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Her eyes filled with sickening whiteness; the car shooting hot white-light over the flowing tarmac; the car roared away from a diminishing lamp.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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Her eyes filled with sickening whiteness; the car shooting hot white-light over the flowing tarmac; the car roared away from a diminishing lamp.
We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red Ivan R. 2011
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Her eyes filled with sickening whiteness; the car shooting hot white-light over the flowing tarmac; the car roared away from a diminishing lamp.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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There has to be at least one good GLBT-friendly coven in the area, one that isn't all fluffy bunnies and white-light nonsense.
Have your squid and eat it, too. greygirlbeast 2009
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Sorry to break it to you but they are powered by LEDs (listen to the video just before the 3 minute mark) so unlikely to be that much cheaper than white-light LEDs (which are normally a mix of 3 different colour LEDs).
Nanofiber Bulbs are Efficient, Environmentally Sound | Inhabitat 2010
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Another difference is that some manufacturers (including Samsung) use white-light LEDs, while others (such as Sony and Sharp) tout RGB-colored LEDs.
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The scanners use white-light beams to create a body-shaped “point cloud” of 40,000 data points that captures not only about 200 different body measurements, including six different ways of measuring the waist, but also posture and left-right asymmetries — much richer data than a tape measure can collect.
Rightsize Me 2007
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The scanners use white-light beams to create a body-shaped “point cloud” of 40,000 data points that captures not only about 200 different body measurements, including six different ways of measuring the waist, but also posture and left-right asymmetries — much richer data than a tape measure can collect.
Rightsize Me 2007
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Another difference is that some manufacturers (including Samsung) use white-light LEDs, while others (such as Sony and Sharp) tout RGB-colored LEDs.
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But those are being addressed quickly by companies selling better and better options (e.g., you don't have to buy the white-light curly-cue bulbs anymore -- they come in frosted bulb covers that make the light very close to "normal").
Andrew Winston: Exxon is Green? CFL's "Probably" Reduce Energy Use? 2009
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