Sentences with phrase «when tiny particles»

When tiny particles that aren't supposed to slip through your gut wall do, an immune reaction results and among its havoc includes — you guessed it — inflammation.

Urine that it vented also left a residue when tiny particles hit the craft's panels, so Lorenz suggests that future missions to Enceladus could look for signatures of life if similar residue is found in the minuscule dents left on a detector by ice grains from the plumes.

Because it is so tenuous, it is best seen with light shining from behind it, when the tiny particles are outlined with light because of the phenomenon of diffraction.

Not exact matches

4Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam of timber in your own eye?

She said the reason jalapeños are spicy, and differently spicy than most other chiles, is because there are tiny particles within the jalapeño that cause very tiny lacerations on the tongue and inside of the mouth when eaten.

Glories occur at a point in the sky opposite the sun when light scatters off tiny liquid particles, usually water in our clouds, refracting into rings.

«When you have a tiny particle that's 10, 20 or 50 atoms across, does it still behave the same way as larger particles, or grains?

Sure enough, the pictures disclosed a track of tiny bubbles when a particle darted through the superheated ether.

Dark matter detectors search for the tiny amounts of heat or recoil energy created when dark matter particles pass through.

Even for electrons, the lightest particles residing outside the atomic nucleus, quantum mechanics predicts that when exposed to light, a tiny but finite time interval to respond to the forces of light is necessary.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

On their own, aerosol particles are tiny; when a cloud droplet becomes a rain droplet, it grows by a factor of a million as droplets crash and coalesce together.

Cloud droplets form when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses onto tiny particles.

When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and debris.

Again, tiny particles — electrons and atoms — are responsible for a multitude of phenomena, but an illuminating picture only emerges when many of them are grouped into «quasiparticles.»

This revolution began when physicists realised that the subatomic particles found in nature, such as electrons and quarks, may not be particles at all, but tiny vibrating strings.

When they worked it all out, they determined they could explain the universe with something they called string theory, which replaces the pointlike particles in particle physics with tiny, elongated vibrating strings.

«What happens when you have urban and industrial pollution,» ACE - Asia scientist Huebert explains, «is that you wind up with so many small particles that you wind up with a very large number of very tiny droplets that are too tiny to settle out [of the cloud].

Laboratory tests suggest that when the shellfish suck in tiny plastic particles, their reproductive success suffers.

When the tiny collagen fibers shrink, the attached mineral particles become increasingly compressed, the science team found out.

It is theorized that the process may be similar to what happens on comets, when water vapor lifts tiny particles of dust and ice off the surface.

But the MIT team discovered that when it coated tiny particles with electrically charged molecules, chloroplants would suck those particles straight inside.

But when this happens, tiny magnetic particles in the rocks near areas where the seafloor is spreading will change direction to line up with the new pole.

The problem is when we spray these toxic fragrances into the air, they release tiny chemical particles, which we breathe in.

«When we breathe in these tiny particles, it can trigger inflammation throughout the body,» says Richard Isaacson, MD, director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at New York - Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center (who was not involved in the study).

This usually occurs at times when outdoor molds release their spores or when plants release tiny pollen particles into the air to fertilize other plants.

Even bigger problems develop when Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a man suspected of killing Peter's uncle, is turned into The Sandman — a being who is made up of tiny particles — after becoming an accidental guinea pig in a physics experiment.

While this is perfect for creating resilient monochrome and even grayscale images, where teeny - tiny black and white particles arrange in different distances to the surface of the display to form an image, it poses a problem when trying to show things in color.

When you wash those synthetic fabrics, tiny particles of plastic called microfibers are washed down the drain and released into the environment.

When snow forms, it crystallizes around tiny particles in the atmosphere, which fall to the ground with the snow.

Reducing SOx also reduces particulate matter, tiny harmful particles which form when fuel is burnt.

A third effect occurs when black carbon (BC) particles land on snow, and the tiny specks of dark material in the upper snow layers absorb heat from the sun and promote melting.

As part of that calculation, researchers have relied on simplifying assumptions when accounting for the temperature impacts of climate drivers other than carbon dioxide, such as tiny particles in the atmosphere known as aerosols, for example.»

And when volcanoes erupt they produce tiny particles that also reflect light energy in this way.

Nano Cell film, which works similar to quantum dot sheets found in Samsung's QLED HDTVs, is made up of tiny particles that emit light when they receive an electric current.

Asbestos is a known carcinogen, and when exposed, tiny particles can be released into the air you breathe.

When buying a vacuum cleaner look for HEPA or S - class filters if you have allergies, as these are designed to retain tiny particles like pollen and dust mite faeces.

The small particles of paint that are emitted from the nozzle can coat small corners, slats in a fence or any other tiny spaces which are almost impossible to do when using a roller.