Dropping bottle

is ASTM D 281, "Oil Absorption by Spatula Rub-out." The rub-out of a weighed amount of pigment is made on a glass plate or marble slab as linseed oil is slowly dripped from a dropping bottle or buret.

My message to everyone thinking of setting up a barbecue, lighting fires, dropping bottles, which can create fires, or lighting Chinese lanterns during this prolonged dry spell, is think about what you are doing.

"We're trying to ask people 'which place looks better, where people are dropping bottles or cans, or somewhere where there isn't any rubbish.

"They use these archaic two-stroke motors that use up more oil, so they're constantly dropping bottles in the sea and they wash up on the beach."

Some residents of buildings around the plaza have been yelling abuse and dropping bottles on soldiers, or providing food and a hideout for students.

"As they ran out, having been in there for only about 30 seconds, dropping bottles as they ran, the defendant was the last to leave.