Sentences with phrase «out of oxygen long»

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Very large animals have more «fast twitch» muscle fibers needed during a sprint and can in theory accelerate for longer periods, but those tissues soon run out of oxygen and thus reach max performance long before supermassive creatures ever reach their theoretical maximum speed.

We know that bacterial cells have different ways of metabolizing energy in oxygen - rich environments, but for the longest time we couldn't figure out how they were doing it when oxygen is difficult to access.»

Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh, an engineer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and his colleagues built plastic capsules about 2.5 centimeters long — about as long as a Jolly Rancher hard candy — that sniff out carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen gas molecules in the gut.

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

A decrease in temperature means that the hydrogen and oxygen atoms of the water no longer have enough energy to bounce out of the six - sided pattern they naturally nestle into.

Because lower - intensity exercises have greater access to oxygen, fats, carbohydrates and even proteins for synthesising ATP for fuel, it can produce practically unlimited energy for long periods of time — just not very quickly, meaning sprinting is out.

The generation of ATP energy by the aerobic energy system can be continued as long as oxygen is available to your muscles and your food energy supplies don't run out.

What to make, then, of Secretary Duncan's widely heralded concession that testing is «sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools» and his offer to states of a year - long delay in making test scores part of their evaluation systems?

Sometimes in these situations a dog which has some heart defect may get so excited that the heart no longer efficiently pumps blood around the body and the brain gets starved of an adequate oxygen supply for a short period of time causing him to pass out; after passing out the excitement disappears immediately and the heart resumes pumping blood normally.

All Young Again kibble is packaged in tough foil bags that seal in the freshness and keep out moisture and oxygen for a long shelf life of 18 months.

He went without oxygen for a long time before intubation, and the doctors did not hold out much hope of survival, and if he did survive, they thought there would be brain damage.