Sentences with phrase «containing tiny crystals»

The team crushed a sample containing tiny crystals of osmium and liquid argon between the jeweled jaws of a diamond anvil, which exerts several hundred tons per square centimeter of pressure.

the top and middle layers, after freezing, contain tiny crystals of ice, and when i keep it outside the freezer long enough that ice crystals disappear, it becomes very soft to be eaten... otherwise it is very tasty...

The black granite countertops contain tiny crystals which sparkle like the night sky.

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The crystals contained tiny pockets of liquid, and the team found that they could grow live colonies of archaeans from samples of it.

These tiny strips contain crystals that create an electric current when flexed — each time the heart expands and contracts.

In mammals, the inner ear contains tiny mineralized crystals called otoconia that help an animal stay upright.

In particular, they looked at samples that contained melt inclusions, tiny dots of molten magma that became trapped within crystals of olivine.

The scientists just mix silicon carbide crystals in water with tiny loops of genetic material containing the DNA to be inserted, and the plant cells that will receive it.

The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube — about the size of a large grain of sand — contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on - board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber.

If the high, partially obscuring clouds contain tiny hexagonal ice crystals, a halo will form around the sun or the moon.

To understand how water affects subduction of the oceanic plate, in which layers of different rock types sink into the mantle, the UO team studied hydrogen isotopes in water contained in tiny blobs of glass trapped in olivine crystals in basalt.