Sentences with phrase «as human hair»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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Dog hair grows and dies just as human hair does.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

He says the 360 Eye sucks between seven to eight litres of air through it per second — twice that of the Roomba — which gives it the power to pick up particles as small as 0.5 microns, or smaller than a human hair.

The machine can form layers as thin as 25 microns, which is thinner than most human hairs, and has a total a build volume of 4.9 by 4.9 by 6.5 inches.

This new healthcare tech could be even more groundbreaking, as scientists are working to shrink the sensors to microns wide, about the width of a human hair.

That's the danger with the anthropomorphism of God... one people making self idolizing images of themselves of a human God vis - à - vis Jesus, making graven images of themselves, blonde hair blue eyed Jesus»... then elevating themselves above all other men, a self reinforcing feedback to oneselfs, as if they are Gods, which is blasphemy.

«Tom», even though krhodes share the same intellect as a box of hair, a box of hair might remind a human of a loved one.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

It's made of 100 % virgin human hair and can be dyed and bleached just as you would your real hair.

The new frequency comb is the size of a human hair compared with traditional frequency combs that can be as large as an apartment refrigerator.

Carbon nanotubes are a tube - shaped material which can measure as small as one - billionth of a meter, or about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

Recently, holograms that are mere hundredths of the thickness of a human hair have been made from metal deposited onto materials such as silicon.

If the size of these crystalline structures is 1,000 times smaller than a single human hair diameter, then they are called nano - structures such as nano - rods, nano - wires, nano - ribbons, nano - belts etc..

The technology builds on tiny structures known as silicon photonic wires, which are roughly a hundred times narrower than a typical human hair.

«With an outer diameter of only 130 microns, the probe is as thin as a single strand of human hair,» says Dr Jiawen Li, a researcher with the Adelaide Medical School, ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide.

«The nakedness of humans is a glaring difference between humans and other mammals,» says evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel of the University of Reading, U.K.. Although humans have about as many follicles as other primates, the hairs are fine, exposing the skin and creating an evolutionary enigma.

The sulfuric acid condensed into minute droplets — each two hundred times finer than the width of a human hair — that could easily remain suspended in the air as an aerosol cloud.

Still, by identifying the human hairless gene as an important master switch in regulating cell death in a hair follicle — a discovery that could lead to gene therapies for unwanted hair growth — Christiano emerged as a new star in the field, and a glamorous one.

They also tracked Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4), a well - known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and frequently cause the haze over urban areas.

«We've been trying to track down the genetic and molecular basis of naturally occurring traits — such as hair and skin pigmentation — in fish and humans to get insight into the general principles by which traits evolve,» said David Kingsley, PhD, professor of developmental biology.

This is because the etching is only 10 to 20 micrometers deep — a layer as thin as a quarter of the diameter of human hair.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bhair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bHair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

In the chamber, tubes about the thickness of a human hair were lined with endothelial cells as in natural blood vessels.

«By analyzing mice with the WNT10A mutation, as well as tissues from human patients with WNT10A mutations, we found that WNT10A regulates the proliferation, but not the maintenance, of stem cells in hair follicles,» said Sarah Millar, PhD, vice chair for Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology.

Kopeikin estimated that Jupiter caused only a tiny amount of deflection — less than 15 billionths of an arc second, or the thickness of a human hair as seen from a distance of 400 miles.