Sentences with phrase «as a human hair»

Pictures, videos, emails, phone calls and more, traveling through glass fibers as thin as human hair, all at the speed of light.

The threads can be abstract elements or represent literal things, such as human hair.

«It's very difficult to do this because of the minute size of the neurons,» which are roughly one - tenth as thick as a human hair.

One of the rover's many tools will be a laser designed to illuminate rock features as fine as a human hair.

Dog hair grows and dies just as human hair does.

If you're talking about an ordinary human shampoo, under no circumstances should you resort to such a thing as human hair is different from a canine fur.

Instead, it sends down roots, as thin as human hair, searching for water to insure its survival during the dry summer months.

A new endoscope as small as a human hair was used to image neuronal activity in mice.

These tiny polymer scaffolds contain channels that are about 100 micrometres wide, about the same diameter as a human hair.

The metamaterials were created with nonlinear optical response a million times as strong as traditional nonlinear materials and demonstrated frequency conversion in films 100 times as thin as human hair using light intensity comparable with that of a laser pointer.

The microcapsules, which are about the same width as human hair, contain both positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles.

To answer these questions we should start at the very core of e ink technology: small capsules filled with a clear fluid containing teeny - tiny particles, each about as wide as a human hair.

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These are combined with diverse materials such as human hair, amulets, silver chain and medicine balls.

That's about as long as it takes for the laser light to go through the target, which is only 1/100 as thick as a human hair.

Researchers have developed an endoscope as thin as a human hair that can image the activity of neurons in the brains of living mice.

Belle wore a hat attached to about 100 wires as fine as human hairs.

By comparison, 2 - D monolayer materials are composed of a single layer of atoms or molecules whose thickness is 100,000 times as small as a human hair.

Here physicist Neil Fox spends his day manipulating delicate films of diamond as thin as a human hair.

The plane's frame needed to be strong enough to carry a human pilot, several days» worth of resources and four heavy batteries, but light enough to fly on the solar energy absorbed by the 17,000 solar cells — each as thin as a human hair — mounted on its wing, fuselage and horizontal stabilizer.

When bats echolocate, they emit rapid - fire, high - frequency clicks (usually out of range of human hearing), then swivel their ears like radar dishes to catch the echoes, a system sensitive enough to detect objects as thin as a human hair and tiny, night - flying insects.

Made from keratin, the same material as human hair, these nanofibers are packed together like bundles of uncooked spaghetti, the team reports online today in Biology Letters.

Study of the materials has been hindered by their extremely small size: A single metal thread is sometimes only as thick as a human hair, and the thickness of its gold coating is a hundredth of that.

Using this device, which consists of several tubes contained within a needle about as thin as a human hair, the researchers can deliver one or more drugs deep within the brain, with very precise control over how much drug is given and where it goes.

And all of that is before you arrive at the tail lights which provide a theatre - like show across the width of the car, and come complete with four OLED slivers per side, each with a lighting element only one two - hundredth as thick as a human hair.

Dog fur isn't exactly the same as human hair, and dog skin is not the same as the skin on a person's scalp.

These interests have remained central to his practice and extend into the large group of modestly scaled wall works made between 2002 and 2011, which contain not only the metal tool parts and carved wood found in much of his oeuvre but also symbolically loaded materials such as human hair and the asafetida bags traditionally worn on the body to ward off disease.

Retrofuturistic imagery is collaged with materials such as human hair, acrylic shards, crystals, and dried flowers.

Zorica Zafirovska is a visual and conceptual artist whose multi-layered practice includes drawing, installation, and design and the use of a variety of materials such as human hair and blood.

BIO / STATEMENT: Zorica Zafirovska is a visual and conceptual artist whose multi-layered practice includes drawing, installation, and design and the use of a variety of materials such as human hair and blood.