Sentences with phrase «air particles from»

Constructed plastic containments to prevent infected air particles from lurking around other clean areas in a home

Scientists found that emissions of tiny air particles from human - made sources — known as anthropogenic aerosols — were the cause.

Not exact matches

«In reality, the vast majority of the source term will never escape from the ocean as air - borne particles,» Spriggs said.

Using the suction apparatuses he saw in a sawmill as inspiration, he built his own vacuum that incorporated a cone - like cyclone system that could separate dirt particles from clean air.

Panasonic has trademarked a unique nanoe ™ technology that takes the moisture from your hair and in the air, and uses it to create tiny, moisture - rich particles that penetrate the shafts of hair.

Smoke inhalation from wildfires can also be deadly over time, since fine smoke particles in the air aggravate asthma, provoke inflammation, and strain the heart and lungs.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

Air classifiers are ideal for tasks that require ultra-fine particle sizes or particle distribution free from coarse material.

Dust floating through the air, particles from paint, clothing, dirt, and other particles can irritate sensitive sinuses and make them more susceptible to sickness.

The nose is an amazing filter lined with tiny hairs called «cilia», which help to filter, humidify and warm or cool air, therefore protecting your body from particles of foreign matters.

If you have a great filter like that in the Aprilaire High Efficiency Air Cleaner not only will your filter last longer, but you will have 94 % of pollen and mold, 72 % of airborne bacteria and fungi, and 56 % of dust particles removed from your home.

These specially designed filters trap dust particles, pet dander and other allergens, preventing them from being redistributed into the air.

Sneezes will naturally help eject germs and particles from the nasal passages and keep air flowing.

The soot particles from scented candles is so fine, it can't be detected in the air.

The hairs and mucus catch and collect particles, filtering them out from the air your baby breathes.

The Vicks ® Air Purifier offers a four - stage HEPA filtration system that helps capture airborne particles such as dust, pollen, smoke, mold spores, and pet dander, to help keep your family from breathing in all of those things you want to keep out.

«The scope of the investigation includes, but is not limited to,» the closing of the hospital's operating rooms for months after sand - size black particles began falling from air ducts, the staff member said, and has been continuing for more than a month.

Another organization, the Clean Air Task Force, estimates particle pollution from power plants claims over 40 lives a year in the Rochester area, for example.

Like chilly air warming a mug, heat can spontaneously flow from a cold quantum particle to a hotter one under certain conditions, researchers report November 10 at arXiv.org.

One thing that's unique about this vacuum is the high - efficiency filter that traps up to 99 % of allergen, pollen, and particles keeping them from recirculating in the air inside your home.

Prather's instrument — a tangle of metal tubes, wires, and airtight chambers nicknamed Shirley — tick - tick - ticks as its laser blasts apart hundreds of microscopic cloud particles, one by one, that are drawn in from the air outside.

Being able to predict the outcome of wet collisions could lead to better ways to filter moist particles from the air and mix together wet powders to make medicine, the team says.

Prather had spent 15 years developing a device that could suck in microscopic particles from the air and analyze their chemical composition in a few thousandths of a second.

Every day, numerous cars and trucks are wearing on Norway's almost one hundred thousand kilometers of road: Asphalt wear on the tires, the tires wear on the asphalt, exhaust flows out from the vehicles and all is shrouded by road dust, until a rainfall cleanses the air, leaving all the dust and particles in the ditch.

Fumes from nitrogen - rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions to form solid particles in the air.

The culprit: fumes from nitrogen - rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions to form solid particles, which constitute a major source of disease and death, according to the new study.

A granulate made of metal oxide circulates between the two chambers and is responsible for transporting oxygen from air to fuel: «We pump air through one chamber, where the particles take up oxygen.

Particles from small - scale energy use, mainly household fires for cooking and heating, are the leading cause of air - pollution deaths in many areas of Asia, researchers report in the Sept. 17 Nature.

The research focuses on the power of minute airborne particles known as aerosols, which can come from urban and industrial air pollution, wildfires and other sources.

Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.

«The study was the first to specifically isolate CO2's effect from that of other global - warming agents and to find quantitatively that chemical and meteorological changes due to CO2 itself increase mortality due to increased ozone, particles and carcinogens in the air.»

When more aerosols are added to the air, like from ship exhaust, water molecules have more particles to collect around.

In further tests, researchers stimulated sensitive long hairs on the spider's legs and body — previously known to pick up near - field airflow and vibrations — which generated a response in the same neurons that fired after hearing distant sounds, providing evidence the hairs are likely detecting nanoscale air particles that become excited from a sound wave.

Using publically available data about wind speed and water vapor flux from real - world atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic, the scientists created a computer model consisting of thousands of moving virtual air particles and found a close match between the complex swirls — the Lagrangian coherent structures — made by the air particles and the patterns made by the real atmospheric rivers.

On entering the atmosphere, these particles heat the air around them, causing the characteristic streak of light seen from the ground.

Teaming up with Shamsh Pervez, Ph.D., a professor of Chemistry at the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, India and a 2011 Fulbright fellow to DRI, Chakrabarty designed and executed a comprehensive study to investigate the nature and impact of pollutant particles emitted from the widely - prevalent cultural practice of open - air funeral pyre burning in India and Nepal.

The air we breathe is chock - full of organic compounds, tiny liquid or solid particles that come from hundreds of sources including trees, volcanoes, cars, trucks and wood fires.

And so the extraordinarily fine sulfur particles from Tambora that reached the stratosphere remained suspended in the air for years, freely transported around the globe by the winds.

When a particle detector trips the alarm, LOFAR's cosmic ray system grabs the previous 5 seconds of data that is held in the system's buffer, knowing that the signal from an air shower is somewhere in it.

The biggest particles tend to fall due to gravity and the smallest ones are pushed by air and are suspended for a while or are pushed far away from its place of origin.

Bottlenose dolphins catch the disease through direct contact with infected dolphins and respiratory particles, or those particles that travel through the respiratory tract from the air dolphins breathe.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

Hiatuses can also be triggered by volcanic eruptions that eject particles into the air, reflecting sunlight away from Earth, as happened after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.

THE sheer number of particles in urban air pollution may be the critical factor that pushes up death rates from heart and lung problems when cities are hit by smog, according to Anthony Seaton, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

Daily exposure to air pollution from sources including traffic, power plants, and other industrial sources consisting of fine particles in the prenatal period was estimated based on where these mothers lived.

Earwax, secreted in the ear canal, protects ears from building up dunes of debris from particles wafting through the air.

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

When the particles are introduced into the air — unless captured by high - tech particle traps — they can float away from power plant stacks and travel on air currents locally, regionally, and even globally.

The sound wave originates from the vibrating object, such as a vocal chord, and travels through the medium (such as air) causing all of the air particles to vibrate at the frequency of the vocal chord.

These air particles subsequently bump against air particles next to them and so forth, so the wave travels from air particle to air particle — all at the same frequency as the vibration of the violin string.