Sentences with phrase «other microscopic particles»

When the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco tested the effluent of eight Bay Area wastewater treatment plants last year, they «found that 80 percent of the microplastics and other microscopic particles were fibers.»

Not exact matches

In 2010, German scientists discovered another useful function of corneal nipples: they help keep pollen grains, dust particles, and other microscopic crud out of the insects» eyes.

In most materials, including copper and other metals that conduct electricity, electrons navigate an obstacle course of microscopic outcroppings, ledges and other imperfections that obstruct the tiny particles and send them scattering in the wrong directions.

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.

Opposing theories — one drawing mostly on experimental evidence, the other on results of modeling studies — have been proposed to explain shear thickening in suspensions of microscopic particles, also called colloids.

In the case of molecules, the many microscopic collisions between the particles which constitute gases, fluids, and solids couple the various forms of motion with each other.

Microscopic specks of soot, dirt, acid, and other pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere in metropolitan areas (cars, factories, construction sites, etc.), and when these particles come into contact with your skin, they penetrate deep into the layers of the epidermis, causing inflammation, dehydration, and reactions on the cellular level.

The pollutant Wallenius and his team focused on, fine particulate matter, consists of microscopic particles of metal, carbon, sulfates, and other materials.

«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.»

Microscopic particles move in a random, zig - zag like pattern (because they collide with other molecules).

The microscopic skin particles that are cast off by dogs, cats, hamsters and other pets are known as dander, and can quickly spread throughout your home and cause allergic reactions for anyone who has a pet allergy.

Microscopic plastic particles like microfibers act like sponges in the ocean, soaking up other synthetic chemicals and organic pollutants.

The most important biological means of establishing Holocene climate involves palynology, the study of pollen, spores, and other microscopic organic particles.

Plastics linger for years polluting, collecting other pollutants on their surface and shedding microscopic particles, which are now found in many water systems and the food chain.

Suffice it to say here, that the until now publicly denied operations of ongoing Chemtrail Spraying are, in fact, related to «Solar Radiation Management,» consisting of the massive injection of a combination of metallic and other particles — microscopic in scale — into the stratosphere.

Hence all the work now going into designing «particulate traps» for the microscopic particles of carbon and other organic matter found in a diesel exhaust.