Sentences with phrase «of a human hair»

More than 300 of them could fit across the width of a human hair.

Its diameter is approximately 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

The material measures just one atomic layer, which is about one - thousand times thinner than a single strand of human hair.

Because it's made of human hair, you can treat it like real hair.

It's important to remember that acupuncture needles are the size of a human hair.

A new discovery about the structure of human hair is likely to change the way scientists and researchers, as well as the cosmetics industry, view and explore it in the future.

Lots of human hair shampoos can be too extreme for your dog's skin.

Many of these human hair care products are formulated to mimic the more acidic nature of the skin and scalp.

But what could you use if you wanted to create something really small — a structure less than the width of a human hair?

Its diameter is approximately ten thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

It is accurate to less than half the thickness of a human hair.

This is possible because the screen itself is made up of differently - colored tiny particles the size of a human hair.

These iron - rich minerals are far less than the width of human hair in size, but produce a strong magnetic signal that can be easily measured by modern magnetometers.

To detect frame dragging, researchers have to identify a 0.000011 - degree shift in the spin axis, which roughly equals the width of a human hair as viewed from a quarter mile away.

«It's like aiming a laser pointer continuously for two minutes at a dot the diameter of a human hair from 30 feet away while you're walking,» explained OPALS systems engineer Bogdan Oaida of JPL.

If only born - again Christians go to heaven, then the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony and the hands of angry God.

If only born - again Christians go to heaven, the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represents thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony at the hands of an angry God.

Measuring just 3 by 4 nanometres, around 20,000 of the cars could be parked on the tip of a human hair.

He also needed data representing a 100 percent human food diet, for which he turned to the Smithsonian Institution for samples of human hair from different periods over the past century.

«New structural features of human hair discovered.»

Electron Microscopy micrograph of human hair cross-section.

This study utilized four hair types, three of which were of Indian origin (straight, wavy, and curly), and one of which was untreated and provided by a producer of human hair wigs (DeMeo).

In wall reliefs, the artist taps into an anthropomorphic realm between the alien and familiar with unraveled and tufted shoelaces, indicative of the use of human hair in previous work.

This is the best of the human hair front lace wigs we found.

(That's an angle, the team's literature explains, the width of a human hair seen at a distance of a quarter mile.)

The link between fine particles, the diameter of which is smaller than a 30th of a human hair, and cardiopulmonary disease has been established for two decades, and the E.P.A. has regulated such emissions since 1997.

The group is studying how neurons respond to light by implanting fiber - optic threads the width of a human hair into the brains of lab mice.

Even among the safe - sounding natural ingredients you'll find things like fluid extracted from the anal glands of beavers (castoreum), crushed beetles, and derivatives of human hair or duck feathers.

Manning knows that the Broncos could beat the Bears next week with a bag full of human hair under center, so he's not really hurting the team by letting Osweiler get a warmup game.

The new frequency comb is the size of a human hair compared with traditional frequency combs that can be as large as an apartment refrigerator.

Untangle the Mystery of Human Hair!

A strand of DNA is only about one nanometer in size — not even close to the width of a human hair which is roughly equivalent to 100,000 DNA strands.

The solution, he said, was to use a reactive ion etching process to shave a tiny layer — just five microns thick, or about one - tenth of a human hair — from the diamond's surface.

The high refractive index of silicon makes optical structures the size of a fraction of the diameter of a human hair possible.

The source of new hair: For the first time, researchers have been able to take human dermal papilla cells (those inside the base of human hair follicles) and use them to create new hairs.

Also, the timing of human hair loss must be addressed, Dunbar says.

Background To understand how a hygrometer made with hair strands works, it is important to understand the structure of a shaft of human hair.

The material Professor Barber tested was almost 100 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair so the techniques used to break such a sample have only just been developed.

Microfluidics, the science of moving nanoliter - size drops of liquid through channels built on the scale of a cross section of a human hair, make it possible to automate the process of separating out biomarkers, analyzing and amplifying them, and then registering their presence.

Using a submicron X-ray beam and transmission electron microscopy, they were able to spatially resolve the local structure of the three main regions of human hair: medulla, cortex and cuticle.

«The method [of detection] was to weigh the air filters,» Perera says, «and these captured only the bigger particles, not the ones down to one or two micrometers [about one - fiftieth the width of a human hair].

The force created by the rocket is less than the weight of a human hair, but in the vacuum of space it is enough to push a small object forward with a constant acceleration.

Still image from video showing Shewanella bacteria roughly 1 / 50th the width of a human hair reaching out nanowires to breathe when deprived of oxygen.

Jifei Ou, a graduate student in media arts and sciences, says the work is inspired by hair - like structures in nature, which provide benefits such as warmth, in the case of human hair, and movement, in the case of cilia, which help remove dust from the lungs.