Sentences with phrase «tiny glass spheres»

Tiny glass spheres released in the painting process create a subtle and glorious iridescent effect.

In 1986, Ashkin showed that the first optical atom trap demonstrated at Bell Labs also worked on tiny glass spheres embedded in water.

Typically, retroreflectors consist of tiny glass spheres embedded in the surface of reflective paint or in small mirrors shaped like the inner corner of a cube.

The film, made from transparent plastic embedded with tiny glass spheres, absorbs almost no visible light, yet pulls in heat from any surface it touches.

«Light at certain wavelengths can be absorbed out of a thin optical waveguide by a microresonator — which is essentially a tiny glass sphere — when they are brought very close,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

Not exact matches

That view began to change in 2008, when researchers found water inside tiny spheres of lunar volcanic glass.

In 1968, she discovered glass microbeads, the tiny prismatic spheres often embedded in roads or street signs for nighttime reflectivity.