Sentences with phrase «tiny volumes of»

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...

One of the scientists, a research associate named Hongjie Li, pipettes tiny volumes of solutions containing decades - old DNA into centrifuge tubes, while the other, PhD student Lu Yao, types information into a laptop.

The dandelion comes self - assembled, naturally grown, and its seeds are able to reliably and repeatedly pick up these tiny volumes of fluid that we need to transport in a lab setting.»

This is a tiny volume of the Milky Way Galaxy, yet contains the planets we are most likely to be able to characterize in the future — and the planets which mankind will be able to visit, if interstellar travel ever becomes a reality.

The new technique gave unprecedented three - dimensional image sharpness, avoiding damage to living cells and allowing substances such as neurotransmitters and calcium ions administered in an inactive form to be instantaneously activated in a tiny volume of tissue.

The entire structure loses mechanical strength despite the fact that only a tiny volume of ice on the surface changes temperature and thus its mechanical properties.

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The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.

But while automated trading accounts for about 75 percent of all financial market volume, just a tiny fraction of independent or amateur traders use them due to the complex technology, need for massive historical data and high costs.

That incident had involved six districts where McKesson had allegedly shipped excessive volumes of hydrocodone and other controlled substances to tiny mom - and - pop customers that filled orders for online pharmacies.

There's a growing volume of debris in orbit around the earth, commonly called space junk, that ranges from old spacecraft down to tiny flecks of paint.

And that's Bitcoin's fundamental challenge: as far as we can tell, the volume of Bitcoin - denominated transactions is tiny.

The total volume of cryptocurrencies outstanding today is under $ 400 billion, less than 1 / 20th of $ 9 trillion, and cryptocurrency purchases on outstanding bank card balances must be a very tiny fraction of that.

for example... you can go back in ice core samples as far as 800,000 years, and still locked in the ice is a tiny amount of the atmoshpere from that time, telliing us volumes of information.

And yet the flight to physics rather gives the game away, since measured any way you like — volume of papers, number of working researchers, total amount of funding — deductive, theory - building physics in the mold of Newton and Lagrange, Maxwell and Einstein, is a tiny fraction of modern science as a whole.

No matter how many times I do this, I'm always amazed at the sheer volume you can get out of two tiny little egg whites.

You could also just use half of one instead of whole — I used the tiny Indian green chili peppers which are smaller in volume.

Seemingly tiny acts of love can speak volumes to those on the receiving end of it.

There is that misconception with the term milk coming in where it's like well, your mature milk you know, which has you know, there's more volumes of it and it's you know, with sustains on older baby but when your baby is born, their stomach is tiny.

The Tiny Love projector baby mobile plays 30 minutes of sweet - sounding lullabies or white noise with adjustable volume that complement the projector soother's visual experience.

The approach he pursued used powerful magnets to pack a superheated gas, or plasma, into a volume so tiny that some of the gas atoms» nuclei would fuse together, resulting in a dramatic energy release.

This material is light and strong, made up of tiny, hollow spheres that don't change volume when the temperature spikes or drops, thus keeping the bow's behavior constant.

These waves are direct evidence that the currently observable universe expanded rapidly from a subatomic volume in the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Chloroplast DNA is separate from the genome DNA in the plant nucleus, and the large numbers of these tiny organelles in the cell allow huge volumes of the coagulation protein to accumulate in each tobacco leaf.

The odds of randomly picking a wine molecule from the ocean is tiny — about 10 - 21 — because the volume of the bottle is so small relative to the volume of the ocean.

Later, the flies» hearing was tested by playing a series of song pulses at a naturalistic volume, and measuring the physiological response by inserting tiny electrodes into their antennae.

Near the nanorods, light can be focused into tiny volumes, even below the wavelength of light in vacuum.

Newly described fossils (including a lower jaw, inset) suggest that Janjucetus, an early relative of modern whales that strain tiny crustaceans from large volumes of seawater, used suction feeding instead to grab indi

«Squeezed» in such a small volume, a tiny amount of incoming light is enough to cause a small change in the wavelength of the trapped light, because of the optical properties of the material from which the cavity is made.

One of the world's top particle accelerators has reached a milestone, achieving its «first turns» — circulating beams of particles for the first time — and opening a new window into the universe, a view that will give physicists access to a record rate of particle collisions in a tiny volume in space.

They pack the mass of an entire star (more massive than our sun) into their tiny volumes and possess intense magnetic fields.

Galaxies like our own Milky Way are embedded inside this web, but fill only a tiny fraction of its volume.

Found through the analysis of data from radio telescopes by astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), this tiny cluster of baby stars occupy a small volume only 10,000 AU across — meaning that they'd all easily fit within the confines of the boundaries of our solar system (yes, the Oort Cloud is the solar system's outermost boundary).

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

Even when the nose isn't (completely) sealed off, most people use the nose for moving only a tiny amount of their total gaseous exchange volume.

These tiny bottles sat on a lonely shelf in the back of the pharmacy, and we always made it a priority to check expiration dates on the bottles, as sometimes the medications would expire before we had a chance to dispense them, due to low prescription volume.

Mascara — If you are looking for amped up volume in your lashes, dust a tiny amount of translucent powder on your lashes between each coat of mascara.

Roller Lash achieves a ton of volume with the tiniest bristles shaped at a slant.

Smooth in a tiny amount of volume inject mousse through your mane to add body and grip to your strands, and tousle your tresses ever so slightly for a fuller - looking finish.

Work a tiny amount of Advanced Hairstyle BOOST IT Volume Inject Mousse through your damp hair and blow dry your tresses using a large round brush.

The shop assistant is later seen getting picked up by his mother as he leaves work; this tiny, otherwise unremarkable detail speaks volumes about the meaning of freedom in a society organised so completely around privilege.

With a sea of tiny buttons and a confusing multifunction volume / tuning knob, it looks straight out of an electronics store.

Its crank - case fume extraction was via a tiny orifice directly into the inlet manifold which obviously could not handle any significant volume of crank - case fumes without upsetting the carburation.

Sales volumes are tiny, but wagon buyers are loyal and loaded - none probably more so than Mercedes - Benz E-Class wagon owners (one in four of whom has an annual household income of more than $ 500,000).

Volume of the tiny Spark more than doubled (+164 %) but the Sonic and Volt declined slightly.

Sitting in the Altima 3.5 SL, it's only a tiny leap to visualize an Infiniti badge on the steering wheel, and you could be excused for thinking you were in a near - luxury offering rather than one of the country's highest - volume midsize sedans.

The Leaf is no longer a tiny - volume car like the rest of the battery - electric vehicles from mainstream automakers.

One annoying hardware detail is the tiny, almost non-existent volume buttons on the left side of the Xoom.

Along the left side of the Galaxy S II is a long volume bar; the right has a tiny power key within easy thumb reach, the bottom has a microUSB port, and a headphone jack graces the top edge.

The top edge of the Galaxy S II has a 3.5 mm headphone jack, the bottom has a microUSB port, a slim volume rocker sits on the left, and a tiny power lies on the right side.

To which publishers will reply that they do not give Amazon favourable terms; that Amazon is able to sell on the tiniest of margins — or even at a loss — because it enjoys huge volumes and books are just one of myriad goods it sells.