Sentences with phrase «microscopic magnetic particles»
Now comes word of another moonshot project from the company's Google X division: an ingestible disease - detecting pill containing thousands of microscopic magnetic particles that course through a person's bloodstream in search of malignant cells, according to the Associated Press.
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In a series of papers, Firestone and his colleagues claimed various kinds of evidence for the hypothesis, including deposits of the element iridium (rare on Earth but abundant in meteorites), microscopic diamonds (called nanodiamonds), and magnetic particles in deposits at sites supposedly dated to about 12,800 years ago.
Because neutrons are microscopic magnets that carry no charge, they can be used to interact with and excite other magnetic particles in the system without compromising the integrity of the material's atomic structure.
The magnetite particles are thought to act like microscopic compass needles, relaying information to the nervous system by straining or twisting receptors in cells as they attempt to align with the Earth's magnetic field.