Sentences with phrase «called surfactant»

His lungs have entered the saccular phase and have started producing a soap - like substance called surfactant, which helps drain the amniotic fluid and replace with air once baby takes those first unassisted breaths outside the womb.

Lungs typically contain a compound called surfactant, or pulmonary surfactant, that helps with breathing.

Unlike soap - based microbicides, GML is not a so - called surfactant that aims to disrupt the viral membrane, says Haase.

A protein that is found in the lungs, called surfactant, are essential for the baby to breathe normally outside the womb.

The air sacs of the lungs, called alveoli, will be developed by the end of this week and will begin to secrete a substance called surfactant that keeps the lung tissue from sticking together.

For this, shampoos contain specific ingredients called surfactants, which are the main ingredients in shampoos besides water.

Imagine the surface of the nanostructure: there are ligands, also called surfactants, binding to the surface,» explains Zherebetskyy.

Not exact matches

Surfactant is a naturally occurring chemical needed to inflate the tiny air sacs (called alveoli) in baby's lungs when he or she is ready to breathe.

Baby shampoo also contains cleaning agents, called amphoteric surfactants, but these are considered to be less harsh than the more traditional sulfates found in many shampoos for grownups.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers from the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation developed a new chemical process to combine fatty acids from soybeans or coconut and sugar - derived rings from corn to make a renewable soap molecule called Oleo - Furan - Surfactant (OFS).

The team also found that antibodies to human surfactant proteins called SP - A and SP - B reacted with proteins taken from the fish, implying that both use the same «anti-glue» to keep their lungs open.

Soap — a surfactant called oleic acid — might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.

Soap nuts, which are not truly nuts but rather berries, are a natural surfactant called saponin.

• It can be a bit slippery when rubbed on the cat's fur due to an ingredient called sodium laurel sulfate, a surfactant also used in soap, shampoo, and detergent.

Incidentally, I have been unable to find out if the models which are producing the GW scenarios include some allowance for the fact that the ocean / atmosphere interface (the boundary layer, so called, an irritating nomenclature as the words already have a technical meaning) was changed drastically from about 1850 onwards by surfactant and oil spill pollution as the petrochemical industry and petrol engine technologies began to hit their stride.