Sentences with phrase «through tiny pores»

Homogenization: This is the process whereby the fat particles of cream are strained through tiny pores under great pressure.

When rainwater is introduced to this kind of rock, either seeping in through tiny pores in the rock surface, or, more typically, dribbling in through larger cracks, the rock will begin to dissolve.

How can long DNA filaments, which have convoluted and highly knotted structure, manage to pass through the tiny pores of biological systems?

The next step was to soak the plants in that solution and pressurize them, which causes the particles to enter the leaves through tiny pores called stomata.

Like a type of door, sodium channels allow sodium ions to flow into nerve cells through tiny pores.

«It's moving through the tiny pores between the sand grains and it gets smeared, like grease on a tie.»

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that they can continuously read the chemical letters of DNA as it travels through a tiny pore, paving the way for a new kind of sequencing machine that decodes DNA much like an announcer reading a ticker tape.

Not exact matches

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

But some of it also enters the stomata, or tiny pores, on the leaves and is drawn down through the branches to the roots.

The body consists of three vaselike openings, the walls perforated by tiny pores — just like modern sponges, which pump water through the holes to filter out food.

Since then scientists have figured out how to drive DNA through proteins with tiny pores embedded in a film using an electrical charge.

When they added a few small drops of sunflower oil to the powder samples, they observed the liquid fat moving through pores and tiny spaces in the chocolate very quickly, most likely as a result of capillary action — the movement of a liquid within porous material due to the forces of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension.

The reason goes back to the tiny pores, called stomata, which exist on leaves and needles and are the channels through which trees absorb CO2 and cool off through evaporation.

Plants have tiny pores on their leaves called stomata — Greek for mouths — through which they take in carbon dioxide from the air and from which water evaporates.

The team then used a process it developed previously to create tiny, uniform pores in the material, small enough to allow only water to pass through.

Most importantly for the generation of steam, the foam is also riddled with tiny pores that allow water — through capillary action from applied heat — to make its way up through the material.

Health authorities, such as AIDS.gov and the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare, recommend non-microwavable Saran Wrap, because microwave - safe Saran Wrap has tiny pores to let out steam — which might also let viruses and bacteria through.

What it IS like: Imagine you are a medical student tiny and fast enough to squeeze through a pore, catch up and climb onto a blood platelet, and pass through amazing organs as you barrel your way along the blood stream!

If weather conditions are right, nature makes its own sweet wine when Botrytis cinerea, a natural mould, sends tiny root follicles through pores in the grape skin, sucking out water and shrivelling the grapes.