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  2. Metallic Spheres - Wikipedia

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    Metallic Spheres is the tenth studio album by the ambient techno group the Orb, released in October 2010. It features the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and the Killing Joke bassist Youth. [3] It spent three weeks on the UK charts, reaching number 12. [4] In 2023, the album was remixed, partially re-recorded and released as Metallic Spheres ...

  3. Betz mystery sphere - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] The family of three, Antoine, Jerri, and son Terry, came across a small metal sphere the size of a bowling ball. Their first thought was the sphere had been a cannonball left from New World conquistadors. They decided to take the sphere back to their house. [2] Several days later, Terry was playing the guitar in their home.

  4. The Orb - Wikipedia

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    Featuring colourful light shows and psychedelic imagery, their performances often incited comparisons to Pink Floyd, whose guitarist, David Gilmour, later collaborated with them on the album Metallic Spheres in 2010. Their seventeenth studio album, Prism, was released on 28 April 2023 by Cooking Vinyl.

  5. The Orb discography - Wikipedia

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    Metallic Spheres, a collaboration with former Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour, was released in October 2010. It gave the group their highest-charting album in the UK since U.F.Orb, peaking at number twelve on the country's albums chart. [6] Metallic Spheres also charted in several European countries, including Belgium, Greece and Ireland.

  6. Klerksdorp sphere - Wikipedia

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    Klerksdorp spheres are found in carbonaceous shales (wonderstone) that occur as lenses within the 1.5 km (0.93 mi) thick Syferfontein Formation. It is composed of feldspar-quartz-phyric felsic volcanic rocks, basaltic to andesitic lava, tuff and breccia and is part of the 2.7 km (1.7 mi) thick Mesoarchaean Dominion Group.

  7. Mie scattering - Wikipedia

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    STRATIFY MATLAB code of scattering from multilayered spheres in cases where the source is a point dipole and a plane wave. Description in arXiv:2006.06512; Scattnlay, an open-source C++ Mie solution package with Python and JavaScript wrappers. Provides far-field and near-field simulation results for multilayered spheres.

  8. Newton's cradle - Wikipedia

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    Newton's cradle is a device, usually made of metal, that demonstrates the principles of conservation of momentum and conservation of energy in physics with swinging spheres. When one sphere at the end is lifted and released, it strikes the stationary spheres, compressing them and thereby transmitting a pressure wave through the stationary ...

  9. Van de Graaff generator - Wikipedia

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    A simple Van de Graaff generator consists of a belt of rubber (or a similar flexible dielectric material) moving over two rollers of differing material, one of which is surrounded by a hollow metal sphere. A comb-shaped metal electrode with sharp points (2 and 7 in the diagram), is positioned near each roller. The upper comb (2) is connected to ...