Sentences with phrase «which adhere to the surface»

It's formed by bacteria naturally found in the dog's saliva which adhere to the surface of the dog's teeth.

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First, water adheres to many surfaces with which it comes into contact.

The feet of spiders and geckos, in contrast, are perfectly dry, which suggests these animals employ intermolecular forces to adhere to various surfaces.

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.

To adhere to solid surfaces, marine mussels produce byssal threads, each of which is a stiff tether at one end and a shock absorber with 160 percent extensibility at the other enTo adhere to solid surfaces, marine mussels produce byssal threads, each of which is a stiff tether at one end and a shock absorber with 160 percent extensibility at the other ento solid surfaces, marine mussels produce byssal threads, each of which is a stiff tether at one end and a shock absorber with 160 percent extensibility at the other end.

Scientists had long suspected that bacterial nanowires were pili — Latin for «hair» — which are hair - like features common on other bacteria, allowing them to adhere to surfaces and even connect to one another.

These «psammophorous» plants have sticky surfaces to which sand adheres.

The explanation: Heat caused the HEV cells to express on their surface higher levels of two so - called «homing» molecules, ICAM - 1 and CCL21, which make lymphocytes tightly adhere to the HEV cells.

They then exposed these conjoined pairs to one - micrometer iron oxide flakes, which became magnetically adhered to the microsphere surfaces.

Lift the edge, which will adhere lightly to the surface, and peel it back.

The same thing might be said about Microsoft: It could easily have had an OEM partner like Nokia manufacture the Surface, but it chose to set the design and pricing standard to which future Windows 8 tablets must adhere.

In cats with FLUTD, it helps to create a water barrier that protects the cells of the urinary tract, which in turn helps prevent bacteria and crystals from adhering to their surface.

The main problem begins once these microorganisms adhere onto the surface of the teeth as well as the gums and slowly secrete the thin biofilm which will slowly degrade the underlying structures leading to tooth cavities and gingivitis or inflammation of the gums.

These texts were reprinted with an equivalent of «puff paint» or raised ink, which Chun then tore, reconfigured and hand - dyed to cover shapes he adhered to the surface of his orignal model, from which Mixografia then made a mold.

Once these have dried (which can take up to two weeks), Otero peels the oil paint off their surfaces with a set of «blades», then adheres their buckled compositions onto canvas, amending their broken surfaces with additional painted gestures, shapes and letters.

One of Hodges» best - known works is a set of massive sculptural boulders (pictured), Untitled (2011), which he created by adhering shimmering stainless - steel skins to the surfaces of four 400 - million - year - old stones, now permanently installed in Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center.

In «Into the Groove» (2010), which was painted on a slightly off, rectangular piece of wood, with a small circular indentation punched into it and two strips of corrugated cardboard adhered to its surface, Clippinger echoes the scalloped edge of one cardboard strip by painting a similarly scalloped form in black along the painting's left edge.

She analyzed whether cells adhere better to rough or smooth surfaces of Bioglass, which could lead to improved bone implants.

The issue is not whether «climate denial» is right or wrong, but rather that the explanations pertaining to the greenhouse conjecture just simply don't adhere to well known physics, and ignore the physics which explains the warming of the surface by non-radiative processes.

A gonococcus» pilus is akin to a grappling hook — it attaches to a surface and then retracts, pulling the bacterium into contact with the host cell, to which it can easily adhere.

In order to colonize the urogenital tract, T. vaginalis must be able to adhere to the host's cells, which it is able to do by producing enzymes that degrade the surfaces of the host's cells.

I primed it with two coats of BIN shellac based primer which seals the piece and creates a surface for the new paint to adhere.

I sanded the whole body a bit, which I normally don't do, because I was going to be painting the whole thing with the SW latex paint, and it doesn't adhere to varnished surfaces like chalk paint does.

I ended up pulling all the paint off the top (literally pulling in sheets which goes to show you how well it adhered to the surface to start) and restaining it.