Sentences with phrase «as thin»

The specimens of crystal are prepared as thin polished sections.

Keeping electrons on track is easy: they obediently confine themselves to metal wires as thin as a few nanometres across.

If such nanotubes could be chained together with no loss of strength, a piece as thin as sewing thread could lift a large automobile.

«In certain procedures, for example, when the polypropylene mesh is used as a thin strip to support the urethra and reduce the symptoms of stress incontinence, the results show it is beneficial to the patient and carries relatively little risk.

The balloon, made of plastic as thin as a dry - cleaning bag, rises to a float height of about 120,000 feet, which is three or four times higher than the cruising altitude of commercial airliners.

Electrical contacts that are integrated into the glove as thin conducting material transmit electric pulses to the fingertips.

«You can apply the MOF as a thin film over the surface of, for instance, an electric circuit.

When the cell line was established in the 1960s, material from the original tumor was saved as thin sections on microscope slides.

In fact, the completely unplanned «experiment» had left the crew gasping for breath as the oxygen concentration gradually fell from 21 per cent to less than 15 per cent, making the atmosphere as thin as at an altitude of 4000 metres.

When the electrodes and the active layer are printed as thin films on top of each other, defects in one layer will act as points of attack for the next layer to be printed.

The key is making the insulator as thin as possible in order to switch the channel faster and pack more transistors onto a chip.

We can consistently create uniform shells as thin as 2 nanometers.»

On the surface only the faintest impression — as thin as a shoelace — trickles across our snowmobile tracks.

The process of synthesizing functional one - dimensional materials — as thin metallic wires or paths conjured by chemistry — continues to evolve and push both theory and industry forward.

To avoid this problem, the array should be as thin as possible.

Needless to say, he was not pleased to learn that he was sharing his cecum (the segment of bowel from which the appendix dangles as a thin sac) with a pack of nematodes.

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.

Or they might interact with each other to produce organized structures, such as a thin, dark disk embedded within our galaxy.

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.

A Hewlett - Packard team crafted the device by inserting a layer of titanium dioxide as thin as three nanometers between a pair of platinum layers.

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.

Many of the surviving whales were described as thin and weak.

Rubin had told me that Ginger had the classic manifestations of Werner syndrome, such as thin extremities and a large waist.

The piezoelectric yarn is made up of twenty - four fibres, each as thin as a strand of 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.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

A piezoelectric yarn is made up of 24 fibres each as thin as a strand of hair, with each fibre having an electrically conducting core surrounded by an insulating and piezoelectric polymer.

The Well - Dressed Ape by Hannah Holmes (Random House) Holmes ignores our self - congratulatory tendencies and gives a witty, detailed look at Homo sapiens through the eyes of an evolutionary biologist, exposing us as a thin - skinned, dull - toothed, small - clawed, and pitiable species.

To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light - emitting diode manufacturers.

The six wheels are half a metre in diameter and as thin as cardboard.

«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.

Their approach, in which micro-liters of liquid containing a drug are instilled into the lung, distributed as a thin film in the predetermined region of the lung airway, and absorbed locally, may provide much more effective treatment of lung disease.

It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two - dimensional material.

SLIPS's thin layer of liquid lubricant allows liquids to flow easily over the surface, much as a thin layer of water in an ice rink helps an ice skater glide.

Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf appears as a thin line of slightly warmer area.

Malick, best known for directing visually rich dramas such as The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, presents breathtaking cinematography, using locales such as Hawaii's lava - oozing Kilauea volcano as stand - ins for the past.

North Carolina - based Semprius is making ultra-efficient solar cells as thin as a pencil tip and flexible enough to roll into a tube or print on plastic or cloth.

I don't know, sometimes with the iPod shuffle, I wonder if it would be better off as sort of headphones with an iPod in them, but and we may get there, because that's all part of Apple's philosophy: No buttons, as few buttons as possible, as small, as thin, as light, as possible.

And I think that Apple is always searching for fewer physical buttons on the devices because they think they're clunky; small [as] possible, as thin as possible, as light as possible; and with battery life — which causes weight, so that's what they're always fighting against with battery life — that will be longer than any sort of normal session you have with that product.

Whoever finds the drug that can cure the obesity epidemic will surely end up rich as well as thin.

It stores easily, too, as a thin design folded in half into a disc shape.

Certain kinds of sedimentary rocks, called Burgess Shale - type (BST) deposits, have the right characteristics to preserve soft - bodied organisms as thin carbon films.

And Hein, whom one departing top staffer called «not as thin - skinned as he used to be,» does not suffer criticism gladly.

The alleged abductor is described as a thin, white male, with blond hair, in his mid-20s to 30s and 5 - foot - 5 to 5 - foot - 9.

That is as thin a resume as I've ever seen for a candidate for State Senate.

Andrew is too busy running for president or maybe right now he's just busy running for «vice-president» and hosting «meet - and - greet» breakfasts» at 25 grand a pop to break bread with him and his friends Al Sharpton and Barney Rangel Remember what Richard Nixon said about Harold Stassen being «as thin as piss on a rock»?

While some other attorney general candidates also had voting lapses, none had voting records as thin as Rice's, records show.

«Harm» tests act as a thin end of the wedge for a liberal drug policy, because once you show that a drug is essentially harmless, as laughing gas is, you have to accept its legitimate use.

These winter veggies roast up to tasty flavorful perfection and blend and puree into as thin of a texture as you require.