When babies are born weeks or months before their due date, their lungs are not fully formed or able to make
enough surfactant — a shielding, liquid coating.
«Liquid instillation has been used for providing lung surfactant to the entire lungs in premature infants that can not produce
enough surfactant to breathe normally,» Kim observes.
If there is
enough surfactant, water would retain the shape of droplets in oil, and vice versa.
Naturally produced between week twenty - four and week thirty - five of pregnancy, most babies will have more than
enough surfactant to breathe optimally.
(Babies born too early often have a hard time breathing because these cells either haven't fully developed or can't produce
enough surfactant.)
But it also sounds to me like you didn't have
enough surfactant in that vinaigrette.
They often cause problems (rashes), they don't have
enough surfactants, are harsh with high pH caustic soda ash or borax causing premature fabric wear and dirt redeposits on fabrics.
Not exact matches
When there comes a time to give birth, the baby has
enough of the
surfactant.
Enough oil and
surfactant comes down the world's rivers and by other means to coat the entire ocean surface with a smoothing layer every two weeks.
Enough oil and
surfactant comes down the world's rivers to coat the oceans every four weeks.