Bursts

... cell walls, and if they cannot (because the presence of one of these antibiotics) then water rushes in the cell by osmosis, the cell swells and bursts. So it is not true that these antibiotics only stop the bacteria from spreading and wait for the immune system to clean up the stuff. Even though ...

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... from any other type of pressure, which is simply the force/area (think basic physics). Now what happens when a pipe full of water at high pressure bursts? the same thing happens to a large enough cut on your body. Like Biohazard said in his first response!

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so way back in the day... when life on earth wasn't quite formed yet... the atmosphere was subjected to bursts of energy from ultraviolet rays, eletrical discharge in the form of lightning, heat from volcanic eruptions, hot springs and radioactive decay... from all of this, ...

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... blood vessels are exposed the majority of the time. The systolic blood pressure, on the other hand, is exerted on blood vessels only in short bursts following the ventricular contractions. This observation led researchers to believe that a high diastolic blood pressure was the most important ...

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... entire shift to a new species, wherever that species is in the world. That theory neatly accounts for the apparent sudden extinctions and sudden bursts of new species that aren't paralleled in the fossil record.

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