Sentences with phrase «micrometers which»

«Carbon dioxide absorbs in the atmospheric «window» from 7 to 14 micrometers which transmits thermal radiation emitted by the earth's surface and lower atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Its granules are no bigger than 8 μm (micrometers), which does not come near the sizes of wheat, potato or tapioca starches.

Stereocilia are extremely small, less than a half a micrometer in diameter, which is about the wavelength of a visible light.

According to their study in The ISME Journal this alga lives in symbiosis within a unicellular organism, a ciliate, which measures around a hundred micrometers and makes a calcareous shell.

In this week's Science Vukusic and his colleagues report that the bug's five - micrometer - thick scales were whiter than a child's baby tooth, which is encased in a millimeter - thick layer of white enamel.

Because they feared that their second AFM pass would damage these lines if they used it to locate them directly, they also put in cross-shaped alignment marks, which sit 2 micrometers on either side of the lines.

In another twist, most (but not all) of the PAH in the Hypatia matrix has been transformed into diamonds smaller than one micrometer, which are thought to have been formed in the shock of impact with the Earth's atmosphere or surface.

With a diameter in the region of a micrometer and a genome incorporating more than 1,100 genes, these giant viruses, which infect amoebas of the Acanthamoeba genus, had already largely encroached on areas previously thought to be the exclusive domain of bacteria.

The 10 - micrometer - wide microbe has a small eyespot, which Deisseroth describes as «kind of cute,» that spins around to detect light.

Xiao used battery powered aerosol monitors to measure indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter, or particles 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, which consists mainly of black carbon and organic carbon.

That's the lesson one researcher is taking away from a microscopic analysis of the fairy wasp (Megaphragma mymaripenne), which at a mere 200 micrometers in length is one of the world's smallest animals (shown compared to a paramecium and amoeba above).

Messenger took measurements of reflected light from Mercury's surface at wavelengths shorter than 1 micrometer, which revealed, among other things, that Mercury contains a surprising amount of sulfur and potassium (SN: 7/16/11, p. 12).

Tubes are typically three micrometers wide and look like those in modern volcanic rock, which are thought to be made by microbes that consume the rock's nutrients.

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

Scientists of the KIT and the ETH in Zurich developed a plasmonic MZM of only 12.5 micrometers length which converts digital electrical signals into optical signals at a rate of up to 108 gigabit per second, and presented this device in the «Nature Photonics» scientific journal.

The problem is that each «tree ring» - analogue is only a few micrometers across, which is why they are extremely challenging to analyse in detail,» says Dr. David Budd at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

The method developed in this research can be used to detect cesium carbonate particles at high resolution (micrometer - level) by using a fluorescent probe called «Cesium Green,» which also enables intracellular imaging of cesium distribution.

However, these algae, which measure only a few micrometers, have yet another amazing ability: they can «smell» stones.

That's because seawater chemically transforms the oil into a denser type of oil, which disperses into micrometer - sized droplets that are too heavy to float.

The wall thickness of the microtubes was kept below 10 micrometers, which helped proplatelets migrate through the walls and release platelets.

The company's first chips, he says, were made in a semiconductor fabrication facility from 1995, in which the smallest features that could be inscribed on chips were 0.35 micrometers across.

They then exposed these conjoined pairs to one - micrometer iron oxide flakes, which became magnetically adhered to the microsphere surfaces.

The Weizmann scientists built an electric trap in which two electrons are bound to two strontium ions that are cooled close to absolute zero and separated by 2 micrometers (millionths of a meter).

The scientists synthesized the sponges by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process during which the CNTs (multi-walled nanotubes with diameters in the range of 30 to 50nm and lengths of tens to hundreds of micrometers,) self - assembled into a porous, interconnected, three - dimensional framework.

Is radiation which mere micrometer penetrance at a complex ocean surface really equivilent to radiation which can support tropical kelp forests at 200ft depth?

However, the exact level of MRI contrast depends on precisely how the cells take up and store the iron particles on the micrometer scale, which can not be seen directly in the MRI images.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, Shapiro and his colleagues introduced a method to correlate magnetic field patterns in tissue, which occur on micrometer scales, with the larger, millimeter - scale features of MRI images.

Ultrafine dust particles refers to dust which is about 2.5 micrometers in diameter, nearly a 30th the thickness of human hair.

The dog stands in the tub of the unit, and the groomer rinses the dog for five to 15 minutes with the water, which has bubbles that measure three to 20 micrometers.

The key type of pollution driving the ban (no pun intended) is PM10 particles, which are each fewer than 10 micrometers in diameter.

Then there is particulate matter, especially the tiny particles with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers, which studies show can trigger asthma attacks.

The solar photovoltaic cell is only one micrometer thick, which is far thinner than a human hair, while most thin - film solar cells are between two and four micrometers thick.

It replaces color filters with micrometer (µm) scale LEDs, which are much smaller than current LEDs, and serve as their own source of light.