It can transfer kinetic energy to another molecule though, and through random collisions
a small number of the molecules will reach the necessary energy to radiate.
For
small numbers of molecules, temperature is no longer strictly proportional to the average kinetic energy.
Not exact matches
The apparent gap between nonliving and living has now been bridged by nucleic acids, a class
of polymeric organic
molecules composed
of a succession
of small units (nucleotides)
of four sorts, the order
of which determines an indefinitely large
number of different specificities.
Curd from milk heated to a high temperature will not release whey as ordinary cheese curd does, due to the
smaller number of casein bridges within and between the casein
molecules.
«Most
of what we are all doing with liquid biopsies is dealing with very
small numbers [
of molecules], so using a poor sample extraction or nonoptimized kit can really get rid
of a lot
of the signal,» she says.
When newly hatched majors were injected with
molecules that increased the
number of small chemical groups attached to their DNA's protein scaffolding, they behaved like minors.
Usually, in
small -
molecule junctions, electrons «pushed» through the junction by the applied bias make the leap continuously, from one electrode into the other, so that the
number of electrons on the
molecule at each instant
of time is not well - defined.
Taking their cue from nature, where structurally well - defined biopolymers are the norm, e.g. in DNA and genes where slight variations to the order
of a
small number of organic
molecules gives rise to the diverse spectrum
of life, they have developed a self - sorting strategy that regulates the order
molecules take when forming long chain polymers.
As the microbes metabolize food, they produce an astonishing
number of small molecules, chemicals and hormones that circulate in a host and can influence health in an animal.
«We look for activity
of our
molecules in phase 2, and on numerous occasions we generate statistically significant data with relatively
small numbers of patients, which gives us reasonable confidence that the program will be successful in phase 3 with a larger group
of patients.
In the study, researchers used the blood
of seven people who survived Ebola Bundibugyo virus infection during the 2007 outbreak in Uganda to isolate a large
number of B cells that produce antibodies, which are the
small protein
molecules capable
of inactivating the virus.
The group synthesized a
number of small molecules and screened them for their ability to counteract the toxin.
«Work continues to identify the other factors, including
small molecules, necessary to not only promote the maturation and survival
of the newly generated hair cells, but also increase their
number,» Zuo said.
A quick glance at any history
of small -
molecule crystallography would have warned them: There used to be departments
of crystallography in a
number of American universities; now there are none.
Hu and his collaborator Juan R. Del Valle at the University
of South Florida are developing novel
small molecule inhibitors against IRE - 1 to combat cancers associated with high
numbers of MDSCs.
Chemists at Novartis involved in the previous phase
of the program discovered a
number of small -
molecule modulators
of the GABAB receptor.
Functional Genomics The platform provides access to automated high - throughput laboratory equipment handling very a large
number of samples for RNA interference, cDNA expression and
small molecule screening.
«We are presently testing a
number of biological and
small molecule inhibitors
of Notch3,» he said.
Vescor, advised by its scientific founders White and Kimmelman, whose research has shown inhibition
of autophagy can dramatically impact tumor growth in pre-clinical models, will develop
small molecule inhibitors
of a
number of protein targets at critical nodes
of the autophagy cascade, perform investigational new drug (IND) enabling studies, and move these into clinical development.
Most
of these
molecules contain a
small number of atoms, and only a few
molecules with eight or more atoms have been found in interstellar clouds.
Dr. King points out that a
number of oral drug candidates inhibit PKC - delta and that it may be possible to suppress PKC - delta production with microRNAs (
small RNA
molecules that help to regulate protein generation).
A
number of different strategies are being pursued, including
small -
molecule drugs and antisense therapies, all with the same goal in mind: to therapeutically boost the levels
of full - length SMN protein.
Any group
of carbohydrates consisting
of a
small number of simple sugar
molecules; most commercial prebiotics are oligosaccharides.
Beyond eye cream, I think they are perhaps the
number one product that every woman must use since they are generally made up
of smaller molecules that can penetrate deeply into the skin and deliver a higher concentration
of active ingredients than regular cream moisturizers.
Ok, don't see where you gave where any
of the
numbers are coming from but it suffices you seem sure the radiation pressure from added GHG
molecules (H2O or CO2), let's say 10 per million is so infinitesimally
small that the lift
of the atmosphere in every cubic meter per one meter layer up to say 80 km is so insignificant it can be totally ignored.
As I read it, it says there will be a lapse rate that's
small for large
numbers of molecules but stll finite and non-zero so long as the
number of molecules is not infinite.
Since the «nonphysical» part
of the derivation is that
small puzzle where the
number of water
molecules can exceed the «limits» imposed by RH, the paper would be meaningless anyway:)
That results in higher density and heavier air which must then fall.The same
number of molecules in a
smaller space.
So to argue for the insignificance
of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its
small mass and
number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path
of photons between interactions with air
molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.
You say it irradiates the light energy back toward Earth (and by the way it's light not heat), but the probably
of that happening is extremely
small because the
numbers you cite suggest it will transfer that light energy as heat to neighboring
molecules before it irradiates.
If, to take a very simple example, there were two
molecules of ink and 14
molecules of water, in a 4 x 4 array, there are 16 x 15 / 2 = 120 different arrangements
of the ink, only a
small number of which have the two ink
molecules adjacent.
The
number of liquid drops is many orders
of magnitude
smaller than the
number of gas
molecules that have condensed into those drops.