Not exact matches
* Most common laundry detergents contain «optical brighteners» - tiny
particles that
stick to the
surface of your clothes, giving the effect of brighter colors.
Optical Brighteners: These are actually tiny
particles that
stick to the
surface of your clothes after washing.
Until now, geckos were thought
to be able
to stick to surfaces using van der Waals forces, the weak attraction resulting from the temporary movement of charged
particles within a molecule.
Particles could be
stuck to a three - dimensional brane, sort of like things could be
stuck to the two - dimensional
surface of a shower curtain in our three - dimensional space.
Open strings are anchored
to the
surface of a brane, so the
particles associated with them are
stuck on the brane.
«With only charged
particles in the model, the magnetic fields were
stuck, and couldn't rise
to the
surface.
If you landed in a region with lots of
particles, they would
stick to any metal
surface very efficiently, and they would stay there for a long time.
However, there are certain
particles that get
stuck on the
surface of the teeth or even on the gums which have
to be softened first before these can be removed by brushing.
The act of a
particle being attracted
to a
surface, making contact with it, and then
sticking to it, is called plating out.
So, if they come close enough
to each other, the negatively - charged
particle will land on and
stick to the positively - charged
surface (just like male and female squirrels).