaped and tended to shred the tape. An important discovery made in this period was the technique of AC biasing which improved the fidelity of the recorded audio signal by increasing the effective linearity of the recording medium. Ampex Corporation, the American electronics company's first tape recorder, the Ampex Model 200A, was first shipped in April 1948.

In the genus Archaea, the head is separated from the thorax by a deep fold, forming a "neck", so that the globular head appears to sit on the thorax. There are eight eyes, four on each side of the head, arranged in the shape of a rhombus, with the front eyes being the largest. The curved chelicerae are very long, longer than the head, with long, strong fangs. The pedipalps of the female are very small and thin, shorter than the chelicerae, the third and last segments being short, the latter needle-shaped.

White frost is a solid deposition of ice that forms directly from water vapour contained in air. White frost forms when there is a relative humidity above 90% and a temperature below −8 °C (18 °F) and it grows against the wind direction, since air arriving from windward has a higher humidity than leeward air, but the wind must not be strong or it damages the delicate icy structures as they begin to form. White frost resembles a heavy coating of hoar frost with big, interlocking crystals, usually needle-shaped.

In the beginning of the 1970s, gradual technological improvements of the previous decade resulted in the second generation of Type I tapes. These tapes had uniformly needle-shaped, highly orientable particles (HOP) of much smaller size, around in length, hence the trade term microferrics. Uniform shape allowed very dense packing of particles, with less binder and more particles per unit volume, and a corresponding rise in remanence to around . The first microferric (TDK SD) was introduced in 1971, and in 1973 Pfizer began marketing patented microferric powder that soon became an industry standard.

Scanning electron micrograph of black silicon, produced by RIE (ASE process) SEM micrograph of black silicon formed by cryogenic RIE. Notice the smooth, sloped surfaces, unlike the undulated sidewalls obtained with the Bosch process RIE. Black silicon is a needle- shaped surface structure where needles are made of single-crystal silicon and have a height above 10 µm and diameter less than 1 µm. Its main feature is an increased absorption of incident light—the high reflectivity of the silicon, which is usually 20–30% for quasi-normal incidence, is reduced to about 5%.

It weighs 95 tonnes, with a box steel section deck, supported by three cables, keeping the overall structural slender. The bridge swings on a pintle bearing, with a central wheel to support its weight. Construction began in August 2007 and the Bridge opened to the public on 20 March 2009, then was officially opened on 2 April 2009, a year behind schedule, by the Mayor of Derby. The bridge, designed by Ramboll, was partly inspired by tailor's shears and has an iconic needle-shaped mast, to echo the heritage of the nearby Silk Mill.

Meridianiite belongs to the triclinic crystal system, having cell parameters a = 6.7459 Å, b = 6.8173 Å, c = 17.299 Å, a density = 1.512 g/cm3, x-ray diffraction peaks at d-spacings = 5.73, 5.62, 5.41, 4.91, 4.85, 2.988, 2.958 (highest intensity), and 2.940, and is IR active. It produces needle-shaped to broad flat crystals that are clear to colorless-white. Meridianiite decomposes incongruently above 2 °C to produce epsomite (MgSO4·7H2O) and water. Meridaniite and water have an eutectic point at −3.9 °C and 17.3% (mass) of MgSO4.

Leionema praetermissum is a shrub to high with several or few stems emanating from the base. The stems are warty and needle-shaped with occasional white star-shaped hairs. The leaves are smooth, narrow, linear to lance shaped, long, edges slightly rolled under, arranged alternately, sometimes crowded, smooth and sessile or on a short petiole long, and ending with a sharp point. The inflorescence is a cluster of 3-10 flowers at the end of branches or in the leaf axils on a pedicel long, flowers barely longer than the leaves.

Leionema dentatum is a shrub or small tree to high with slender more or less needle-shaped stems. The leaves are variable and may be narrowly oblong or elliptic, lance shaped or linear, long, wide, smooth, apex squared or blunt with two teeth, margins rolled under or upward more or less toothed, underside white with star shaped hairs and a raised midrib. The inflorescence consists of about 10 flowers on an angled peduncle long, individual flowers on a slender pedicel about long. The calyx lobes are a wide-triangular shape and fleshy.

Rhadinothamnus euphemiae is a small, slender, upright shrub to high with needle-shaped branchlets densely covered in silvery scales. The leaves are mostly dense on short lateral branches, narrowly triangular tapering to a slender petiole, long, with two spreading lobes, leathery, smooth, occasionally rough or sparsely covered in scales on the upper surface, underneath densely covered in short matted star-shaped hairs. The single flowers are borne on short branchlets long with 2-4 linear shaped bracts at the base of the flower. The calyx has silvery scales, hemispherical, about long, the triangular lobes long.

The naiad of the dot-tailed whiteface is very small with a length of 9/16 to 3/4 inch (14–19 mm). Its abdomen is rounded, giving it a short, stocky appearance known as the sprawler form. Its brown in color and marked with either three dark stripes or two rows of dark spots running the length of the underside of the abdomen. There are needle-shaped hooks on the top of abdominal segments three through eight, and a single, rear-facing spine on each side of abdominal segments eight and nine.

Eremophila dichroantha is an erect shrub with many ascending branches which, although glabrous, have many raised glands. It grows to a height of and the ends of the branches and younger leaves are shiny and sticky due to the presence of resin. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems and are linear to almost needle-shaped, mostly long, about wide with a curved, hooked tip on the end. The flowers are borne in groups of 3 to 5 in leaf axils on a stalk which is long and sticky when young.

Hakea trifurcata has two distinct leaf forms, either needle-shaped or a broader oblong leaf visually similar to the fruit. The broader leaves only form when the shrub reaches sexual maturity and produces fruit. Unlike that of most other hakeas the fruit of Hakea trifurcata remain green at maturity and resemble the broader leaves of the species in shape and colour. Trials were conducted at the Perth Zoo to determine whether the broad leaves deterred granivores from foraging the fruit by the short-billed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus latirostris) .

The waters and adjoining seabed form part of the Needles Marine Conservation Zone and the Needles along with the shore and heath above are part of the Headon Warren and West High Down Site of Special Scientific Interest. The formation takes its name from a fourth needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife, which collapsed in a storm in 1764. The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck. The Needles were featured on the BBC Two TV programme Seven Natural Wonders (2005) as one of the wonders of Southern England.

Eremophila latrobei is usually an erect, many-branched shrub but sometimes straggly or spindly and which usually grows to a height of . Its branches are rough due to the presence of persistent leaf bases and are usually glabrous except when immature. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches, varying in shape from thread-like to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and from needle-shaped to flat, mostly long and wide. The flowers are usually borne singly in leaf axils on a hairy, curved stalk, long.

Leionema phylicifolium is a compact shrub to high, branchlets are more or less needle-shaped with star to upright shaped soft hairs. The leathery, smooth leaves are oblong to elliptic shaped or narrow with recurved edges, long, wide and smooth margins. The inflorescence is a cluster of mostly 3-4 flowers in a cylindrical arrangement at the end of branches on a small stalk or a peduncle to long in leaf axils. The flower cluster is on a more or less fleshy, smooth pedicel long and has tiny egg-shaped bracts.

An instrument needle valve uses a tapered pin to gradually open a space for fine control of flow. The flow can be controlled and regulated with the use of a spindle. A needle valve has a relatively small orifice with a long, tapered seat, and a needle-shaped plunger on the end of a screw, which exactly fits the seat. As the screw is turned and the plunger retracted, flow between the seat and the plunger is possible; however, until the plunger is completely retracted, the fluid flow is significantly impeded.

Khellin has been used as an herbal folk medicine, with use in the Mediterranean dating back to Ancient Egypt, to treat a variety of maladies including: renal colic, kidney stones, coronary disease, bronchial asthma, vitiligo, and psoriasis. It is a major constituent of the plant Ammi visnaga, also known as Bishop's Weed. Once purified, khellin exists as colorless, odorless, bitter-tasting needle-shaped crystals and is classified as a gamma- pyrone, a furanochromone derivative. In the early 20th century, researchers searched for khellin analogs with lower toxicity and better efficacy.

Crenactin is an actin homologue unique to the archaeal kingdom Crenarchaeota that has been found in the orders Thermoproteales and Candidatus Korarchaeum. It has the highest sequence similarity to eukaryotic actins of any known actin homologue. Crenactin has been well characterized in Pyryobaculum calidifontis () and shown to have high specificity for ATP and GTP. Species containing crenactin are all rod or needle shaped and in P. calidifontis Crenactin has been shown to form helical structures that span the length of the cell, suggesting a role for crenactin in shape determination similar to that of MreB in other prokaryotes.

The leaves are alternately set, clustered on short shoots or uniformly arranged on long shoots, hairless or woolly only on the upper side of the leafbase. The leaves are more or less succulent, narrowly needle-shaped, long and approximately ½ mm (0.02 in) in diameter, usually with distinctly callous tip, more or less wrinkled, and with resin vessels on the inside. The flower heads are on the short shoots or at the tip of the long shoots, medium-sized, seated or on up to long stalks. The involucre is in diameter, and consists of three to four whorls of bracts.

Poisonous berries In autumn, the lower ring of (female) flowers forms a cluster of bright red berries which remain after the spathe and other leaves have withered away. These attractive red to orange berries are extremely poisonous. The berries contain oxalates of saponins which have needle-shaped crystals that irritate the skin, mouth, tongue, and throat, and result in swelling of throat, difficulty breathing, burning pain, and upset stomach. However, their acrid taste, coupled with the almost immediate tingling sensation in the mouth when consumed, means that large amounts are rarely taken and serious harm is unusual.

Leionema viridiflorum is usually a small shrub to high with more or less needle-shaped stems covered in star-shaped, short, matted hairs. The leaves are mostly erect, narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, long, wide, wedge shaped at the base, apex lobed, smooth margins, rolled under or upward when dry, upper surface dotted with glands with occasional smooth to star-shaped hairs, underside more or less covered in star-shaped hairs. The inflorescence is a cluster of 6-12 pendulous flowers on a stalk long at the end of branches. The calyx are fleshy and hemispherical shaped.

They closely resemble each other. The silicate was the rarer of the two, and was named hemimorphite, because of the hemimorph development of its crystals. This unusual form, which is typical of only a few minerals, means that the crystals are terminated by dissimilar faces. Hemimorphite most commonly forms crystalline crusts and layers, also massive, granular, rounded and reniform aggregates, concentrically striated, or finely needle-shaped, fibrous or stalactitic, and rarely fan-shaped clusters of crystals. Some specimens show strong green fluorescence in shortwave ultraviolet light (253.7 nm) and weak light pink fluorescence in longwave UV.

Druses in onion scales (100x magnification) A druse is a group of crystals of calcium oxalate, silicates, or carbonates present in plants, and are thought to be a defense against herbivory due to their toxicity. Calcium oxalate (Ca(COO)2, CaOx) crystals are found in algae, angiosperms and gymnosperms in a total of more than 215 families. These plants accumulate oxalate in the range of 3–80% (w/w) of their dry weight through a biomineralization process in a variety of shapes. Araceae have numerous druses, multi-crystal druses and needle-shaped raphide crystals of CaOx present in the tissue.

Cliffortia species are mostly upright shrubs, but some species develop into small trees of up to 5 m (16½ ft) high, are more or less herbaceous groundcover or grow in a dense tangle. The stipules have merged with the base of the leaf and form a sheath around the branch. The leaves are alternately arranged along the stems, and may consist of three, two or only one leaflet with one or several main veins, seated or on a leaf stalk. Leaflets may be thin or leathery, broad to needle-shaped, with the margin serrated or entire, and may have a spiny tip.

The next step was to align needle-shaped particles in parallel with flux lines generated by recording head; this was done by controlled flow of liquid magnetic mix over substrate (rheological orientation), or by applying strong magnetic field while the binder was curing. Typical microferric cassettes of the 1980s had lesser hiss and at least higher MOL than basic Type I tapes, at the cost of increased print-through. Small improvements continued for thirty years, with a gradual rise of squareness ratio from 0.75 to over 0.9. Newer tapes consistently produced higher output at less distortion at the same levels of bias and audio recording signals.

Needle Ice forming in a pile of red clay soil Needle ice pushing up soil particles Needle ice is formed of distinct, unconsolidated strands Needle ice can sometimes appear to curve or curl Needle ice is a needle-shaped column of ice formed by groundwater. Needle ice forms when the temperature of the soil is above and the surface temperature of the air is below . Liquid water underground rises to the surface by capillary action, and then freezes and contributes to a growing needle-like ice column. Needle ice requires a flowing form of water underneath the surface, from that point it comes into contact with air that is below freezing.

The granite mountains around Chamonix have been eroded into steep needle-shaped peaks (known as ). Known locally as protogine, these rocks are lower in the mineral biotite mica and richer in quartz than the granites commonly found elsewhere. A large part of the massif is covered by ice fields and is cut by numerous glaciers, mostly flowing northwestwards on the French side; southeastwards on the Italian side and eastwards on the Swiss side. With much steeper slopes on the Italian side, many glaciers drop very sharply and some, such as the Miage Glacier and the Brenva Glacier, are very heavily covered in rock debris.

Since 2006, commercial systems with laser pulsing have become available and this has expanded applications from metallic only specimens into semiconducting, insulating such as ceramics, and even geological materials. Preparation is done, often by hand, to manufacture a tip radius sufficient to induce a high electric field, with radii on the order of 100 nm. To conduct an atom probe experiment a very sharp needle shaped specimen is placed in an ultra high vacuum chamber. After introduction into the vacuum system, the sample is reduced to cryogenic temperatures (typically 20-100 K) and manipulated such that the needle's point is aimed towards an ion detector.

Leionema diosmeum is a shrub to high with smooth branches, leaves usually needle-shaped or occasionally oval to lance shaped, long, wide, rounded apex, upper surface smooth or covered in soft thin individual hairs or rarely fine rough hairs, lower surface with coarse star- shaped hairs. The inflorescence is a compact head at the end of branches, each flower in axils of linear bracts about long on a thick pedicel long, calyx is an inverted top shape and deeply lobed. The flower petals a creamish-yellow, light red on the outside toward apex, long with occasional hairs tipped with glands. The fruit are upright, about long with an angled beak.

The spores are narrowly ellipsoid, nonamyloid, and measure 6–7 by 3–3.5 μm. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are four-spored and measure 20–22 by 6–7 μm. The cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia (cystidia found on the edges and faces, respectively, of the gills) are abundant and similar in shape and markings, 40–58 by 10–15 μm, tapering somewhat on either end and usually with a long needle-shaped neck (which is branched in some). The cystidia are generally smooth, but when dried material is mounted in potassium hydroxide for observation under light microscopy, an amorphous substance apparently holds spores and debris around the neck or apex, making them appear encrusted.

Kyoto Tower reflected in the north facade of Kyoto Station Kyoto Tower has been the subject of controversy since it was in its planning phase. Public opposition not only stemmed from the tower's ¥380 million ($1.056 million in 1963) price tag, but also from the fact that many believed the needle-shaped spire was too modern looking for the ancient capital. The construction regulations in Kyoto that restrict a building's maximum height increase the sense of proportion between the tower and the low machiya and ferroconcrete apartment blocks below. These municipal regulations have ensured that the tower maintains its status as the tallest man-made structure in the city since its construction.

The Needles – View from the viewpoint near the former experimental rocket testing station The Needles from the cliffs inshore at The Needles Battery showing the Needles Lighthouse Close-up of the needles The Needles from Isaac Taylor's "one inch map" of Hampshire, published in 1759, showing Lot's Wife, the needle-shaped pillar that collapsed in a storm in 1764. The Needles is a row of three stacks of chalk that rise about 30m out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight in the English Channel, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay, and part of Totland, the westernmost civil parish of the Isle of Wight. The Needles Lighthouse stands at the outer, western end of the formation. Built in 1859, it has been automated since 1994.

The bridge design was inspired by the traditional silk route through the city and has given inspiration to the Cathedral Green Footbridge, with its needle-shaped mast,Prime Minister's Award , 2009, accessed January 2011 as they both draw inspiration from the Silk Mill and use its heritage as inspiration. Derby Councillor Chris Wynn, cabinet member for planning and highways, said "The design with the bobbins and billowing silk idea will tie in well with the Silk Mill and I think this will be very exciting when it comes to fruition."Derby Evening Telegraph, 7 April 2007 The side of the bridge showing one of the silk bobbin sculptures, which are at both ends of the bridge. The bridge took fourteen weeks to construct, is wider than its predecessor and designed to take cycles and pedestrians.

In the history of fungi, the name of genus Candida, derived from the family Debaryomycetaceae, comes from the Latin term "" which has the meaning of “glowing white” and also refers to as smooth and glistering. Genus Candida referred to any asexual yeast without any of the following characteristics: production of acetic acid, pigments of colours red, pink or orange, arthroconidia, unipolar or bipolar budding, enteroblastic-basipetal budding, blastoconidia formation on sympodulae, buds formation on stalks, triangular cells, needle-shaped terminal conidia, and having the ability to grow on inositol as a sole carbon source. Although there are 200 species identified in this genus, the taxonomy remains undefined and incomplete due to several reasons such as changing the words for some representations, the finding of new species and the reclassification of identified old species. This genus no longer includes species that test positive to diazonium blue B (DBB).

Imagery of the massive sulfate deposits sent back by the NASA Opportunity Rover in Meridiani Planum show numerous needle-shaped void spaces throughout the deposit. The now empty angular holes are interpreted as being cavities once filled by a highly soluble mineral species, most likely a magnesium sulfate. These cavities are observed to closely match the crystal habit of meridianiite, and have been proposed as sites where crystals of meridianiite were located, having subsequently dissolved when environmental conditions rendered the crystal unstable. Due to the decomposition of meridianiite to 70% epsomite and 30% water, it has been proposed that meridianiite may represent a periodic reservoir of water near the Martian surface. During warmer periods in Mars’ history it is possible that triggered melting of this mineral may help explain the occurrence of some of the chaotic, and short lived, surface-water episodes throughout Martian history. Remote sensing of other planetary bodies has also indicated the presence of numerous hydrated mineral species, including sulfates, near various planetary surfaces, a prominent example of which is Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The Mahabharata and the Manu Samhita list by name and formation many vyūhas ('battle formations'), some were small in size and others, gigantic, such as: # Ardha- chandra-vyūha ('crescent moon formation'), # Chakra-vyūha('circular formation') a large formation was devised by the Kauravas in which Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, was trapped never to emerge alive. # Garbha-vyūha ('womb-shaped formation'), # Makara-vyuha ('crocodile formation'), adopted by Bhishma in the Kurukshetra War # Mandala vyuha ('galaxy formation'), # Oormi vyuha ('ocean formation'), # Shakata-vyūha ('cart-shaped formation'), # Sarvatobhadra-vyūha ('grand formation'), # Suchi-vyūha ('needle-shaped formation'), # Shyena-vyuha (also called Garuda Vyuh) ('eagle formation'). At the commencement of the Kurukshetra War which lasted for eighteen days, the Pandavas, being aware that Bhishma stood protected by the "makara vyuha" and was ready for battle, they had adopted the invincible "sheyna vyuha" with Bhima leading stationed at the mouth and Arjuna stationed at the neck of the bird-shaped vyuha, and Yudhishthira patrolling the rear. # Vajra-vyūha was large a three-fold formation of warriors.