Sentences with phrase «on a solid surface by»

Scientists in the last 20 years have learned to control the movement of liquid droplets on a solid surface by breaking the wetting symmetry that results from the impact of a droplet on a surface.

Liquavista is based on Electrowetting, which modifies the surface tension of liquids on a solid surface by using a voltage.

Not exact matches

In 2011, Clean Harbors acquired Peak Energy Services, bringing on the capabilities to service oil and gas drilling operations by providing surface rentals and specialized liquid, solid and sludge processing.

On Pluto, a slurry of nitrogen and water ice melted by subsurface heat stands in for lava, the team suggests, freezing solid once it is exposed at the surface.

Their cores may be fluid, but their outer surfaces are solid and extremely tough — making graphene, the strongest material on Earth, look like tissue paper by comparison.

We live on the planet's cold surface, but Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed, split, wrinkled and ruptured by the roiling of warmer layers beneath it.

Recently, the same group of physicists showed that the percentage of space occupied by solids for a unit - area surface can indeed significantly affect liquid droplets» sliding behaviour on surfaces with micro-pillar structures.

This conclusion was experimentally validated by actively sliding a water droplet on solid surfaces with micro-holes and micro-pillars of various sizes while simultaneously measuring the resultant sliding friction forces.

Its drain on the earth's resources is enormous: it claims 70 percent of all freshwater taken by our species and more than 40 percent of the planet's solid surface (nearly all the arable land), with attendant casualties in biodiversity.

«By employing a layer system on a solid surface, in combination with a photo - hinge, the complex dynamics of a real glycocalyx can be reduced to the principal processes and thus be better understood», explains Terfort.

The researchers progressed this setup through a multi-year series of iterations before landing on their new design, which upends the traditional method by probing the solid surface from the aqueous side.

While other species detected in space are formed by gas - phase chemistry alone, or by a combination of both gas and solid - phase generation, methanol is a complex organic compound which is formed solely in the ice phase via surface reactions on dust grains.

The paper also shows that planet c likely has a solid rock surface, and could have eruptions of silicate magmas on its surface driven by tidal heating, similar to Jupiter's moon Io.

But I suspect that NASA wanted to launch the probe as fast as possible, because Pluto had already passed perhelion in its orbit, and by each passing year the atmosphere was beginning to freeze over, and it wouldn't be long unti it was all frozen solid on Pluto's surface and any observations wouldn't have any meaning by then.

A study titled «The influence of wind resistance in running and walking and the mechanical efficiency of work against horizontal or vertical forces,» by LG Pugh, has shown that there is an increased energy cost of running on a solid surface, as opposed to on a treadmill, due to air resistance.

On smoother surfaces the Alfa's chassis reveals solid grip levels, helped no doubt by its tyres, and braking is solid despite the pedal needing a fair stab to initiate stopping.

However, by needing to plug in a mouse, I also need a solid surface to use it on which makes a laptop a little less portable for me than it might be for others.

Sore hocks can be prevented by providing a solid surface, such as wood, on one - third of the cage floor.

Overall a solid gameplay experience with an alright story made richer by its willingness to scratch the surface on the horrors of slavery adding an easy but important emotional connection to the game.

The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.

The surprise of seeing water presented this way is transformative and disorienting — the solid appearance of the steel is softened by the ripples of light that bounce off the pools on the shelves, and the U-shaped supports no longer seem to hold the shelves up, instead they appear to float down the length of the sculpture as their reflections catch on the surface of the water.

Using a combination of materials to finish his big photographic portraits, all dominated by eggs that are either perfectly whole or split open to expose their solid yolks, he opens on their surfaces a strong trompe l'oeil effect.

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

The anthropogenic influence on atmospheric CO2 is about as solid as science gets, supported by multiple lines of evidence — simple accounting, ocean acidification, ocean CO2 increasing at the surface (by Salby it would have to be decreasing), decreasing atmospheric O2, isotopic balances, etc..

High - power, solid - state lasers that operate in mid-infrared «atmospheric windows» can be used by pointer - trackers to disable the heat seeking mechanism employed on surface - to - air missiles, thus safeguarding soldiers in battlefield situations.