Sentences with phrase «than surface tension»

When she removed the sides, the pins created a cube shape bound together by nothing more than surface tension: rather than holding fabric in place, the pins hold only themselves.

However, above 6 metres per second, the wind transfers more energy than surface tension can cope with.

Not exact matches

Boar bristle will absorb water, whereas badger will shed water; badger, however can hold more water than boar, likely because of surface tension and water's attraction to the greater quantity of the finer hairs in the badger brush.

I would imagine there is a lot more tension / hostility under the surface than we see, and the result has been a bad team with irregular effort, and ineffective strategy.

Rather than merging, their surface tension causes them to bounce off one another like beach balls (see video at https://www.nature.com/nature/newsvideo/nature08294-s5.mpg).

Oils such as pentane have a low surface tension — 15mN / m — so they sag under gravity and tend to form a flat pool rather than a spherical droplet, meeting the surface at a low angle.

As a result, the remaining liquid at the bottom of the bubble is warmer, and so has lower surface tension, than liquid at the top.

New surfaces are also able to move low surface tension liquids other than oil.

Rather than using the stresses caused by the temperature - dependent surface tension directly to pattern the film, the group's approach relies on the flow pattern in the thicker layer to deform the thinner film beneath.

The substance with higher surface tension pulls more strongly than the one with lower surface tension, pulling the flow of liquid toward it.

Surface tension is more than 10 times the weight of the RoboBee and three times its maximum lift.

Moreover, nowhere do the inherent tensions of progressivism, between the twin impulses of self - expression and self - abnegation, surface more clearly than in the case of critical pedagogy, which can be viewed as an offshoot of constructivism, which in turn is an offshoot of postmodernism.

In your new show at James Cohan Gallery, «Surface Tension,» color seems to play a more important role in your work than ever, and you have apparently shifted your focus from depicting abandoned homes — a recent series that you described as deliberately «mundane and ugly» — to taking on nature.

Surface Tension, on view in the gallery, consists of more than 350 glazed porcelain pinch pots on a narrow, 20 - foot glass shelf.

At the same time, rather than «muscl [ing] painting back into three dimensions» while underscoring it as a purely visual experience, where forms such as Held's geometries could deny gravity, Plimack - Mangold made paintings that alluded to the viewer's presence, as well as recognized the tension between the painting's surface and the subject's depth.

Fendrich is less interested in symmetry and a predictable balancing of form with color than in creating an unpredictable tension within the surface space.