Sentences with phrase «microscopic pieces»

This means the virus can travel long distances and remain ineffective for up to two weeks traveling on microscopic pieces of dust and debris.

In trying to understand how comets, asteroids, and planets were built from microscopic pieces of dust whirling around the protoplanetary disk, modelers have a problem they call the «aggregation barrier.»

16 Although they don't easily biodegrade, some plastics «photodegrade»: Sunlight can break up the molecular bonds in the polymers, turning the material brittle and causing it to break into small, often microscopic pieces.

Over a thousand years ago, Mesopotamian artisans stumbled on a new way to add a special sheen to their ceramics: using microscopic pieces of metal.

In addition to the issue that plastic gets broken down into microscopic pieces, plastic pollution is especially hard to confine because it travels easily and quickly with the ocean currents.

His inventive works range in size from monumental kinetic and sound - producing sculptures to almost microscopic pieces created from such unassuming materials as fingernail clippings and eggshells.

A study examining how the plastic waste is torn apart by ocean life has uncovered some eye - popping evidence, finding that a single plastic bag is literally broken into millions of microscopic pieces before being spread throughout the seas.

Basically, plastic can only disintegrate if it is exposed to UV rays which break its structural bonds apart — and even when this happens, it never truly goes away, it just becomes tons of microscopic pieces of plastic.

I've developed the early symptoms of an allergic reaction when I'm in a room where other people are eating pecans just from breathing in the microscopic pieces hovering in the air.

Slime, putty, play - doh, anything with 100 microscopic pieces — NO.

«These microscopic pieces never fully disintegrate and in certain areas outcompete plankton as a non-nutrient food source in our world's oceans.»

More phytoliths, hard, microscopic pieces of silica made by plant cells, were found at higher ground level, suggesting rice began to play a larger role in the diet of people who lived in the area — and more was farmed — as time went on.

The gusty winds that accompany thunderstorms stir up mold and fungal spores, and rainwater breaks up pollen grains into hundreds of microscopic pieces, both of which spell trouble for asthmatics.

Former lovers who were both lured to grisly deaths on dating apps: American is murdered in kidnap plot after his boyfriend was shot to death by teens on These are external links and will open in a new window The claim: Seafood lovers could be eating up to 11,000 microscopic pieces of plastic a

Given that climate research has a microscopic piece of this hypothetical climate pie, it's unrealistic to believe that climate researchers would be willing to prostitute their own research for so little when there is so much more money available in the fossil fuel industries.