Sentences with phrase «very tiny molecules»

Objects are made up of very tiny molecules.

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Within the crystal, the BTC molecules function as tiny «light antennas»: they capture light and very efficiently pass it on to the lanthanide ions in a radiationless energy - transfer process.
Most do their job well, but they come with a major drawback: «Most drugs in use right now are small molecules, which are very tiny and nonspecific.
They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.
Now plant biologists and immunologists at York have joined forces to examine a very closely related family of these small molecules (flavonoids) to establish how tiny changes to their chemical structures affect their bio-activity.
Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered through his crude microscope and confirmed that life is indeed packaged in very small containers, biologists have recruited physicists to focus stronger lenses, train more powerful rays and run ever tinier probes on cells and the molecules that make them live — and die.
MicroRNAs are tiny RNA molecules that have very important roles in gene regulation.
Some are as small as molecules; in fact, there is a borderline area in which you can think of them as very tiny dust grains or as very large molecules.
Other useful properties of synchrotron light are: - high energy beams to penetrate deeper into matter - small wavelengths permit the studying of tiny features, e.g. bonds in molecules; nanoscale objects - synchrotron beams can be coherent and / or polarised, permitting specific experiments - the synchrotron beam can be made to flash at a very high frequency, giving the light a time structure.
(it would be very tiny since a million molecules have to move faster to compensate for 390 extra absorptions) If this is true then there is no delay time in reaching equilibrium & the daily temp cycles don't have to do much at all to restablish it.
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