Objects are made up of
very tiny molecules.
Not exact matches
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.