Special powders. Main uses: Latent fingerprints on non-porous and semi-porous surfaces. The special powders mixtures are developed to improve the characteristics of concentrated or regular powders: - greasy features are reduced. - lumps are avoided. - prints show better contrast.
Some muscadines in a bowl; the green ones are scuppernongs. The scuppernong /ËskÊpÉrËnÉÅ/ is a large variety of muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia), a species of grape native to the Southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger and first known as the 'big white grape'.
Tacking (sailing) Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel, whose desired course is into the wind, turns its bow toward the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. The opposite maneuver to tacking is called jibing, or wearing on square-rigged ships, that is, turning the stern through the wind. No sailing vessel can move directly upwind, though that may be the desired direction, making this a