Sentences with phrase «many tiny pores»

Bamboo charcoal - as moso bamboo plants mature (taking 5 years), tiny pores are created that absorb allow it to act as a deodorizer.

Microfiber holds liquid in tiny pores inside the fibers of the fabric.

The carbon is then treated with chemicals to etch in the tiny pores.

Simulations (colored images) of this process showed the formation of tiny pores, which was in agreement with the structure (grayscale image) observed in a scanning electron microscope.

«It's moving through the tiny pores between the sand grains and it gets smeared, like grease on a tie.»

The final product, a black carbon powder, has a very high surface area due to the presence of many tiny pores that have been chemically etched on the surface of the microspheres.

But some of it also enters the stomata, or tiny pores, on the leaves and is drawn down through the branches to the roots.

The body consists of three vaselike openings, the walls perforated by tiny pores — just like modern sponges, which pump water through the holes to filter out food.

The temperature increase triggered a chemical transformation within the sediment, pushing water out of the mineral crystals and into tiny pores between the grains.

Since then scientists have figured out how to drive DNA through proteins with tiny pores embedded in a film using an electrical charge.

And they open tiny pores in their leaves to allow carbon dioxide in for photosynthesis.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that they can continuously read the chemical letters of DNA as it travels through a tiny pore, paving the way for a new kind of sequencing machine that decodes DNA much like an announcer reading a ticker tape.

So Ke Cheng, Hu Zhang, Jinying Zhang and colleagues wanted to see whether placing stem cells in inexpensive hydrogels with designed tiny pores that are made in the laboratory would work.

Activated carbon captures contaminants in tiny pores all over its surface.

Guided by the trapped particle, they then created a tiny pore in the cell membrane using an ultra-short laser pulse from a femtosecond laser.

The reason goes back to the tiny pores, called stomata, which exist on leaves and needles and are the channels through which trees absorb CO2 and cool off through evaporation.

According to a report in this week's issue of Current Biology, tiny pores in the outer membranes of two species of bacteria secrete a stream of slime that propels them forward.

Tiny pores in the charcoal, along with changes in its chemistry, provide more surfaces for nutrients to adhere to, which in turn encourages microorganisms to colonize the soil.

The xylem's tiny pores can trap bubbles, preventing them from spreading in the wood.

Between the nanowires are tiny pores that act like capillaries to absorb liquid — again, like a paper towel.

It's not just the size of pores that matters, but the surface structure and surface chemistry, since natural gas interacts with the outer edges of each tiny pore in the rock.

Anyone awed by towering redwoods should offer thanks to stomata, the tiny pores on the leaves of all trees and other vascular plants.

One group of cells had a planar interface between perovskite and ETL, whereas in the other one a mesoporous interface was built up, intermingling perovskite and metal oxide to form a sponge like structure that contains a huge number of extremely tiny pores.

As a result, the stressed trees close their stomata, or the tiny pores that take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and release oxygen as a byproduct.

The fluids react with relatively acidic seawater to produce mineral structures full of tiny pores, where hydrogen and carbon dioxide come together to form simple molecules.

Like a type of door, sodium channels allow sodium ions to flow into nerve cells through tiny pores.

Plants have tiny pores on their leaves called stomata — Greek for mouths — through which they take in carbon dioxide from the air and from which water evaporates.

The next step was to soak the plants in that solution and pressurize them, which causes the particles to enter the leaves through tiny pores called stomata.

How can long DNA filaments, which have convoluted and highly knotted structure, manage to pass through the tiny pores of biological systems?

Results: Neither smooth nor disordered, gamma - alumina nanoparticles are corrugated with tiny pores inside, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

To create more efficient catalysts, sensing and separation membrane, and energy storage devices, scientists often start with particles containing tiny pore channels.

You see, plants have these tiny pores on the undersides of their leaves called stomata.

Minerals, such as the silica in volcanic ash, seep into the tree and fill in tiny pores in wood's cells.

When rainwater is introduced to this kind of rock, either seeping in through tiny pores in the rock surface, or, more typically, dribbling in through larger cracks, the rock will begin to dissolve.

In these rock units the challenge is not «finding» the reservoir; the challenge is recovering the gas from very tiny pore spaces in a low - permeability rock unit.

Most importantly for the generation of steam, the foam is also riddled with tiny pores that allow water — through capillary action from applied heat — to make its way up through the material.

The nanopore technique begins with a voltage passed across a tiny pore in a membrane.

It doesn't neutralize toxins, but rather binds them to the many tiny pores on its surface.

When thawed the ice melts and leaves tiny pores in the tofu.

Homogenization: This is the process whereby the fat particles of cream are strained through tiny pores under great pressure.

This process removes the oxygen and activates it with gases leaving behind a highly adsorbent material with millions of tiny pores.

This moisturizer from Philosophy makes fighting acne and banishing excess dead skin as easy as slathering on a bit of cream — tiny pores guaranteed.

It will hide you're all tiny pores and make your skin soft and smooth.

Everyone wants to have beautiful skin, tiny pores, and no blemishes.

Health authorities, such as AIDS.gov and the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare, recommend non-microwavable Saran Wrap, because microwave - safe Saran Wrap has tiny pores to let out steam — which might also let viruses and bacteria through.

Not exact matches

It felt really greasy and I was worried it might clog my pores but after using a VERY tiny amount, it felt much less greasy.

I noticed it helps to only use a tiny dab and massage it in after washing the face with warm water (to open up the pores).

A face can be rendered in high resolution, with ultra-realistic details, down to single pores and tiny impurities; but this does not mean that it looks realistic.

«The pore spaces, or tiny holes, in the rock remain filled with these ancient oceans, so when we drill wells today that water is produced to the surface,» Tinker says.

«The pores allow the MOFs to work like tiny sponges that can soak up chemicals such as pharmaceuticals and gases,» said Sanghamitra Deb, a postdoctoral researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I.