Sentences with phrase «increase surface area for»

The walls of the duodenum are highly convoluted to increase the surface area for absorption of nutrients.

By creating nanometre - thick arrays of metal - organic frameworks, Zhao's team was able to expose the pores and increase the surface area for electrical contact with the water.

I cut the chicken into slightly smaller pieces to increase surface area for the sauce, and therefore had just enough sauce for 1 1/2 lbs of chicken.

Customized particle morphology modified cellulose (CPM MC) is designed to hydrate faster in a coating system (for full functionality), with a controlled level of spherical particles and distribution of particles, leading to increased surface area for better / faster hydration and a smoother film.

To get them, boil the potatoes through before flattening them on a cast - iron pan with corned beef and red onions, increasing their surface area for maximum crispness.

Sure, you can use a knife... and I do, a lot of the time... but this little gadget makes heavy chopping for salads and soups almost fun, the pieces are in perfect little squares, which increases the surface area for more flavor, and also makes for beautiful presentations.

The inner wall of the small intestine is lined with epithelial tissue covered in wrinkles and folds from which villi — microscopic fingerlike pieces of tissue — project, increasing the surface area for absorption.

The reason temperature is relevant is that these grow over about 40 degrees F. Pre-cut salads have increased risk due to increased handling and increased surface area for oxidation, contamination exposure and bacterial growth.

This emulsification of fats increases the surface area for fat to be properly digested and absorbed.

The skin is made with recycled foam materials that can be flat - packed and then folded into various blossom - like forms that act like planters, also increasing the surface area for growing plants.

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Cutting the cubes into smaller pieces also increases the surface area of the beef, making more room for the other flavors.

Spatchcocking the chicken increases the surface area of the meat that's exposed so you don't need to cook it for as long!

Buttermilk Chicken with Peach - Tomato Salsa Whole Chicken Removing the backbone allows for more even cooking and increases the cooking surface area, so the overall time on the grill is nearly halved.»

If you toast them (a tradition that began apparently because leftover muffins became dry and tough and so were toasted to make them more palatable), and I think you should do this for flavor, open them with a fork rather than a knife which increases the surface area.

Villi are fingerlike projections that increase the intestine's surface area for nutrient absorption, Murray said.

Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario.

«Breaking down metal oxide into tiny particles increases its surface area and exposes lots of ultra-small, interconnected grain boundaries that become active sites for the water - splitting catalytic reaction,» Cui said.

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For example, by limiting the food source, the colony can be made to reorganise itself into long tendrils, increasing its surface area to find more nutrients.

«They tend to settle onto the cells representing the gastrointestinal tract and cause remodeling or loss of the microvilli, which are tiny projections on the surface of the intestinal absorptive cells that help to increase the surface area available for absorption,» said Mahler.

Furthermore, the amoebae extend farther on diluted nutrient sources, which increases the contact surface area and thus compensates for low nutrient concentration.

The main dangers associated with elemental mercury are that at standard conditions for temperature and pressure, mercury tends to oxidize forming mercury (II) oxide, and that if dropped or disturbed, mercury will form microscopic drops, increasing its surface area dramatically.

The study, which published today in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, is the first to link psoriasis severity to an increased risk of death using an objective measure of disease severity — called Body Surface Area (BSA)-- rather than treatment patterns, such as whether or not a patient was receiving oral, injectable or phototherapy treatment for the condition.

With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting more carbon dioxide into the air and creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.

The protrusions, which biologists call microvilli, increase the surface area of cells and have a role in absorbing nutrients, for instance.

Using a commercially available thermally activated shape - memory polymer substrate, this 3D texturing, or «crumpling,» allows for increased surface area and opens the doors to expanded capabilities for electronics and biomaterials.

As a general matter, yes, but AIUI the increasing height (depth) of the ice face is the key factor for accelerating retreat of these glaciers since it creates more surface area for the warm water to work on.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

It's usually not metabolism that increases but some for of increased energy expenditure / heat production, unconscious movement, thermogenesis, metabolically active tissue etc... metabolism is more closely linked to size and body surface area, usually decreasing with weight loss and hence body size...

When the exposed surface area of a vegetable makes direct contact with water that has been heated, there is an increased chance for loss of water - soluble nutrients into the water.

«BUILD Transportation grants will help communities revitalize their surface transportation systems while also increasing support for rural areas to ensure that every region of our country benefits,» said Secretary Elaine L. Chao.

Continental have constructed the ContiSportContact 5 with a supple «macro-block» design - this works to increases the total contact area between the tyre and road surface for added grip when cornering.

The sideskirts have also been further widened, a measure that has enlarged the overall surface area of the underbody — for another increase in downforce.

Will probably go back to 215/55 / -17 size next go around, as mileage dropped off more than expected for new tire d / t increased surface area.

Villi increase the surface area available for absorbing nutrients.

The success of this effort relies on new or improved processing techniques and materials for plastic electronics, including methods for (i) rubber stamping (microcontact printing) high - resolution (≈ 1 μm) circuits with low levels of defects and good registration over large areas, (ii) achieving low leakage with thin dielectrics deposited onto surfaces with relief, (iii) constructing high - performance organic transistors with bottom contact geometries, (iv) encapsulating these transistors, (v) depositing, in a repeatable way, organic semiconductors with uniform electrical characteristics over large areas, and (vi) low - temperature (≈ 100 °C) annealing to increase the on / off ratios of the transistors and to improve the uniformity of their characteristics.

Having these tiny fingers greatly increases the surface area available for the absorption of fluid and nutrients.

This increases the surface area of the tongue and allows for more evaporation to happen, which helps keep your dog cool.

For each additional guinea pig, increase the surface area by two square feet.

These extended periods of cloudiness are usually a consequence of a weak area of low pressure above the marine layer which increases its depth, making it more difficult for surface heating to evaporate the clouds within it.

While the rococo style design might seem to be more for aesthetics, it actually creates more surface area for the radiator, increasing the function.

The surface temperature increase that partially gave rise to concerns about global warming coincided with a move to tethered electronic measuring devices (um, I think that means thermometers) that forced the movement of many stations closer to buildings and developed areas, causing warming that may not have been corrected for.

«I think this study does a good job of pinning down the fact that the [Arctic sea] ice is disappearing for a whole bunch of reasons — and that is causing the surface of Greenland's melt area to increase,» Francis said.

«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»

Although access to some resources may be increased (for some) with increasing population size, there is one absolute resource which can not be increased — surface area.

Tropical land - surface precipitation measurements indicate that precipitation likely has increased by about 0.2 to 0.3 % / decade over the 20th century, but increases are not evident over the past few decades and the amount of tropical land (versus ocean) area for the latitudes 10 ° N to 10 ° S is relatively small.

For short term (ocean surface, existing biosphere) that is about 3 ppmv / °C, for longer term (including increasing biosphere area, changes in ocean currents) the ratio is about 8 ppmv / For short term (ocean surface, existing biosphere) that is about 3 ppmv / °C, for longer term (including increasing biosphere area, changes in ocean currents) the ratio is about 8 ppmv / for longer term (including increasing biosphere area, changes in ocean currents) the ratio is about 8 ppmv / °C.

Using an ocean circulation model for the shelf, the authors find that surface temperatures may increase by 0.5 to 2.0 °C, seasonal surface salinity may drop by up to 2 PSS in some areas, and that Haida Eddies will strengthen, as will the Vancouver Island Coastal Current and freshwater discharges into coastal waters.

You know, for a little while there I even thought that Bob T himself (who is undoubtedly an interesting fellow) might even be sharp enough to appreciate that the coupling of increased atmospheric CO2 and increased seawater N nutrient levels to produce enhanced cyanobacterial productivity in near surface layers of the oceans would also produce the weather - moderating effects listed above (particularly in the areas where tropical storms are «brewed»).

However a square metre is a miniscule portion of the surface of the planet so that even a tiny increase or decrease in the heat being received on average over each such tiny area translates into a huge change in total heat budget for the entire planet.