Sentences with phrase «by electrical charge»

Because neon gas glows red when excited by an electrical charge, it is a natural for rear brake lights, turn signals, and high - mount stop lamps, said Mike Tucker, an Osram Sylvania engineer.

A man is zapped by an electrical charge (he's OK).

It is taken internally for when it is mixed with water it becomes extremely porous and has the ability to attract by electrical charge heavy metals, toxins, harmful bacteria, pesticides and other pathogens.

Excited into action by the electrical charge, neurons communicate with each other and with muscles to create movement.

E-ink pixels are made of a bunch of capsules, and inside each are a bunch of tiny pigmented microcapsules that are pulled around by electrical charges to form an all - black or all - white surface.

Not exact matches

Just consider the electrical costs by calculating how much power your PC uses and how much your electricity company charges.

«A kind of electrical charge passes through the troops — he is sharing in their sacrifices, leading by example.

The Los Angeles - based company has developed technology that transmits ultrasonic waves (at a register well beyond what's audible) that are translated by devices as a microscopic quiver; this vibration is converted back into an electrical charge to power anything with a battery, no wires or wall plugs required.

«Half the calories a brain burns go towards simply keeping the structure intact by pumping sodium and potassium ions across membranes to maintain an electrical charge,» according to the video.

Those kinds of sharks like to be in the shallow surf, and actually can find prey by detecting the electrical charge emitted by their muscles.

The altenator will be spun by the engine which will provide the electrical energy to keep the battery charged and split water «ON DEMAND!»

Some scientists believe that an electrical apocalypse could really occur, in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack, described in one 2008 white paper as «a high - intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles.»

Well I guess I will step out and show how crazy I really am but I look at God as being pure energy, our bodies, our minds, everything we see is driven by energy and the «feeling» I spoke of is similar to an electrical charge.

An environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks, the feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Straus and a local mechanic spent eight years developing an environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks: The feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

The battery that supplies all electrical power is charged by little generators built into the rear wheels and the battery should rarely (if ever) need to be charged by external means.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

The new particles broke established rules by having fractional electrical charges of +2 / 3 or -1 / 3, and could also never be seen alone.

To transmit electrical signals along a neuron, a strong difference in charge between the interior and exterior of the cell is needed, which is created by pumping positive ions into the cell.

We are made of atoms, which are held together by the attraction of opposite electrical charges.

By contrast, capacitors, which are common in electronics, are short - term stores of electrical energy that charge almost instantaneously but hold little energy.

The result can also be influenced by tuning the electrical charge of the floor plate on which the particles rest — a parameter which is very easy to control in an experiment.

Locals living on the banks of the Yangtze still use indiscriminate electrical charges in the water and so - called rolling hooks — long lines set with hundreds of hooks that snag fish (and baiji) foraging on the bottom — decades after they were banned by law.

Later generations could be triggered by other stimuli, such as light, electrical charges, or a magnetic field.

The electrical charge was being conducted away by carbon black, an additive used to prevent deterioration of polyurethane in sunlight.

By contrast, most processors and random access memory (RAM) chips store information using electrical charge which is fast, but dissipates when the device is powered down.

The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught by surrounding sensors, when a dark - matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.

By storing information using both spins and electrical charge, spintronic devices should have greater storage capacity and process data more quickly — although researchers still have years to go to figure out how to connect and process spintronically stored information in futuristic computers, conventional and quantum.

In theory, computers could be made around a thousand times faster by «turbo - charging» their electrical components with light pulses.

The essential aim of magnon spintronics is to replace the electrical charge as information carrier in information technological concepts by magnons.

It's known that lightning is caused by buildup of positive and negative electrical charges inside a cloud.

A plasma cutter works by streaming pressurized gas such as argon through a narrow channel, where it acquires an electrical charge, transforming it into a blade of plasma traveling more than 1,500 miles per hour.

He notes that the group found that antenna deflections induced by an electrically charged honey bee wing are about 10 times the size of those that would be caused by airflow from the wing fluttering at the same distance — a sign that electrical fields could be an important signal.

These defects were observed by measuring tiny electrical currents created when charges that were frozen in the traps at extremely cold temperatures escape by receiving a jolt of thermal energy as the device is heated, a process called thermally stimulated current.

With their current work, the MIT researchers have enabled the control of the phase and electrical properties of this class of materials in a practical way, by applying an electrical charge.

Scientists have long known that brain cells communicate via electrical missives, created by charged atoms and molecules called ions as they travel across the membranes of those cells.

By first infusing the polymer with boric acid, the researchers quadrupled the supercapacitor's ability to store an electrical charge while greatly boosting its energy density.

The researchers also found that in nerve cells that detect short sounds, that ability is amplified by electrical properties of the nerve cell membrane's ion channels, which allow the entry and exit of charged chemicals.

This particular ion channel transmits electrical impulses by allowing charged particles to cross cell membranes in the presence of ATP, the ubiquitous energy - carrying molecule.

Ever since Benjamin Franklin's time lightning has been understood to be a large electrical discharge similar to that seen when a conductive object (like a metal doorknob) is touched after a static electric charge is picked up (by feet scuffing across carpet, for example).

When light is shone on the neuron, the channel opens up and allows electrical ions to flow into the cell; a bit like a battery being charged by a solar cell.

When the detector is illuminated — say, by a bright star — electric charges will be freed that will travel in the detector (helped by an electrical potential difference) until they are detected.

This means it will be bombarded by high - energy cosmic rays, which can interfere with signals, or even build up enough of an electrical charge to cause small lightning strikes on the telescope.

We now have several evidences that the pattern of electrical charges depicted by corresponding molecules (e.g. glycosaminoglycans) is an important signal for the orientation and migration of cells.

The flow of electrical charge and ions are controlled by the structure while the interface is charged, and the stronger binding of water molecules at the surface might explain why hematite dissolves more slowly than predicted.

Prevents chromosomes from collapsing into a single chromatin mass by forming a steric and electrostatic charge barrier: the protein has a high net electrical charge and acts as a surfactant, dispersing chromosomes and enabling independent chromosome motility (PubMed: 27362226).

When they reach the earth, some 40 hours after leaving the sun, they follow the lines of magnetic force generated by the earth's core and flow through the magnetosphere, a teardrop - shaped area of highly charged electrical and magnetic fields.

Hair detangler is a type of hair conditioner that smooths your hair by coating it with an oil or polymer and / or by acidifying it so that the hair's surface tightens up, smoothing the scales on the hair's outer surface or cuticle and imparting a positive electrical charge to prevent the static that can worsen tangles.»

For example, bentonite clay works by producing a negative electrical charge when it comes in contact with liquid.

So all the electrical systems are drawing power directly from the battery still (while the battery is just being charged by the alternator)?