• There are some dozens of lipids, each with its distinctive (or peculiar, or own) chemical pattern.
• Most of the amino acids contain an asymmetric carbon in a particular configuration called "L".
• The sand-sized grains may bear distinctive surface markings such as microstriations, ...
• In the special case where the exchanged quantum is massless the range is infinite.
• The generation of hydroelectric power is a distinctive industrial use of water in that it is entirely unconsumptive.