Sentences with phrase «electrical current through»

Electrocution can be defined as conduction of electrical current through a person's body causing injury...

This is nothing more than passing an electrical current through the water.

The artist has created a specialised technical system that will transmit an electrical current through speakers and light - emitting diodes (LEDs)

Making their debut in Strange Attractor, Haroon Mirza's Cosmos (2016) and Supernova (2016) were created through a process of placing live peyote (Lophophora williamsii) on blank PCBs (material usually used to make circuit boards) and running electrical current through them.

They found that by running a small electrical current through seawater, a hard shell of calcium carbonate would form on the cathode.

He found that by passing an electrical current through seawater, the salty water electolyzes causing calcium carbonate to to combine with magnesium.

Researchers found running electrical current through someone's head helps — but it isn't the most practical solution.

Because they send an electrical current through your body, the amount of water you are carrying can drastically adjust this number too.

Ionic foot baths operate by sending an electrical current through a tub of water, which causes the water molecules to divide and create negative oxygen ions.

These work by sending a small, harmless electrical current through the body to detect fat and lean tissue.

In addition, Kessler is partnering with the University of Louisville to investigate epidural stimulation, in which a chip is implanted to deliver an electrical current through the spine to trigger walking.

Gallium arsenide is a technologically important narrow - band - gap semiconductor, in which the excitation of electrons from the valence into the conduction band produces charge carriers that can transport electrical current through electronics components.

This can trigger different brainwaves by passing a small electrical current through the skull.

Nevertheless, so far no one has been able to demonstrate reliably and quantitatively the flow of electrical current through long DNA molecules.

In the new experiments, the physicists used magnetic resonance to reverse the nuclear spins in hydrogen isotopes embedded in the OLED, and then were able to detect how the reversed spins caused a change in the electrical current through the OLED.

Conventionally such chemical sensors use only the change in the electrical current through the device or a change in the resistance of the device active channel.

An electrolyzer works by running an electrical current through water that splits it into oxygen and hydrogen.

Widely used by doctors and physical therapists to control pain and stimulate healing by passing electrical current through affected areas, the devices cost thousands of dollars and can be tricky to use, but Rahimi experienced immediate, lasting relief the first time he used it.

In a small study of healthy twentysomethings the scientists showed they could make neurons more or less excitable by sending weak electrical currents through the brain's motor cortex.

Using electrophysiological methods to measure electrical currents through cell membranes, the research group at the Institute for Physiology and Pharmacology, led by Marjan Slak Rupnik, showed that dextromethorphan extends the periods of electrical activity in beta cells.

An experimental treatment that sends electrical currents through the spinal cord has improved «invisible» yet debilitating side effects for a B.C. man with a spinal cord injury.

He has currently done some chiropractic adjustments to get me aligned properly and has me working on the ARP trainer, which is a type of machine that sends electrical currents through your shut - off muscles in order to get them to function properly.

Those sensors send electrical currents through your skin, similar to an electrocardiogram, and are thought to be more accurate than the optical sensors that have become standard in fitness bands, such as the Fitbit Charge 2.

Not exact matches

However, implanting them can further damage hearing, and electrical currents can spread easily through the neural tissue to stimulate nearby cells, which the patient hears as noise.

If the sight of the current between the prongs and the loud electrical sound don't scare away an attacker, you can simply touch them with it and send a jolt through his or her body.

Electrical currents travel through an animal more or less effectively depending on its outer layer.

In electrolysis, electrical current flows through a metallic electrode immersed in water.

The electrical current can also be channeled to form hydrogen gas through the addition of electric power from a small photovoltaic cell that absorbs the excess light.

In «A researcher reveals the shocking truth about electric eels» (SN: 10/14/17, p. 4), Mariah Quintanilla reported on a biologist who recorded the electrical current traveling through his own arm during an electric eel's attack.

They found that when a negative electrical potential is applied to skin on various parts of the arm, creating a current, that stretch of skin exhibits a low resistance to a subsequent current flowing through the skin.

Another component senses changes in the electrical current flowing through the generated sweat, which measures alcohol levels and sends them to the user's cell phone.»

As the name implies, the technique involves electrical currents flowing through electrodes in random pulses, activating neurons in multiple brain areas.

The tether changes its orbit thanks to an electrical current flowing through the wires, which creates an electromagnetic field that attracts the debris and pushes the net away from Earth's geomagnetic field.

Chua's equations suggested that a memristor's electrical resistance, or conductivity, would not be constant, like a lightbulb's, but dynamic, and determined by the history of the current that had flowed through the device.

The electrical current then busts apart the CO2 molecules through a process called electrolysis, and the carbon atoms swarm to the negatively charged electrode.

Electrical current is injected into the device, tunnelling from single - layer graphene, through few - layer boron nitride acting as a tunnel barrier, and into the mono - or bi-layer TMD material, such as tungsten diselenide (WSe2), where electrons recombine with holes to emit single photons.

An organic light - emitting diode, or OLED, glows orange when electrical current flows through it.

Nanopores are miniscule holes (often as small as a few billionths of a meter) that measure a change in electrical current as molecules pass through them.

Above a certain critical temperature, the electrons can move relatively easily through the material enabling the flow of electrical current.

In this painless treatment, low - level current is passed through two electrodes placed over the head to tweak the electrical activity in specific areas of the brain.

While such a device is called a plasma cutter, it is really an electrical arc cutter (or welder), as the plasma actually acts as a conductor to let an electrical current flow through it.

When energized by electrical current, the bonded layer produces light that travels through channels in the silicon to a «modulator» that flickers the light tens of billions of times per second.

Memristors are electrical components that limit or regulate the flow of electrical current in a circuit and can remember the amount of charge that was flowing through it and retain the data, even when the power is turned off.

When the powerful electrical currents running through the LHC came to bear on that tiny piece of solder, the resulting heat set off a cascade of events, ending in a sudden release of helium that blew aside several of the collider's massive superconducting magnets.

In a performance check, the scientists measured the amount of electrical current running through the films in low and high magnetic fields.

Large geomagnetic storms can cause unwanted currents to flow through electrical power grids.

Such studies could guide still - experimental therapies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which aims to suppress or boost brain activity in targeted areas through electrical currents.

Then they pulsed electrical current — similar to the current in a brain — through each slice and measured the strength of the electrical signal in the synapses.

The most vital components of cognition, Freeman believes, are the electrical and magnetic fields, generated by synaptic currents, that constantly ripple through the brain.

Batteries generate electrical current when ions pass from the negative terminal, or anode, to the positive terminal, or cathode, through an electrolyte.