a metalsmithing technique using tiny spheres of silver and attaching them to a silver base in complex designs Most commonly seen in Balinese metalwork One of my favorite types of beads!
the act of forming something into granules or grains; "the granulation of medicines" new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process
One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing
(pronounce: gran-u-lay-shun) granulus = [Latin] small grain, from granum = [Latin] grain Granulation covers most of the visible surface (the photosphere) of the Sun It looks a bit like rice pudding, with individual bright "rice kernels", called granules, separated from each other by a connected network of dark paths, called intergranular lanes Granulation can be seen in the high-resolution continuum image and in the very-high-resolution continuum image H
The process of bonding small spheres or chips of metal to a parent metal Bonding is traditionally accomplished by eutectic soldering Granulation is seen in a variety of ancient metals work, most notably in Etruscan jewelry
One of the most elaborate metal work techniques, devised in ancient Greece, perfected by the Etruscans and lost in the Western world for 2,000 years Tiny granules are soldered to a solid backplate to form surface design--granules may be as small as 1/1000 of an inch and form a surface texture
Cellular structure of the photosphere visible at high spatial resolution Individual granules, which represent the tops of small convection cells, are 200 to 2000 km in diameter and have lifetimes of 8 to 10 minutes
bright spots of convection on the Sun's surface 700 to 1000 kilometers across forming a honeycomb pattern Formed from hot, bright gas rising from below in the center of a granule and cooler, dimmer gas falling back down at the edge of a granule