Sentences with phrase «like outer surface»

Ostensibly, these organisms were very thin, lacked any minerallized hard parts or well developed organs or organ systems, and had a quilt - like outer surface.

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Their cores may be fluid, but their outer surfaces are solid and extremely tough — making graphene, the strongest material on Earth, look like tissue paper by comparison.

The fossils, discovered by a team including researchers from the University of Leicester, show two species of marine worms with other, smaller worm - like animals attached to the outer surface of their body.

On the other hand, some animals notably most frogs, do not possess an outer ear like humans, but a middle ear with an eardrum located directly on the surface of the head.

The volume is the amount of space an object fills in three - dimensional space (which tells approximately how much a container, like a juice box, can hold), and the surface area is the total amount of area on the outer surface of the object (which tells approximately how much material was used to create the shape).

Dr Michele Bannister said: «We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well - baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system, has a greyish / red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.

For this, electrical signals fire between neurons connected by «axons» — thread - like extensions of their outer surfaces which can be viewed as the «wire» in the electric circuit.

It's made from overlapping strips of flexible material, layered somewhat like feathers or fish scales, allowing for the pieces to move across each other as the wing flexes, while still providing a smooth outer surface.

And like those transporters, the protein was shaped like a tube and wedged in the outer surface of the cells, resembling the kind of biological valve that would move chloride in and out.

The researchers created a hybrid compound from 2 molecules: LLP2A, a protein - like molecule that sticks to α4β1 integrins, and alendronate, an osteoporosis drug that sticks to the outer surface of bones.

[30] Medium - sized, low mass stars like the Sun have a core region that is stable against convection, with a convection zone near the surface that mixes the outer layers.

Like the other greenhouse gases, ozone blocks heat from the Earth's surface and prevents it from escaping into outer space.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

It would be easy to write off Buscemi's maiden effort as a serendipitous fluke, but just like that squirrely face of his, you know that surface values are merely the outer layer.

It had to be aerodynamically sound and as tightly packaged as possible around the occupants and the mechanical architecture giving it a shrink wrapped - like outer skin surface.

Adult fleas, like other insects, are covered with a chitinous outer shell that is in turn covered with a waxy surface.

Cats possess retractable claws and shed the outer layer by scratching on rough surfaces, however their nail tips can become very sharp causing damage to rugs, furniture and human flesh, therefore trimming their nails may help to blunt those sickle - like claws.

Previous subspecies, like the red, yellow, and blue varieties, are joined by rock Pikmin (whose hard outer shells make them ideal for cracking particularly tough surfaces), and pink flying Pikmin, which don't enter until far later in the game, but have the delightful distinction of being able to simply fly past most major obstacles (though definitely not all).

Tina Maria Nielsen's exhibition, Skin of Mine, deals with surfaces, membranes and the interface between outer and inner, like human skin.

Much of this IR is at wavelengths at which other atmospheric constituents do not interact, so if CO2 is exposed to a warmer surface like the earth, it will absorb radiation that would otherwise pass through into the cold of space AND likewise if CO2 is exposed to the cool of outer space it will emit vast quantities of IR at wavelengths which other gases can not emit.

Now we realize that the outer part of our new smaller sphere must also absorb and radiate like a blackbody... and so on, all the way to the surface.

Ian Now we realize that the outer part of our new smaller sphere must also absorb and radiate like a blackbody... and so on, all the way to the surface.

On the outer surface, it does seem like it but unlike loans, you do not have to repay this kind of debt when the case ends as unsuccessful.

The wireless charging S - flip cover that was unveiled has leather like finish on the outer surface of it.