Sentences with phrase «like oil droplets»
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What's left are more like ponds, or puddles, or even droplets clustered in solid rock, and the capital cost and time frame to extract oil from them have soared.
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The team found that frequencies near 200 kilohertz were best for tracking small oil droplets like those in the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Rafts made from dust - like particles have carried water droplets across a sea of oil, without the water dribbling out.
Although the toadstools are slightly omniphobic on their own, making it possible to knock droplets of water or oil around them like marbles with ease required adding a surface coating to enhance the effect.
Martin Hanczyc has previously reported that oil droplets display a life - like moving behavior and may be a simple chemical predecessor to biological life.
FUS proteins can change back and forth from small liquid droplets (resembling oil droplets in water) to small gels (like jelly) inside nerve cells.
Inside the nucleus, they act like droplets of vinegar in oil, that is, whenever they get close together, they fuse and sink.
The boundaries are formed instead by a liquid - liquid phase separation, a bit like droplets of oil floating in salad dressing.
They found that heterochromatic droplets fused together just like two drops of oil surrounded by water.
It's a liquid filled with micelles, cleansing droplets that attract, trap and lift dirt, oil and makeup like a magnet.