Sentences with phrase «finer than human hairs»

He specializes in microsurgery, reconnecting nerves and blood vessels finer than human hairs, performing meticulous 12 - hour procedures with no breaks.

Spiders are superb artisans, weaving ethereal webs from silk finer than human hair.

These modified thylakoids are then immobilized on a specially designed backing of carbon nanotubes, cylindrical structures that are nearly 50,000 times finer than a human hair.

With a diameter of 14 - 19 microns, strands of pashmina are said to be six times finer than human hair.

Gizmag reports on how these amazing photovoltaic fibers were made, «The origin of the solar - power fiber lies in earlier research by the team, on merging optical fibers with microchips by using high - pressure chemistry to deposit semi-conductors into tiny holes in optical fibers that are finer than a human hair.

They've introduced new four new microfiber towels designed to stem the flood of paper towels into the waste stream; each microfiber is finer than a human hair and is sliced 16 times, resulting in millions of microscopic hooks in each cloth to capture dirt, dust and even six times their weight in water.

Not exact matches

Fine particulate pollution is a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets, many times smaller than a human hair.

«That means things that are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, like cells, parts of cells or the fine structure of fibers.»

The sulfuric acid condensed into minute droplets — each two hundred times finer than the width of a human hair — that could easily remain suspended in the air as an aerosol cloud.

At each visit, they inserted a fine wire electrode, no thicker than a human hair, into two muscles around one of each of the volunteers» knees.

The link between fine particles, the diameter of which is smaller than a 30th of a human hair, and cardiopulmonary disease has been established for two decades, and the E.P.A. has regulated such emissions since 1997.