Sentences with phrase «silicone oil»

They used an iron - bearing liquid which they released in small drops at regular intervals at the centre of a dish of silicone oil.

Findings showed highly viscous fluids such as silicone oil limit the robot's maximum speed, while low - density media such as air limit how steep they can climb.

Using this new insight, the team decided to build their own «liquid wire»: a hybrid material made from droplets of silicone oil on a polyurethane thread.

The company tells Beth that it uses a locally - sourced lubricant made of 100 % medical - grade silicone oil to coat its condoms, and claims that some suppliers use lubricants mixed with other additives, including industrial - grade silicone.

The story goes that he concocted the viscoelastic compound by haphazardly mixing silicone oil and boric acid together.

The team will cut through the ice using a heated drill, with non-toxic silicone oil serving as the lubricating fluid.

Martin Jackson of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues filled a box with viscous silicone oil, representing a watery slush, and covered it with sand and small glass spheres.

When enough voltage is applied, silicone oil separates from a mixture and hovers along a pair of electrodes in a bead a few micrometers wide.

When given the option of drinking either water or a clear, tasteless, synthetic silicone oil, rodents lacking sour TRCs took longer to choose water, suggesting the cells help to distinguish water from other fluids.

Shown is a 39 nm sheet, radius 1.52 mm, and water drop in silicone oil floating on fluorinated oil.

8.15 PM Ali K. Tayyeba, MD: Management of End Stage Corneal Disease and Chronic Uveitic Hypotony by Combining the Boston Type 1 Keratoprosthesis with Pars Plana Vitrectomy and Silicone Oil Fill

The team achieved this feat by injecting threads of water into silicone oil — sculpting tubes made of one liquid within another liquid — enabling them to print threads of water between 10 microns and one millimeter in diameter, in a variety of spiraling and branching shapes up to several meters in length.

I follow this up with a sleave in primer and nickel sized amount of silicone oil before blow drying my hair with a ceramic boar bristle brush.

However, an uneven electric field neatly pulls the liquids apart at lower field strengths and a wider range of temperatures, physical chemist Ludwik Leibler and colleagues at the City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution (ESPCI) report in the 29 July issue of Nature.Using a pair of indium tin oxide electrodes painted onto a glass slide, the researchers separated a mixture of silicone oil and paraffin derived from shark liver oil.

General Electric engineer James Wright experimented until he came up with a combination of boric acid and silicone oil that resulted in a goo 25 percent bouncier than real rubber.

It is a silicone oil designed to be safe for nearly any air gun.

Two different model systems were studied: a polymer melt (silicone oil) and a molten (borosilicate) glass of comparable viscosity.

The silicone oil is more easily «polarized» and migrates toward the places where the field is strongest, displacing the paraffin.

They then submerged them in a mixture of silicone oil and water that they blasted with ultrasonic sound waves to generate micrometer - sized oil droplets.

The researchers dipped the strips in a bath of silicone oil, taking high - speed videos of the experiments, and then measured the amount of fluid that drained down as they pulled the strip back up.

The researchers then created a system to gather data when their pelts entered and moved through a liquid — in this case not water, but silicone oil, which makes it easier to see air bubbles.

The microbot was tested on a dry paper surface, and in both water and silicone oil to gauge and characterize its capabilities in fluid environments of varying viscosity.

When working with a silicone immersion objective, the difference between the refractive index of the samples and silicone oil is minimal, achieving brighter fluorescence images with higher SNR.

The refractive index of silicone oil (ne = 1.40) is close to that of living cells or cultured tissue slices (ne = 1.38), enabling super resolution imaging of internal cellular structures at tens of micrometers in depth with minimal spherical aberration.

Ilse Jacobsen recommends a silicone oil which should be dabbed onto a sponge and rubbed over the boots from time to time.

Within the resulting shallow containers, the artist has poured kinetic sand, a sculpting material and building toy, which is 98 % sand and 2 % silicone oil.