Términos

Traditional Korean decoration technique developed during the Yi dynasty in which brightly colored patterns or pictures are drawn on thinned, semitransparent sheets of ox horn which are then applied to chests and other household accessories.

Túnica nupcial tradicional coreana, un abrigo con mangas fluidas confeccionado en seda bordada. Ha sido una prenda de vestir nupcial femenina de gran importancia cultural desde principios de la dinastía Choson. El hwalot evolucionó a partir de los estilos de vestimenta chinos.

Úsese para describir obras producitas por africanos del mismo nombre que viven en Ghana y Costa de Marfil.

Nombre comercial para una resina transparente, incolora y de baja viscosidad que se endurece para formar un enlace claro, siendo un adhesivo epoxi de dos componentes hecho con el diglicidil éter de bisfenol A y trietilendiamina. Se ha utilizado para la restauración de vidrio y porcelana. Hxtal puede decolorarse a la luz solar directa.

Genus of bulbous flowering plants native to the eastern Mediterranean.

Family containing four living species in four genera, characterized by long forelegs, a powerful neck and shoulders, a bear-like gait due tofront legs being longer than their back legs, intelligence, excellent sight, hearing, and smell, powerful carnassial teeth adapted for cutting flesh, and premolars for crushing bone. They originated 26 million years ago from arboreal ancestors in the cat group.

Impresiones positivas a la albúmina en vidrio ampliamente usadas para crear diapositivas y algunas veces transperencias de vidrio de mayor tamaño, colgadas en las ventanas para decoración; producidas por un proceso patentado llamado hyalotipia, desarrollado y promovido por los hermanos Langenheim de Filadelfia desde 1850. Se distingue del "cristalotipo" en papel producido por un proceso similar patentado por J.A. Whipple de Boston.

The first photographic positive transparency process utilizing albumen-coated glass plates for making lantern slides. Introduced by Frederick and William Langenheim of Philadelphia in 1849. The process was also used for making large glass transparencies hung in windows as decorative works.

Members of a genus containing freshwater invertebrate animals of very simple structure, the body having the form of a cylindrical tube, with a mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles with stinging thread-cells, usually living attached to objects or plants, though able to float or move by cartwheeling from base to tentables; they reproduce by buds or eggs.

Refers to he incorporation and absorption of water.

Dams built using materials that are excavated, transported, and placed by hydraulic methods. Coarse materials of the slush settle at the outer edge and finer materials settle towards the center, forming an impervious central core. Compaction is not done, and poor drainage and settlement may cause failure of this type of dam.

Automatic pumps that use the kinetic energy of descending water to raise the water above its original height.

Hydrazine is a hydronitrogen compound and a powerful reducing agent. It is a colorless liquid synthesized for use in pesticides and as a corrosion inhibitor in boilers. It is also a component in rocket fuels. In conservation, hydrazine has been used to reduce manganese content in medieval stained glass and thus to lighten browning.

Vasijas para agua de la Antigua Grecia y Roma, con tres asas: dos laterales horizontales para alzarlas y un asa vertical en el dorso para sostenerlas y verter el líquido. Muchos hidrias se hicieron también en bronce, además de terracota y, a diferencia de las versiones de metal de otras formas, sobreviven un buen número.

Hidrias de forma estándar utilizadas para vasijas con figuras negras. Esta vasija sustancialmete se distingue por una boca grande y redonda, cuello compensado, hombro llano amplio, y de cuerpo ancho. Esto continuó en forma de figuras rojas, pero es menos común.

Familia que contiene las hidras.

Family containing 18 genera of submerged and emergent, freshwater and saltwater aquatic herbs, mainly of warmer regions.

Nonmetallic chemical element (H). It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, the lightest chemical element, and is used in rocket fuels and balloons. Its most important compound (with oxygen) is water.