Sentences with phrase «microscopic holes in»

Industry practice and academic research suggest that one third of the CO2 pumped underground stays there — trapped in the same microscopic holes in the rock that once held the oil — and two thirds comes back up with the petroleum.

The team created microscopic wounds in the pupae's epithelial layer using a laser that can be focused down to a point small enough to punch microscopic holes in individual cells (less than a millionth of a meter).

Not exact matches

The scientists, an international team from the University of Bath, France, Germany, Holland, and the USA, deliberately introduced defects in titanium dioxide to form high concentrations of microscopic holes, and showed these can be reversibly occupied by magnesium and aluminium; which carry more than one electron per ion.

In 1996, Strominger and Vafa turned to string theory to provide a microscopic perspective on black holes.

Black holes vary enormously in size, from Goliaths with the mass of a million stars to the literally microscopic.

We're going into microscopic holes,» explains geologist Susan D. Hovorka of the University of Texas at Austin, who has worked on pilot projects in the U.S. «Add it up, and it's a large volume» of storage space.

Specifically, in this work he has applied geometric structures similar to those of a crystal or graphene layer, not typically used to describe black holes, since these geometries better match what happens inside a black hole: «Just as crystals have imperfections in their microscopic structure, the central region of a black hole can be interpreted as an anomaly in space - time, which requires new geometric elements in order to be able to describe them more precisely.

The patented technique uses microscopic crystals of silicon carbide to punch holes in plant cells so that foreign DNA can enter.

The paper by Giddings and Mangano and the LSAG report analyzed very conservatively the hypothetical case of stable microscopic black holes and concluded that even in this case there would be no conceivable danger.

Horse Chestnut reduces inflammation and tones up vein walls, plugs up minute holes and microscopic leaks in the tiniest blood vessels, reforces the strength of veins which promotes elasticity and prevents swelling and improves overall circulation.

Inflammatory foods cause leaky gut syndrome — that means microscopic holes develop in the wall of your intestines, allowing molecules to pass through and create an inflammatory response in your body.

With barely 2mm - small hole at its top, the work is at once a pot, but can also be grasped in the sense of an objet from the microscopic size of that hole.