Sentences with phrase «suspended as particles»

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In nature, these phenomena often occur in particles that are suspended in a medium — referred to as colloidal particles — such as proteins, DNA and RNA.

As particles collide with molecules of a liquid or gas in which they are suspended, they experience jittery random movements called Brownian motion.

Having the electrode in the form of tiny suspended particles instead of consolidated slabs greatly reduces the path length for charged particles as they move through the material — a property known as «tortuosity.»

Witten says that by suspending gold particles in a drop, researchers may be able to fashion tiny micron - thick wires as the liquid dries.

The results estimate that lifelong exposure to 100 micrograms of «total suspended particulates,» or TSPs, (minuscule solid particles floating in the air, such as pollutants) per meter of air cubed will shorten a person's life by three years, on average.

That device, known as a suspended microchannel resonator (SMR), measures particles» masses as they flow through a narrow channel.

The fine particles suspended in the fog ranged as much as seven times beyond the concentration that India considers safe, to reach a level the United States Environmental Protection Agency calls «hazardous».

The eruption also produced erratic weather and spectacular sunsets throughout the world for many months afterwards, as a result of sunlight reflected from suspended dust particles ejected by the volcano high into Earth's atmosphere.

Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, consisting of (in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.

In nature, these phenomena often occur in particles that are suspended in a medium - referred to as colloidal particles - such as proteins, DNA and RNA.

Silver protein products generally have very large silver particles, so large that they would not remain suspended as colloidal particles without protein additives.

What you are doing very effectively is cleaning the tap water to a very high level indeed, right down to the finest of particles such as sand, suspended metals, dirt, etc..

silver protein - Also know as «mild silver protein», is a combination of metallic silver particles suspended in a protein solution.

Silver protein based products use gelatin as an additive to keep large silver particles suspended that would otherwise fall to the bottom.

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In this system, damping is provided by electrorheological fluid whose viscosity changes millisecond by millisecond as a magnetic field affects the magnetic particles suspended in it.

Created as an active matrix electrophoretic (the technique of using an electric field to create images by rearranging particles suspended in a solution) display, the prototype produced by the University of Cambridge Graphene Centre and UK firm Plastic Logic, is similar to the screens used in e-readers.

Mechanical filtration occurs when waste and debris suspended in the water are removed by passing them over materials that capture small particles (such as synthetic foam or nylon fiber floss).

What I like for visualization purposes is to think of greenhouse agents (gases or other) as acting like macroscopic particles — for ease of reference, let's say Ping - pong balls — suspended in the air.

nevertheless, both states can coexist for a wide range of environmental conditions.5, 7 Aerosols, liquid or solid particles suspended in the atmosphere, serve as Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and therefore affect the concentration of activated cloud droplets.8 Changes in droplet concentration affect key cloud properties such as the time it takes for the onset of significant collision and coalescence between droplets, a process critical for rain formation.»

Aerosols, liquid or solid particles suspended in the atmosphere, serve as Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and therefore affect the concentration of activated cloud droplets.8 Changes in droplet concentration affect key cloud properties such as the time it takes for the onset of significant collision and coalescence between droplets, a process critical for rain formation.»

Real Climate defines «aerosols» as ``... solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, consisting of (in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.»

Greenhouse gases — like carbon dioxide — trap heat and warm the planet, while fine particles suspended in droplets, known collectively as aerosols, usually cool the planet by reflecting the sun's energy away.

The role of aerosols, defined as minute particles suspended in the atmosphere, is one example.