7 sentences with 'lunar'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lunar and other words derived from it.
• « It is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the celebration of which varies from year to year due to lunar influence. "He who contemplates the coming of Ramadan must fast during that month," the Qur'an tells Mohammedan believers, who are not allowed to eat, drink, smoke or make love during the day. »
• « Despite the corrosion of the metal at the time of the find, it was determined that one of its inscriptions contained references to the calendar of Gemini of Rhodes (77 BC): the Sun, Venus, the lunar timetable and other details. Solla Price, an archaeologist, determined that this machine "looks very much like" a clock. When was it built? Between 82 and 65 BC. »
• « Helium 3 has been discovered on the pale lunar surface, a gas that is an energy panacea: with it, it will be possible to electrify future lunar bases and also the Earth without producing acid rain, the greenhouse effect or solid waste. »
• « Huge machines will process the lunar rocks to separate the helium-3 from hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and some water molecules. »
• « Once the permanent lunar base is set up, mining machines will take the rocks from 3-metre deep quarries and transport them by conveyor belts to processing and separation centres, where the helium-3 will be obtained, accumulated in containers cooled with liquid nitrogen. »
• « These carved drawings of a supposed calendar have circles corresponding to the 28 days of the lunar month, and smaller circles with the 12 rays of the months of the year. Another seven rays correspond to the days of the week. »
• « It is a calm night on the Delaware Bay, east coast of the United States. The full moon illuminates a calm sea that peaks at the lunar tide. »