Sentences with phrase «microscopic particles from»

For decades, fierce winds have dislodged microscopic particles from the lakebed, creating carcinogenic dust storms.

Prather had spent 15 years developing a device that could suck in microscopic particles from the air and analyze their chemical composition in a few thousandths of a second.

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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.

There, floating debris — from microscopic particles of plastic to large pieces like ropes and fishing nets — is carried by currents and accumulates.

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

Prather's instrument — a tangle of metal tubes, wires, and airtight chambers nicknamed Shirley — tick - tick - ticks as its laser blasts apart hundreds of microscopic cloud particles, one by one, that are drawn in from the air outside.

After months of investigation, the team found the culprit: microscopic particles of debris from the pumps of the upgraded vacuum system.

In the model microscopic system developed by scientists from Bristol, Düsseldorf, Mainz, Princeton and Santa Barbara, a ring of colloidal particles are localised in optical tweezers and automatically translated on a circular path, transferring a rotational motion to an assembly of identical colloids confined to the interior region.

After successfully sweeping up the first particles ever captured from a stream of interstellar dust, the Stardust spacecraft today safely stored its microscopic treasures.

Pohlker, Andreae, and their colleagues ran the numbers and found that the amount of potassium particles released from microscopic fungi in the lab was indeed enough to account for the concentration of potassium they observed in their samples.

The microscopic particles sifting from freeways and power plants don't just harm your heart and lungs.

The sun is directly behind the planet — an alignment not visible from Earth — which allowed astronomers to discover two faint outer hoops, never before seen, and to observe in unprecedented detail the microscopic particles that make up the rings.

Sophisticated microscopic instruments were used to look for iron - containing nanoscale particles — specifically locating them from thousands of aerosol particles.

The device gathers data on how tracers — microscopic particles that can be pumped into and recovered from wells — move through deep rock formations that have been opened by hydraulic fracturing.

If mineral grains are somehow to form from a supernova, the gas / plasma debris from the supernova must first merge into microscopic particles.

The device gathers data on how tracers — microscopic particles that can be pumped into and recovered from wells — move through deep rock formations that have been opened by hydraulic fracturing [fracking].

«In addition to fungal and bacterial species, bed coverings contain all sorts of microscopic debris including pet dander, lint, soil, dust, dust mites and their droppings, various excrements from the body, skin cells, cosmetics, synthetic chemicals, and other particles.»

Homogenized / pasteurized commercial milk - homogenized milk fat is thought to be harmful to health due to the microscopic fat particles that are formed from the homogenization processing.

Microscopic live cell analyses of blood taken from individuals who have detoxed using food - grade diatomaceous earth for many months display little evidence that the particles make their way intact into the blood.

In healthy individuals not suffering from leaky gut syndrome, the small intestine contains microscopic pores that only allow nutrients to pass through to the bloodstream, but not toxins and large undigested food particles.

As any light hits the bamboo silica in this matte foundation formula, the microscopic particles will bounce light away from the face, resulting in a red - carpet - worthy filter for skin.

Micelles remove seen and unseen makeup, oil and impurities from your skin, down to microscopic pollution particles.

, but it is the foundation for this question itself: How do microscopic material properties (which are the basis for macroscopic properties) arise from quantum mechanical properties of fundamental particles and atoms?

These exhaust fumes of airplanes contain, apart from water and CO2, soot particles, microscopic aà «rosols and a host of chemical substances that don't belong in the higher regions of our troposphere.

Several proposals call for injecting microscopic particles, called aerosols, into the stratosphere, the quiet region of the atmosphere above the troposphere about 18 kilometers up from the equator.