Sentences with phrase «glass rods»

Twenty four months later, the study is still a mess, and we have 30 lbs of glass rods still sitting on the floor.

Nice... two years ago my girlfriend made this «amazing» find at a yard sale — a basket of glass rods.

Fero's figurative forms are the result of the manipulation of glass rods in a flame torch, alternately adding to and coiling the molten glass in sequential steps until the desired form takes shape.

A thin glass rod implanted in the amygdala collected light from active brain cells and served as the microscope's lens.

Prod a snail embryo with fine glass rods and you can make its shell coil in the opposite direction to normal.

It uses parabolic mirrors to capture sunlight and focus it on a small spot on a quartz glass rod.

By prodding embryos gently with glass rods at the eight - cell stage, they could reverse the genetically determined handedness of each snail.

Rather than using two lenses, Leeuwenhoek pulled hot glass rods to form threads and then reheated the threads to form small glass spheres.

Glass rods attached to the electrodes carry the sound wave to a transducer, which generates a voltage proportional to the sound's amplitude.

Lasers amplify light, masers amplify microwaves, and now, from France, comes the saser: a supercool glass rod that amplifies sound.

Although with the proper stimulation the same glass rod can amplify a variety of sounds — glass is made up of a jumble of silica molecules with a wide range of bonds, which can absorb and release phonons of many different frequencies — it can amplify just one frequency at a time.

«Besides that, we focus on the relationship between the structure and the mechanical properties of the entire glass rod», says Peter Fratzl.

The sponge lives on the bottom of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and forms an approximately one - centimetre - thick glass rod to attach itself to the ocean's floor.

Pressed glass beads are formed by pressing a heated glass rod into a mold.

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Fiber - optic cables consist of a bundle of hairlike glass rods through which information is transmitted by pulses of laser light.

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Brass glass pillar light with curved profiles made of 8mm - diameter solid glass rods.

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With Lanner looking on, the student injected one of each embryo's four cells with a genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR - Cas9 while holding the embryo in place with a thin glass rod.

By gently prodding snail embryos with fine glass rods, Japanese researchers were able to temporarily change the shell's direction of rotation.

I was on the other end of the driveway, inspecting something completely useful and practical, like a pile of 1983 Star Wars comics, so I didn't hear what she told my girlfriend, but next thing I know I'm $ 10 poorer and schlepping this 30 lb basket of glass rods to the car.

He had to stick the remainder to the end of a glass rod so it wouldn't get lost.

To understand this force, it is instructive to consider how small particles can be attracted to a positively charged object, such as a glass rod rubbed with cat's fur.

«We've demonstrated that these resonantly excited metal surfaces can produce a potential» — an effect very similar to rubbing a glass rod with a piece of fur: you deposit electrons on the glass rod.

Often creating layers of multiple coats, the artist covers his sheets with light sensitive chemicals using a variety of tools from sponges to brushes and glass rods.