Sentences with phrase «tiny particles on»

Not your mama's vacuum, this smart hands - free model deep cleans on its own, picking up tiny particles on any surface.

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

Not exact matches

To get to the big picture of the whole universe, these theories have to consider what is known about particles on the tiniest scale.

After thirteen years of daily Mass and wide reading, this was the first I had heard of the traditional understanding of the Church: that not even a tiny particle of the sacred Host should be accidentally stepped on or brushed away.

It is written on the canvas of the endless universe, as well as in the tiniest particle of the matter human eye have ever seen.

She said the reason jalapeños are spicy, and differently spicy than most other chiles, is because there are tiny particles within the jalapeño that cause very tiny lacerations on the tongue and inside of the mouth when eaten.

Plastic particles found in bottled water David Shukman BBC Science editor CLICK HERE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43388870 Tests on major brands of bottled water (including Nestlé and Danone) have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic.

Even children who don't chew on paint chips can get lead into their system if there's lead - based paint in or around their home or another building they spend time in: Doors and window frames covered with lead paint release tiny particles of lead dust into the air every time they're opened or closed.

The «sprayer» used to spray poo into the toilet is splashing tiny little particles of fecal matter into the air on toothbrushes, floor, etc and with a little one crawling around everywhere and putting everything into their mouths, it is HIGHLY unsanitary.

Make real nano - particles and explore physics on a tiny scale.

Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects similar or even more problematic than in our oceans.

The researchers placed a droplet containing mixtures of a viscous fluid and bacteria on a slide and dropped a tiny particle of nickel onto the droplet.

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world — neutrons, electrons, photons — either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scale.

To create a SLIPS - like coating, the researchers corral a collection of tiny spherical particles of polystyrene, the main ingredient of Styrofoam, on a flat glass surface, like a collection of Ping - Pong balls.

Anticipating a proliferation of nanoproducts, researchers hope to get a leg up on the potential dangers of the tiny particles spreading into the environment, where their minute size might let them enter and damage living tissue.

«Tiny particles have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation: Amazon rainforest provides a unique natural lab to study effects of aerosols.»

Tiny particles of silver — potent anti-microbial agents that can kill bacteria on contact — are becoming increasingly popular in consumer goods, including washing machines, refrigerators, clothing and toys.

Now, Arnold and his team at NYU Tandon's MicroParticle PhotoPhysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics (MP3L) are the first to find a way to determine the density of charges on an area of a WGM micro-bead's surface, as well as the charge of an ensnared nanoparticle or virus, by measuring how light frequency fluctuates as the tiny particle follows its wobbly course around the sphere.

The yellow region of the flame contains tiny carbon particles that are deposited on the metal surface.

The tiniest weights are measured using nanotubes, which vibrate at different frequencies depending on the mass of the particles or molecules on them.

On September 13 and 14, Cassini took a last look around the Saturn system's greatest hits, taking a color mosaic image of Saturn and the rings, a movie sequence of Enceladus setting behind Saturn, Titan and tiny moonlets in the rings that pull the icy ring particles around themselves to form features called propellers.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

On their own, aerosol particles are tiny; when a cloud droplet becomes a rain droplet, it grows by a factor of a million as droplets crash and coalesce together.

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

Whether my buckle is beeping or not, my über - suit thus far offers no protection against the tiniest assassins of all: High - energy radioactivity such as beta particles and gamma rays can zip through most clothing to wreak havoc on cellular DNA.

Esposito's model, which draws on work by former graduate students Joshua Colwell, Robin Canup, and John Barbara, takes into account tiny moonlets within the rings that have enough of a gravitational attraction to hold on to the particles, keeping them in the system.

This theory states that all subatomic particles are different vibrations or notes on a tiny string or membrane.

The tiny particles inside the glue on their laboratory slides turned out to be primarily made up of arabinogalactan proteins.

New research from The Ohio State University illuminates the tiny particles responsible for ivy's ability to latch on so tight to trees and buildings that it can withstand hurricanes and tornadoes.

Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids.

The best models for the region suggested that if there were ring particles in the area where Cassini crossed the ring plane, they would be tiny, on the scale of smoke particles.

Their tests with transmission electron microscopy on the nanocrystals, which form as ultrathin films, plates and tiny particles, reveal the desired quality and uniformity.

One high - profile target, he says, should be reducing emissions of tiny soot particles, known as black carbon, that don't last long in the atmosphere but have an outsize impact on warming.

Tiny particles in these frozen clouds provide surfaces on which the critical chemical reactions take place that destroy ozone.

The long - sought Higgs boson particle seems finally to have been found at an accelerator in Geneva, and scientists are now hot on the trail of another tiny piece of the universe, this one tied to a new fundamental force of nature.

They then filled them with tiny polystyrene beads in a soap solution to mimic dirt particles on a fabric that has gone through a wash.

Urine that it vented also left a residue when tiny particles hit the craft's panels, so Lorenz suggests that future missions to Enceladus could look for signatures of life if similar residue is found in the minuscule dents left on a detector by ice grains from the plumes.

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.

Tiny particles in the air can cause genetic mutations in the sperm of mice that are passed on to their offspring, according to a report in the 14 May issue of Science.

The researchers suspended quantum dots — nanometer - sized particles of semiconductors — in a liquid and painted the suspension on the inside of a tiny glass tube.

To calculate the amount of fuel inside Earth by 2025, the researchers will rely on detecting some of the tiniest subatomic particles known to science — geoneutrinos.

It is theorized that the process may be similar to what happens on comets, when water vapor lifts tiny particles of dust and ice off the surface.

To understand the huge explosion that results, you have to know what's going on with the star's tiniest particles.

During ISDAC, they collected an unprecedented level of data and detailed observations on Arctic clouds and aerosols, those tiny particles in the atmosphere that act as seeds for cloud droplets and ice crystals.

He spent months poring over old studies to see how these tiny, pure - silicate particles form on Earth.

A research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Beijing Normal University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that increases in air pollution's tiny particles in the atmosphere have a strong influence on cloud development, which affects weather and climate.

Join them to learn how their work helps develop tools and strategies that impact our everyday lives, from the tiniest particles to complex brain functions and societal impacts on our health.

Dean Toste, left, of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, and Elad Gross, right, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led a study of site - specific chemical reactivity on tiny platinum and gold particles at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

This activity is in all likelihood going on right now, Hsu said — over time, these tiny grains should glom together into larger and larger particles, and because they haven't yet, they must have been recently expelled from Enceladus, within the last few months or few years at most.