Sentences with phrase «tiny particles»

Its dust tail is made of tiny particles of matter.

A prototype device developed by an international team of engineers can sift exceedingly tiny particles from blood samples without having to send samples off to a lab.

Your brake fluid can become contaminated by tiny particles of O - rings breaking down over time and can cause your brakes to no longer function as effectively.

Once in the air, gases emitted by forests react with other atmospheric chemicals to form tiny particles.

All are filling the atmosphere with dust and tiny particles known as aerosols.

Using tiny particles of carbon and a material found in shrimp shells, she developed a material that could be used to better treat wounds.

Such clouds contain aerosols — tiny particles suspended in the air that are known to create a general cooling effect that could mitigate global warming.

When tiny particles that aren't supposed to slip through your gut wall do, an immune reaction results and among its havoc includes — you guessed it — inflammation.

This suggests that the phenomenon resembles the activity at the surface of a comet, with water vapor lifting tiny particles of dust and residual ice.

As if flea bite allergies and food allergies weren't enough, tiny particles found in the dog's environment can also create significant problems.

Rain and snow often require tiny particles floating in the cloud to trigger ice to form, and not just any particle will do.

This is possible because the screen itself is made up of differently - colored tiny particles the size of a human hair.

Very likely, there would have been even more warming in the past 60 years if it were not for these human - made and natural tiny particles.

The exhaust from the gas - powered equipment sends tiny particles into the air, quickly creating unhealthy conditions.

Tiny particles called aerosols would have to be pumped high into the atmosphere (higher than where jet planes fly).

Tiny particles of silver — potent antimicrobial agents that can kill bacteria on contact — are becoming increasingly popular in consumer goods.

And it's filled with tiny particles known as PM2.5, which can lodge inside lungs, trigger coughing, worsen diseases like asthma, and lead to long - term damage including cancer.

Some vets recommend the use of hydrolyzed food, which contain protein that has been broken down into tiny particles which do not trigger and allergic reaction in dogs.

Constructed in a twill weave in a dark blue color, it also contains tiny particles of lapis lazuli.

A new study on the use of fuels in Ghana's capital shows that the poor are locked out of clean fuel use - so suffering from increased pollution from tiny particles in cooking smoke.

When snow forms, it crystallizes around tiny particles in the atmosphere, which fall to the ground with the snow.

The second scientific instrument carried aboard Glory is designed to measure how tiny particles called aerosols influence Earth's climate.

In fact, between 15 % and 31 % of marine plastic pollution could be from tiny particles released by households and businesses, rather than larger plastic items that degrade once they reach the sea.

Slamming into even tiny particles from the rings could have damaged the spacecraft.

A Mercedes - Benz exclusive, MAGIC SKY CONTROL turns the Panoramic roof transparent by electrically aligning tiny particles within its special glass overhead panel.

The key new finding by this team was to combine two existing techniques: making very tiny particles of iron oxide, and attaching certain molecules (called surface ligands) to the outsides of these particles to optimize their characteristics.

Jiwen Fan, PNNL atmospheric scientist, led the study showing how tiny particles fuel large storms in the Amazon.

Other scientists have considered injecting tiny particles known as aerosols into the stratosphere, the region above the troposphere, as a way to cool the planet, Science magazine reported.

Why not use sound waves to coax filters with big pores into catching tiny particles, asked chemical engineer Donald Feke and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

«Breaking down metal oxide into tiny particles increases its surface area and exposes lots of ultra-small, interconnected grain boundaries that become active sites for the water - splitting catalytic reaction,» Cui said.

In fact, other researchers have already shown the key phenomena of quantum theory emerge from a generalization of probability theory that could, too, have been in principle devised in the 18th century, before there was any inkling that tiny particles behave this way.

For years he has been studying the behaviour of tiny particles on metal - oxide surfaces together with Professor Ulrike Diebold (both TU Vienna).

«First global antineutrino emission map highlights Earth's energy budget: Tiny particles reveal information about Earth's geologic past and human - made radioactivity.»

• Gold nanogap electrodes trap tiny particles (Oct 2016) • Thermophoresis assembles plasmonic nanoparticles (Sep 2016)

With PNNL's climate model, Smith created more than 1,400 potential scenarios to reflect the many possibilities surrounding aerosols, tiny particles including soot that float in the atmosphere.

Scientists are examining whether tiny particles drifting over the U.S. from Asia are shading North America

American and Chinese scientists are examining whether tiny particles drifting over the U.S. from Asia are shading North America, helping to cool parts of Earth as the globe warms.

Over the past decade, scientists have linked soot and other tiny particles produced by combustion to heart attacks, asthma, and lung cancer, spurring a clampdown on fine particle pollution by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Physicists have been able to manipulate tiny particles over miniscule distances by using lasers for years.

New research has uncovered a technique whereby tiny particles mimic the form and function of the body's pancreatic cells, an approach that is showing promise in halting the onset of type 1 diabetes.

In Quantum physics tiny particles are created out of nothing (its a known, observable fact) 7.

In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).

But while scientists have shown that blasting tiny particles into the...

Optical Brighteners: These are actually tiny particles that stick to the surface of your clothes after washing.

Large chunks of the comet will miss us, but solar radiation will push tiny particles — about the size of those in wood smoke — to Earth.

Various studies suggest the vapors from e-cigarettes contain several cancer - causing substances, as well as incredibly tiny particles of tin, chromium, nickel and other heavy metals, which, in large enough concentrations, can damage the lungs.

Smoke wafting into a cloud provides countless tiny particles upon which water vapor can condense.

By guiding tiny particles around themselves, small moons embedded in Saturn's rings create the propeller - like features seen here.