Sentences with phrase «acts as a lubricant»

Water acts as a lubricant for our joints, regulates our body temperature through sweating and respiration, and helps to flush waste.

It also serves another purpose: it acts as a lubricant to help your baby slide out easier during birth.

«Water acts as a lubricant and is an absolute necessity in the initiation of a self - sustaining subduction,» says Gerya.

That thin layer of turbulence acts as a lubricant that allows the rest of the air to flow smoothly all the way around the ball, minimizing the size of the turbulent wake and the drag — a phenomenon known as the drag crisis.

In essence, the fluids can act as lubricants between two abutting rock faces, helping them to suddenly slip along the boundary.

They reason that with warmer temperatures, there was more water available to act as a lubricant beneath the glaciers, easing their inexorable slide to the ocean.

He added that studies showed that melt water had been penetrating the glaciers and was acting as a lubricant between the ice and the base rock.

Synovial fluid acts as a lubricant for your joints helping you move effortlessly and without pain.

In the cold weather, you should take supplements that act as lubricants for your joints.

Fiber helps to add substance to the colon while the healthy fats almost act as a lubricant in the colon.

Dopamine: When a person feels pleasure, success, pride, dopamine is released into the brain and acts as a lubricant of sorts, increasing attention, motivation, and memory.

I'm thinking this might be due to the brake fluid on the clamp acting as a lubricant, any ideas on how I might unstuck it?

Anti-seize does a lot more than act as a lubricant.

Drivers already know that oil basically acts as a lubricant for the engine, but the team at our Chrysler service center serving Huntington Beach knows that it is needed for far more that.

The tinge of yellow is the mucus that acts as a lubricant to help move the stool through the intestinal tract and out of the body.

Tears keep the conjunctiva moist and the mucoid protein which which they contain acts as a lubricant.

Saliva acts as a lubricant and contains ptyalin, an enzyme which helps break down starch in the diet.

Water at the base of sheet acts as a lubricant to assist sliding, so fewer moulins in the ice can slow the sliding effect.

The water acts as a lubricant, making it easy for the snow and ice to fall quickly and abruptly in one big release, e.g., «avalanching.»

Not exact matches

«For example, the droplet can act either as a lubricant, targeting an area that needs lubrication.

Because fat already acts as a digestive «lubricant, increasing fat too quickly can cause this problem to get worse.

While alcohol can act as a social lubricant and may provide «liquid courage» for people who are otherwise anxious or shy, Pagano warns against relying on it too much.

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Found in many high end beauty serums, hyaluronic acid is the main component in synovial fluid, acting as a joint lubricant.

It prevents constipation by acting as a natural lubricant and allowing your body to purge toxins via elimination.

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Instead, I will supplement antibiotic topical therapy with Genteal Drops, a topical corneal lubricant that both relieves the pain of the ulcer, while acting as a protective barrier against the elements to facilitate healing.

This acts as an effective lubricant and will help your cat cough up the furball.

Companion animals are thought to act as «social lubricants» (Gunter 1999) by encouraging others to approach and engage in social conversation (McNicholas and Collis 2000).

The mechanism I have in mind is instead the rotation of the Earth's core relative to the crust, which is an inevitable result of the Moon's tidal drag on Earth combined with the relatively inviscid mantle acting as a kind of lubricant for that rotation.

A qualitative study of pregnant Indigenous women in Perth found that women commonly referred to smoking as normal, a stress release, a low health priority and a social experience, and commented that it was difficult to quit because they were surrounded by smoking from their family and household members.11 In the social context of high smoking rates and large numbers of adults per household, smoking may offer an opportunity to alleviate stress, acting as a social lubricant in «time - out, yarning, and sharing with others».11 This provides a critical target for intervention in antenatal smoking; in order to help women to quit, it seems that consideration of and involvement with the social context in which women live are essential.