Word: annular
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...arranged to feed into the rotor slipstream a mixture of high S-value phenylhydrobenzamine and 5% reminative tetryliodohexamine. Both of these liquids have specific pericosities given by P = 2.5C.n^6-7 where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer . . . but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope...
...April 7 there will be an annular eclipse of the sun. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon's image, though centred against the sun's disk, is too small to cover it entirely, leaving a ring of bright light around the edge. The images of the sun and moon are nearly the same size in the sky, but the distance of both bodies from earth varies slightly, and the size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola...