Sentences with phrase «micrometers long»

The needles in the patch — each 800 micrometers long and thinner than a human hair — penetrate only the top layer of skin, making it painless.

In experiments led out of the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, scientists took these thin fibers that were just a few hundred micrometers long and twisted them until they began to coil.

White bar in lower right gives scale: It's 3 micrometers long.

At 1.5 micrometers long, it is comparable in size to a small bacterium.

This protozoan can be up to 200 micrometers long, making it the largest in the rumen.

They began with a a tiny mechanical paddle, or «quantum drum,» around 30 micrometers long that vibrates when set in motion at a particular range of frequencies.

The current publication presents an MZM only 12.5 micrometers long, which is roughly one tenth the thickness of a hair.

To use this motion - sensing technique in a practical device, Aksyuk and Roxworthy embedded the gold nanoparticle in a microscopic - scale mechanical structure — a vibrating cantilever, sort of a miniature diving board — that was a few micrometers long, made of silicon nitride.

But the crystal that Zhong and colleagues built is only about 10 micrometers long and 0.7 micrometers wide — about as wide as a bacterial cell.

Not exact matches

The team shined a 130 milliwatt beam of light on a 10 micrometer - long, wing - shaped piece of glass floating in water.

They then grouped the nanotubes into a cylinder - shaped forest, measuring about 50 micrometers tall and 1 millimeter wide, and centered the array within a 3 millimeter - wide, 7 - millimeter long microfluidic channel.

A pale beige polypropylene plastic embedded with 25 - micrometer particles of the resin is inserted into the tube in the form of a long - haired shag carpet sample and, almost immediately, CO2 levels inside the greenhouse begin a steady march downward as the resin binds CO2 to form bicarbonate, a kind of salt produced.

Assuming oil needs to be at least 1 micrometer thick to create a visible sheen, he explains, and assuming that an oil slick that thin has a 72 - hour lifespan at the surface, a leak of 14 gallons per day could only create a visible sheen 1.6 kilometers long by 91 meters wide.

In this study, the researchers, from Arizona State University, used a process known as chemical vapour deposition to create a 41 micrometer - long nanosheet made from Cadmium Sulphide and Cadmium Selenide powders, using silicon as a substrate.

The team managed to bend a laser beam 30 micrometers out of true by having it travel along a 3.5 - centimeter - long wire.

Because the blood in the 150 - micrometer - long embryonic heart is so viscous, the speed and turbulence of the blood causes the vessel walls to experience a high shear stress — like a skateboarder would experience upon falling and sliding across pavement.

The team of investigators dried a standard peptide solution for a day at room temperature to allow diphenylalanine to assemble into microtube structures, with individual tubes up to 1 millimeter long and 1 - 3 micrometer wide in diameter.

They have to neatly pack a several meter - long thread of genetic material into a nucleus that measures only five micrometers across.

Real - time, unprocessed video of standing waves of light in a 15 - micrometer - long, zero - index waveguide taken with an infrared camera.

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).

When it has all its receiver bands enabled, ALMA will capture radiation from space in longer wavelengths, from a few hundred micrometers to approximately 1 millimeter (close to one thousand times longer than visible light waves).

The micromotors are essentially six - micrometer - long tubes that help rapidly convert carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate, a solid mineral found in eggshells, the shells of various marine organisms, calcium supplements and cement.

Fossils vary in size from one micrometer bacteria to dinosaurs and trees, many meters long and weighing many tons.

But David Begun of the University of Toronto, and one of the world's leading palaeoanthropologists, told The Independent neither tooth had a resemblance Fossils vary in size from one micrometer bacteria to dinosaurs and trees, many meters long and weighing many tons.

... the long wave infrared radiation from the atmosphere has a lot to low energy (wavelength) one is not deeper than a fraction of a millimeter (10 micrometers).

For instance, when the long wave radiation from the upper few micrometers of the ocean is upward, the skin temperature is usually cooler than the bulk SST.Latent and sensible heat fluxes can cool the sea surface further if the air is dryer or colder.

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