Sentences with phrase «grew along the surface»

In contrast, droplets on an absorbent surface crystallized into ice that grew along that surface, making it more difficult to remove.

However, skepticism arose and a study last year posited the microbodies weren't melanosomes, but microbes that grew along the surface of feathers in continuous layers.

Not exact matches

Fairén says there is growing evidence that the harsh environment on the martian surface — a combination of frigid temperatures, caustic chemicals and deadly cosmic radiation — would kill Earth's microbes quickly, especially in the limited numbers that ride along with robots.

He and other researchers were working on growing and making devices out of topological insulators, a type of material that doesn't conduct current through the bulk of the material but can carry current along its surface.

A truth that floated to the surface during the BP energy company's Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, along with hundreds of millions of liters of oil, is that the world does not have a ready replacement for conventional forms of fuel such as crude oil and likely will not have one for some time, particularly as demand for energy grows worldwide.

Production increases noticeably from the mid-1980s to present day: Visible in the pictures are the tailing ponds holding contaminated water and material from the extraction process, along with surface stripping.So, in light of the near - certain death of the Keystone XL pipeline, will Canada's tar sand production continue to grow in the coming years?

But the team's study suggests that a surface's contact angle — the angle formed where a water droplet meets a solid surface — determines whether ice will grow along or off the surface.

The joints continue to develop normally as long as full congruity is maintained between the acetabulum and the femoral head... The acetabular rims are stimulated to grow by mild traction applied by the joint capsule and gluteal muscles attached along their dorsal borders, and from pressure by the femoral heads upon the articular surfaces... The morphologic characteristics of the complex hip structure show that biomechanical behavior is the prime influence in the growth of this joint.»