small particles
21Ilokano particles — are an aspect of Ilokano grammar.Particles, themselves, lack a meaning independent of a phrase or clause. For the most part, they shade the meaning of the phrase or clause in which they occur.Iloko has two morphological types: Enclitic and… …
22colloidal particles — colloidal particles, the fine particles which the ultramicroscope shows to be present in a solution containing a colloid: »The colloidal particles as they are known are too small to be trapped by sieves for recovery (Science News Letter) …
23Nanotechnology-Small Is Beautiful — ▪ 2005 The popular media were abuzz in 2004 with a new term, nanotechnology, which refers to the manufacture of materials and devices at an extremely small scale. The prefix nano derives from the Greek nanos, meaning “dwarf.” A nanometre is …
24droplet nuclei — Small particles (1 to 4 mm in diameter) that represent what is left from the evaporation of larger particles (10 mm or more in diameter) called droplets …
25condensation nuclei — Small particles in the air on which water vapors condense or sublimate. Smoke and dust particles act as condensation nuclei …
26micro-carrier — Small particles used as a support material for (particularly mammalian) cells, which are too fragile to be pumped and stirred as bacterial cells are in a large scale culture …
27Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
28Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
29Dark matter — Not to be confused with antimatter, dark energy, dark fluid or dark flow. For other uses, see Dark Matter (disambiguation) …
30Le Sage's theory of gravitation — is the most common name for the kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges Louis Le Sage in 1748. The theory proposed a mechanical explanation for Newton s gravitational force in terms… …
