Sentences with phrase «with tiny particles»

And it's filled with tiny particles known as PM2.5, which can lodge inside lungs, trigger coughing, worsen diseases like asthma, and lead to long - term damage including cancer.

Ulrike Lohmann and Blaž Gasparini, both researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Scienceat ETH Zurich inSwitzerland, proposed a counterintuitive plan: Seed the upper atmosphere with tiny particles of desert dust to reduce cirrus clouds.

Ulrike Lohmann and Blaž Gasparini, both researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Scienceat ETH Zurich inSwitzerland, proposed a counterintuitive plan: Seed the upper atmosphere with tiny particles of desert dust to reduce cirrus clouds.

The sensor is made of a plastic material embedded with tiny particles of nickel with nanoscale spikes protruding from their surface.

Albedo modification would work by lacing the atmosphere with tiny particles or aerosols that would reflect sunlight and mimic natural processes.

Not exact matches

Make sure you have a container to collect the pressed coconut milk with a light mesh strainer to catch any tiny particles of coconut.

And a standard juicer is not much more useful, as the fast - spinning screen cuts the fruit into tiny bits and aerates these particles, leaving lots of foam, and juice with less flavor.

The nose is an amazing filter lined with tiny hairs called «cilia», which help to filter, humidify and warm or cool air, therefore protecting your body from particles of foreign matters.

In 2007, the tiny Comet Holmes grew and expanded so much that the gassy diameter of the comet's coma, or atmosphere, became larger than the diameter of the sun, with particles reaching all of the planets.

Even children who don't chew on paint chips can get lead into their system if there's lead - based paint in or around their home or another building they spend time in: Doors and window frames covered with lead paint release tiny particles of lead dust into the air every time they're opened or closed.

The «sprayer» used to spray poo into the toilet is splashing tiny little particles of fecal matter into the air on toothbrushes, floor, etc and with a little one crawling around everywhere and putting everything into their mouths, it is HIGHLY unsanitary.

The result is ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate, molecules that condense with others of their kind, plus water, to form tiny particles in the air that absorb sunlight and block visibility — smog.

Jayawardhana's storytelling skill shines as he follows scientists handing off work from one generation to the next, culminating in a better understanding of the tiny particle with a surprisingly big role in the universe.

With PNNL's climate model, Smith created more than 1,400 potential scenarios to reflect the many possibilities surrounding aerosols, tiny particles including soot that float in the atmosphere.

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

Because it is so tenuous, it is best seen with light shining from behind it, when the tiny particles are outlined with light because of the phenomenon of diffraction.

Lanza explained that these nanoparticles self - assemble, comparing the process to shaking up an oil and vinegar salad dressing with a bit of mayonnaise to stabilize the tiny particles and the Myc inhibitor in the mixture.

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

A team led by Empa researcher Andreas Gerecke showed that cutting polystyrene panels with heated filaments releases HBCDs which then attach themselves to tiny plastic particles.

In addition to the particles collected during Stardust's encounter with comet Wild 2 in January of 2004 the spacecraft delivered tiny particles of interstellar dust that originated in distant stars, light - years away.

Sea creatures eat plastic dumped in the ocean, but they also might be accumulating plastic by sucking up tiny particles with their siphons and gills.

After verifying the inclusions with a scanning electron microscope, researchers have to slice into the diamonds with a laser and extract the tiny particles for analysis via mass spectrometer.

For years he has been studying the behaviour of tiny particles on metal - oxide surfaces together with Professor Ulrike Diebold (both TU Vienna).

Chon's group embedded the disk with tiny gold particles known as nanorods.

When they worked it all out, they determined they could explain the universe with something they called string theory, which replaces the pointlike particles in particle physics with tiny, elongated vibrating strings.

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.

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level - the nanometer scale - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D «superlattice» multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is driven by the shape of the tiny building blocks.

But a group of engineers has now shown that — with the help of a bit of noise — filters with a relatively wide mesh can trap very tiny particles.

The IZI project team came up with the idea of using tiny polymer particles containing a luminescent dye.

A team of physicists and chemists from the Laboratory of Attosecond Physics at the Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has studied the interaction of light with tiny glass particles.

In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).

Semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, are tiny, nanometer - sized particles with the ability to absorb light and re-emit it with well - defined colors.

Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and director of the Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Center near Batavia, Ill., thinks that if we were to peer down at the tiniest subdivisions of space and time, we would find a universe filled with an intrinsic jitter, the busy hum of static.

In addition, the scientists studded the outside of the particle with so - called aptamers — tiny proteins that link directly to cancer cells while avoiding regular cells.

Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids.

Their tests with transmission electron microscopy on the nanocrystals, which form as ultrathin films, plates and tiny particles, reveal the desired quality and uniformity.

«What happens when you have urban and industrial pollution,» ACE - Asia scientist Huebert explains, «is that you wind up with so many small particles that you wind up with a very large number of very tiny droplets that are too tiny to settle out [of the cloud].

The finding was quite surprising, team member Orlin Velev says, considering that «nothing was expected to happen with waterborne metallic nanoparticles in the AC electric field because the force between these tiny particles is so small.»

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Some atmospheric VOCs combine with oxygen to form tiny airborne particles called oxygenated VOCs (oVOCs), which insulate the atmosphere and lead to warming.

This technique, tried and perfected at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)-- a particle collider and U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory — orients the colliding protons» spins in a particular direction, somewhat like tiny bar magnets with their North poles all pointing up.

At temperatures below 300 degrees Celsius (572 degrees Fahrenheit), the tiny gold - alloy particles, now swathed with water molecules, etch nanoscale pits into the indium phosphide.

They then filled them with tiny polystyrene beads in a soap solution to mimic dirt particles on a fabric that has gone through a wash.

Now, an expert U.N. panel has come up with a technical road map to guide the first global effort to create a standardized emissions inventory of tiny soot particles.

Mixed in with the reflective flakes are tiny, dark particles of pollution.

Many subatomic particles act like tiny magnets, with their strength dubbed their «g - factor».

Today, most nanotubes are grown with the help of vanishingly small catalyst particles that help carbon atoms in a vapor develop into tiny tubes.

Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute and Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz used a highly detailed computer modeling system — one that divided Earth and its impactor into more than 20,000 tiny particles whose interactions under stress both with each other and with gravity were simulated — to investigate their scenario.

The findings are consistent with the idea, first proposed nearly 40 years ago, that animals have tiny magnetic particles of an iron - containing compound called magnetite in their bodies.

The particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is akin to firing two needles 10 kilometres apart with such precision that they meet halfway.