Sentences with phrase «as microscopic particles»

These cat allergens become airborne as microscopic particles, which when inhaled into the nose or lungs can produce allergic symptoms.

The cat allergens become airborne as microscopic particles and these are breathed in by the allergy sufferer.

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Furthermore, on the microscopic level the very concept of localizable particle as well as the continuity of trajectory loses its meaning.

Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of nanoparticles — microscopic particles of matter measured on the nanoscale.

These ultra-fine particles are much more dangerous than larger particles, as the lungs have difficulty filtering the microscopic airborne debris.

One is string theory, which describes the fundamental constituents of matter not as point - like particles but as microscopic vibrating strings.

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

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.

Clouds of electrons created by ionised gas in the beam chamber and microscopic dust particles — playfully known as unidentified falling objects, or UFOs — are interrupting the beams and making it harder to get the LHC running consistently.

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.

As a small spaceship landing on the moon, the microscopic particles land on the surface of the bacteria where they inject their deadly genetic material.

To that end, the team made a significant discovery two years ago when it created a revolutionary way to manufacture soft materials using 3D printing and microscopic hydrogel particles as a medium.

Another perplexing oddity is known as quantum tunneling: In the microscopic realm, particles can travel across barriers that, in theory, they should not have the energy to get through.

The magnetite particles are thought to act like microscopic compass needles, relaying information to the nervous system by straining or twisting receptors in cells as they attempt to align with the Earth's magnetic field.

There have been articles as far back as the 70s concerning global dimming but it's only very recently, apparently, that all of the probable causes (e.g. the microscopic particles causing smaller water droplets in clouds, enhancing the mirror effect, as well as contrails) have been understood.

One of those complex interactions is aerosols, the microscopic particles of dust, soot, and chemicals dispersed in the atmosphere that scatter or absorb sunlight and act as seeds for cloud formation.

Microscopic particles of stardust, known as «pre-solar grains,» have been found in meteoritic material on Earth.

Comets might form by combining smaller ice particles, including ice condensed as frost on microscopic dust grains that somehow formed.

UV light and the salt in seawater cause microscopic particles of plastic to emit toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT.

On a smaller level, UV light and the salt in seawater cause microscopic particles of plastic to emit toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT.

As any light hits the bamboo silica in this matte foundation formula, the microscopic particles will bounce light away from the face, resulting in a red - carpet - worthy filter for skin.

Electronic paper, which started out as a project at legendary Silicon Valley research lab PARC in the 1970s, is built around microscopic spheres that are filled with charged particles.

A virus is a microscopic particle made of DNA (or a very similar molecule known as RNA) surrounded by a coat of protein.

The microscopic skin particles that are cast off by dogs, cats, hamsters and other pets are known as dander, and can quickly spread throughout your home and cause allergic reactions for anyone who has a pet allergy.

There have been articles as far back as the 70s concerning global dimming but it's only very recently, apparently, that all of the probable causes (e.g. the microscopic particles causing smaller water droplets in clouds, enhancing the mirror effect, as well as contrails) have been understood.

Soot, microscopic airborne particles that are also known as black carbon, is the second - leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and it's entirely preventable.

The actual wavelengths / photons / particles of visible light are really tiny — all high energy signifies here is that the waves are closer together and smaller in height, they are so because travelling at the same speed as longer waves they have to be considerably smaller, and end up being microscopic like near infrared and visible is even smaller, thermal infrared can be the size of a finger nail.

Microscopic soot particles, far smaller than those that collect on urban windowpanes, have increasingly been identified as a leading pollution threat.

It's the microscopic plastic particles, small as a grain of salt, which fish mistake for food.

The cancellations in Boston are the result of a worldwide ripple effect after aviation officials over the past weekend had to temporarily shutdown large airports in Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands, as well as London's Heathrow Airport — Europe's busiest airport — because of the ash cloud, which poses dangers to aircraft because microscopic particles can stall a jet engine.