Sentences with phrase «describes organic molecules»

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Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science describes a sort of organic unity within the universe in which atoms become molecules, molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve into more complex life forms, etc..

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

To build their transistor, Jan Hendrik Schn of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and colleagues, who describe their findings in the current issue of the journal Nature, allowed many thousands of organic molecules to assemble themselves onto a gold film like bristles on a brush.

In a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology, physicists and chemists of the University of Münster (Germany) describe an experimental approach to visualising structures of organic molecules with exceptional resolution.

In her paper, Millstone describes using small organic molecules to «glue» an alloy in place, so that the two components stay mixed.

«As more and more fragments join up, they build progressively bigger and more carbon - rich, complicated molecules until they are so complex that we don't even try to give them chemical names, just describe them with generic terms like «organic molecules» or «tholins,»» Grundy said.

The term «organic» was originally coined to describe molecules associated with living organisms.