The chemist used a capillary tube to move the drop of liquid. From LearnThat.org.
A capillary tube. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Hemangioma is an all-encompassing term, while the term capillary malformation better describes one of the hallmarks of Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [Archives of Pediatrics current issue] Reference
A capillary from the tongue of the frog before and after mechanical irritation. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A capillary from the tongue of the frog before and after stimulation with urethane. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The water which rises in the tubes is called capillary water. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
Juanes studies a phenomenon called capillary trapping, through which CO. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
"I thought a capillary was a hairy bug with lots of legs that turned into a butterfly," said Kuroki. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
This film of water in the soil is known as the capillary water and is the source of water for the plants. From Wordnik.com. [28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture] Reference
The force which causes the water to rise in these tubes is called the capillary force, from the old Latin word. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
These 370 glass capillaries are bundled into a glass tube called a capillary array, about the width of a drinking straw. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE] Reference
Liquid is drawn sponge-like through spaces, or pores, between the copper particles by a phenomenon called capillary wicking. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Normally, blood from the heart moves from arteries to veins through a fine network of small blood vessels called a capillary bed. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
Normally, blood from the heart moves from the arteries to the veins through a fine network of small blood vessels called a capillary bed. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
The ascent of sap is not explicable on the mechanical grounds ordinarily advanced, such as capillary attraction. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
Results must be validated using alternative techniques, such as capillary electrophoresis sequencing or quantitative PCR. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In abrasions and superficial wounds capillary hemorrhage occurs. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Branchlets are 1/2 to 3 inches, capillary, angular and further dividing. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Racemes of 3 spikelets on the capillary whorled branches of an erect panicle. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Panicle rather narrow with short capillary branches; glumes I and II nerveless. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It is impossible to set limits to so uncertain a power as this of capillary attraction. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
In congestion of the udder and rupture of the capillary vessels, the milk may contain blood. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The collodion is placed in steel cylinders and expelled by pressure through capillary tubes. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
A deep and absorptive subsoil returns water to the surface, by capillary action, as it is needed. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
This is an inflammation of the vascular capillary bodies and the superficial layer of the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Inflorescence is a much branched open panicle, branches spreading or erect, capillary and fragile. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
They become capillary in diameter, and finally open into the infundibula of the air cells of the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Nor indeed can we imagine two contrary motions in any capillary system -- the chyle upwards, the blood downwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
A kind of glass wool is produced by drawing out to a capillary thread two glass rods of different degrees of hardness. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The lobule is the smallest division of the lung and is formed by capillary bronchial tubes, air cells and blood-vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
This motor works a small intermitting pump, which supplies the capillary boiler with water, according to the quantity consumed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
Thus, it would seem, that draining may modify the force of capillary attraction, while it cannot affect that of adhesive attraction. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The first and the second glumes are empty, subequal, narrowly linear with a strong midrib which is produced into a long capillary awn. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The vessels of the right heart do not communicate at their capillary peripheries, for its veins are systemic, and its arteries are pulmonary. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The tendency of water is to lie level in the soil; but capillary attraction and mechanical obstructions offer constant resistance to this tendency. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
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