Sentences with phrase «tiny pores in»

When thawed the ice melts and leaves tiny pores in the tofu.

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.

Minerals, such as the silica in volcanic ash, seep into the tree and fill in tiny pores in wood's cells.

Tiny pores in the charcoal, along with changes in its chemistry, provide more surfaces for nutrients to adhere to, which in turn encourages microorganisms to colonize the soil.

According to a report in this week's issue of Current Biology, tiny pores in the outer membranes of two species of bacteria secrete a stream of slime that propels them forward.

And they open tiny pores in their leaves to allow carbon dioxide in for photosynthesis.

Guided by the trapped particle, they then created a tiny pore in the cell membrane using an ultra-short laser pulse from a femtosecond laser.

It's not just the size of pores that matters, but the surface structure and surface chemistry, since natural gas interacts with the outer edges of each tiny pore in the rock.

The nanopore technique begins with a voltage passed across a tiny pore in a membrane.

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I noticed it helps to only use a tiny dab and massage it in after washing the face with warm water (to open up the pores).

Microfiber holds liquid in tiny pores inside the fibers of the fabric.

The carbon is then treated with chemicals to etch in the tiny pores.

Simulations (colored images) of this process showed the formation of tiny pores, which was in agreement with the structure (grayscale image) observed in a scanning electron microscope.

A face can be rendered in high resolution, with ultra-realistic details, down to single pores and tiny impurities; but this does not mean that it looks realistic.

«The pore spaces, or tiny holes, in the rock remain filled with these ancient oceans, so when we drill wells today that water is produced to the surface,» Tinker says.

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.

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.

So Ke Cheng, Hu Zhang, Jinying Zhang and colleagues wanted to see whether placing stem cells in inexpensive hydrogels with designed tiny pores that are made in the laboratory would work.

Activated carbon captures contaminants in tiny pores all over its surface.

Then, about 80 million years ago, whendinosaurs were still walking around upstairs, the pore entries hadgotten too small for even the smallest bacteria to squeeze in or out.Onstott says the bacteria must have been trapped in their tiny tombssince that time.

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.

The xylem's tiny pores can trap bubbles, preventing them from spreading in the wood.

One group of cells had a planar interface between perovskite and ETL, whereas in the other one a mesoporous interface was built up, intermingling perovskite and metal oxide to form a sponge like structure that contains a huge number of extremely tiny pores.

As a result, the stressed trees close their stomata, or the tiny pores that take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and release oxygen as a byproduct.

By invigorating the mitochondria, SIRT3 and SIRT4 extend the life of cells, by preventing flagging mitochondria from developing tiny holes (or pores) in their membranes that allow proteins that trigger apoptosis, or cell death, to seep out into the rest of the cell.

Why the pores form is unclear, but a likely explanation, he says, is that the material contracts as it rearranges itself into small crystals, leaving tiny spaces in - between.

They used pieces of grocery plastic bags which were vaporized in a furnace to produce carbon layers that line the pores in the membrane to make the tiny cylinders (the carbon nanotubes).

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 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.

Sponges, the most primitive reef animals, house tiny fish in their cavernous tubes and vases as they draw seawater into their pores.

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.

Kodandaramaiah, Boyden and Forest set out to automate a 30 - year - old technique known as whole - cell patch clamping, which involves bringing a tiny hollow glass pipette in contact with the cell membrane of a neuron, then opening up a small pore in the membrane to record the electrical activity within the cell.

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The existing technique, which uses micro - or nano - pores to detect and separate particles, can only detect tiny volumes of material at a time in a single channel, limiting...» More...

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.