Sentences with phrase «concentration of the salt»

For example if you split a beaker of water into two halves with a semi permeable membrane and added salt to one side, water would move from the side of the beaker with no salt until the two concentrations of salt water were the same.

Saline soak: Make «normal saline» (a very low concentration of salt in water, which is not painful).

Formula contains higher concentrations of salts and minerals than breast milk does, so that extra water is often necessary for the kidneys to excrete the extra salt.

In the microscopic veins that permeate Arctic ice, for example, the high concentration of salt can maintain traces of water in a liquid state down to — 65 °F.

Any change to the balance of solutes, such as the concentration of salts inside and outside of the cnidocyte, sets off stinging.

And concentrations of salt particles in glacier cores indicate that seas became stormier in the 15th century.

But when worms were exposed to a modest concentration of salt, animals who were not exposed to FUdR had only half the lifespan of those who were exposed to the drug.

In the journal Science, the scientists noted that water could flow sluggishly just beneath the surface and remain liquid owing to high concentrations of salt, which acts as antifreeze.

Bacteria exposed to a moderate concentration of salt survive subsequent exposure to a higher concentration better than if there is no warning event.

After just two weeks, concentration of salt in the sweat had plummeted from around 100 millimolar — a typical value when the CFTR protein is dysfunctional — to about 50 to 60 millimolar, a bit higher than average but below the diagnostic bar for CF.

The test is commonly used in universal newborn disease - screening programs and measures the concentrations of salt.

[Based on the relative concentrations of salts such as potassium and sodium in the cytoplasm of all biological cells and questions regarding the formation of their fatty - acid membranes, however, scientists have also theorized that life began in hot springs on land rather in the oceans (Mulkidjanian et al, 2012; and Colin Barras, New Scientist, March 10, 2012.)-RSB-

These nanomembranes maintained their structure in water or alcohol, at different temperatures, in solutions with high or low pH, or high concentrations of salts, a feat that few cell membranes could accomplish.

«At the highest concentrations of salt, none of the zooplankton survived.

At the highest concentration of the salt alternative and the two highest concentrations of NaCl, we observed lethal effects on the zooplankton of our communities.

That study used a 5 % concentration of the salt crystals mixed with water.

The concentration of salt was 10 % in water.

This amount reduced the concentration of salt and ammonia in the rats» blood, and increased the potassium concentration.

The soaking times varied in these studies (5 - 20minutes) and they used different concentrations of salt solutions.

This ppt covers the required practical - Investigating the effect of a range of concentrations of salt or sugar solutions on the mass of plant tissu...

Kidneys maintain normal concentrations of salt and water in the body, help control blood pressure, aid in calcium metabolism and sustain phosphorous levels.

If the kidneys are affected, your veterinarian may find that the urine has abnormal levels of protein and a low concentration of salts (i.e., a low specific gravity).

Standing at 11,995 feet above sea level, Lake Minchin would've competed with Lake Titicaca for highest lake in the world, but it dried up thousands of years ago, leaving behind the flat concentration of salt we see today.

This occurs because rising concentrations of salt, which increase the density of water, cause the body of water to sink and draw in water from adjacent areas, initiating a loop known as thermohaline overturning.

Media coverage was good — except for the almost absolute avoidance of the term «salinity» to describe the concentration of salts in the surface ocean that Aquarius will retrieve — oh well.

Not exact matches

It separates two containers with a membrane — on one side is the contaminated water, and on the other side is water with a very high concentration of some kind of solute, usually salt.

Reduced salinity concentrations in the Murray Mouth and increased export of salt as a result of Commonwealth environmental water.

it's time to focus»... or ``... we need full 90 minute concentration», I have to take it with a grain of salt.

It's important to note that IsoLove ® BioGels are isotonic — this means the salt concentration of IsoLove products are matched to the salt concentration of vaginal cells.

Most other lubricants, freshening gels, and massage oils on the market are hypo or hypertonic (too low or too high of a salt concentration compared with vaginal tissues), and cause water to be pushed into, or pulled out of the vaginal cells.

I was studying the molecular biology and biochemistry of these organisms because their proteins had to be very stable to withstand very high temperatures and salt concentrations.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

Many theories have been put forward to explain the mystery of why, instead, Earth salt concentrations are «just right».

When the fish grew up in fresh water and seawater with high concentrations of CO2, they lost weight at double the rate of fish that were only exposed to salt water with higher CO2 levels.

So while mice like the taste of salt, past a certain concentration they find it disgusting.

Both groups noticed something else, though, that has an even more fundamental meaning for our understanding of how taste works: Though the ENaC-less mice did not seek out salt, they did avoid water with very high concentrations of it.

«We adjusted the concentrations of acid, base and salt components in the water and investigated the effect.

Tiny cups contained water with increasingly higher concentrations of either table salt or citric acid, the source of a lemon's sour taste.

In their system, a very high concentration of the organic salt sodium trifluoromethanesulfonimide (NaTFSI) stabilizes DMSO in the presence of sodium.

The rover detected a high concentration of sulfate minerals together with chloride and bromide salts in one rock outcrop.

Concentrations of two other chemicals in the ice cores, vanillic acid (a chemical formed when conifer forests burn) and non — sea salt sulfur (a primary component in acid rain), helped distinguish between soot from natural sources and that from industrial pollution.

However, many of these artificial DNA nanostructures need a much higher salt concentration than that in bodily fluids or cell culture buffers to maintain their structure and thus their functionality.

The study titled Food Quality Affects the Sensitivity of Daphnia to Road Salt, which was published recently in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, found that at food concentrations below 0.6 mg of carbon per litre, chloride concentrations below the current Canadian Water Quality Guideline were lethal to the daphnia.

The team discovered a new method for monitoring the concentration of the hydrogen fluoride, a highly detrimental impurity that forms from a reaction between trace amounts of moisture and the salt (LiPF6) in the electrolyte.

«At plant level, probes can be positioned at continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditions.

Before taking the treatments and then again two hours after, the subjects took taste tests where researchers gave them solutions of tastants in different concentrations and told them what taste to expect: sour, salt, sweet or bitter.

Vasopressin plays a crucial role regulating the body's relative concentration of water versus salt after eating or drinking, which could otherwise dramatically alter the mix.

For the latest iteration, they mixed the liquid and one of three concentrations containing cobalt, iron or molybdenum metal salts.

«We investigated whether coiling wire around the lower part of the plant stems to reduce the capacity of xylem to transport water to the shoot would result in low shoot moisture conditions and increase the sugar concentration of fruit like salt and water stresses,» the authors said.

The striped patterns also don't have the high salt concentrations we would expect from the repeated deposition and evaporation that would happen if the cause was water, says Anna Grau Galofre at the University of British Columbia in Canada.