Sentences with phrase «around tiny particles»

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

«Consider the way snowflakes only form around tiny particles or bits of dirt in the air,» Xin said.

Not exact matches

Even children who don't chew on paint chips can get lead into their system if there's lead - based paint in or around their home or another building they spend time in: Doors and window frames covered with lead paint release tiny particles of lead dust into the air every time they're opened or closed.

The «sprayer» used to spray poo into the toilet is splashing tiny little particles of fecal matter into the air on toothbrushes, floor, etc and with a little one crawling around everywhere and putting everything into their mouths, it is HIGHLY unsanitary.

By guiding tiny particles around themselves, small moons embedded in Saturn's rings create the propeller - like features seen here.

Now, Arnold and his team at NYU Tandon's MicroParticle PhotoPhysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics (MP3L) are the first to find a way to determine the density of charges on an area of a WGM micro-bead's surface, as well as the charge of an ensnared nanoparticle or virus, by measuring how light frequency fluctuates as the tiny particle follows its wobbly course around the sphere.

On September 13 and 14, Cassini took a last look around the Saturn system's greatest hits, taking a color mosaic image of Saturn and the rings, a movie sequence of Enceladus setting behind Saturn, Titan and tiny moonlets in the rings that pull the icy ring particles around themselves to form features called propellers.

The microscopic organism — an archaea known as Metallosphaera sedula (seen as a cluster of tiny dots sitting in the middle of the meteoritic dust particle pictured above)-- was originally found in 1989 living in Italy's hot acidic sulfur springs around Vesuvius.

One suggested that tiny electrical charges around the ring might be trapping dissolved coffee particles, but calculations indicated it would take hours for all of the particles to migrate to the border — much longer than the drying time.

Other tiny solid and liquid particles called aerosols are also being transported around the atmosphere, but these are largely invisible to our eyes.

(Twenty - seven kilometers of tunnel underground Designed with mind to send protons around A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride»Til in the hearts of the detectors, they're made to collide And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum And then...)

One potential way of getting around that problem is by supposing that elementary particles such as electrons, photons and quarks are really just manifestations of tiny strings of energy jiggling in higher dimensions.

Not exactly a wave in the ordinary sense, the swerve was a deviation from straight line motion postulated by the Greek philosopher Epicurus around 300 B.C. Unlike Aristotle, Epicurus believed in atoms, and argued that reality was built entirely from the random collisions of an infinite number of those tiny particles.

Although the tiny particles are around ten thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, the surface area of a kilogram of such particles is equivalent to that of several football fields.

Possible reasons revolve around tiny natural and manmade particles called aerosols that serve as seeds for cloud droplets to form around.

Comprising tiny rolled sheets of graphene oxide, these structures can zip around easily through both oil and water, picking up any oil particles they encounter and transporting them as cargo for later release.

The tiny dust - sized particles of whey protein floating around in the air can trigger an allergic reaction on the skin, leading to the whey protein allergy rash or even an outbreak of hives.

The graphics are definitely more advanced, with tiny little illuminated particles being thrown around at every turn.

Planktos, a self - styled «eco-restoration» firm that also doubles as a nuclear fusion company (3), intends to dump tens of tonnes of tiny iron particles over 10,000 square kilometres of ocean around the Galapagos Islands at the end of May 2007.

As the UN's top climate science panel, the IPCC, prepares to criticise the idea of geo - engineering, one maverick geo - engineering company, Planktos Inc, has announced it is about to dump several tonnes of tiny particles into the waters around the Galapagos Islands, covering an area larger than Puerto Rico.

That's because the tiny ash particles and aerosols that were blown into the stratosphere spread around the planet, blocking some of the Sun's rays from ever reaching Earth.