Sentences with phrase «microscopic grains»

They were surprised to find it was already full of dust — microscopic grains of most probably silicon, carbon, and aluminum.

The directional information is stored in microscopic grains inside magnetite - a naturally occurring magnetic iron oxide.

We're used to thinking of the space between the stars as void, bereft of all but the most sparsely distributed atoms and molecules, or the occasional microscopic grain of silicon or carbon dust.

Among the myriad microscopic grains collected by Cassini, a special three dozen stand out from the crowd.

Bacteria beneath films of liquid water only several molecules thick have been found clinging to microscopic grains of clay in ice cores from Greenland.

Microscopic grains inside magnetite are capable of storing information about the planet's magnetic field, including the direction and intensity, from the time the minerals cooled and solidified.

This year, though, a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed an approach that uses a regular laser - sintering printer to control the microscopic grain structure of the metal.

This suggests a way that very small samples (a few tens of microscopic grains) can reveal big information about the pathways and effects of long - distance airborne dust.

The radio astronomers were searching for free - floating gas molecules in space, but nebulas also contain dust, microscopic grains of carbon and silicon.

The first paper, published this week in the journal Nature, relates to microscopic grains of rock detected by Cassini in the Saturn system.

Enlarged one million times, the microscopic grains were translated into stainless steel sculptures fabricated by workers in Nanjing.