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Cylinders

Cylinder

1. A cylindrical lens.

2. A cylindrical or rodlike renal cast.

3. A cylindrical metal container for gases stored under high pressure.

Origin: g. Kylindros, a roll


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A Monkey's Uncle

... relationships are ever changing. Predators adapt to prey behaviors. There are cases similar to the one you cited, in which dolphins will create cylinders of bubbles that trap anchovies in ever smaller bunches, so that the dolphins have a higher success rate when they swim through. This is an ...

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by AstusAleator
Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:36 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: A Monkey's Uncle
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The Fiber Disease

... areas and are excellent carrier for poorly water soluble drugs [5]. Niosomes are able to adopt geodetic sphere structure[6]. Cochleate cylinders are made of negatively charged lipids and form cigar-like cylinders several tens of micrometers long[1,2]. DepoFoam particles are prepared ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:54 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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The Fiber Disease

... AND what about DIFFRACTOR? in following. This was pub in 1981. "The polar pili of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains K and O are hollow cylinders with 52 Å outer diameter and 12 Å inner diameter. There is a girdle of low electron density (interpreted as due to a local concentration of ...

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by Skytroll
Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:20 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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The Fiber Disease

... cells form sheets of cells that line surfaces and internal cavities. The simplest metazoa, such as hydra, consist largely of two concentric cylinders of epithelial cell sheets. Most internal organs in higher animals, such as the respiratory, digestive, genito-urinary and vascular systems ...

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by Skytroll
Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:33 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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Basic Osmotics

... night. There is a hypothesis that says that if there is no motion in a fluid, then diffusion will not happen. What they did was take two hollow cylinders, and placed one inside the other. Then, in the space between the two, they filled with glycerin. A line of dye was placed longitudinally from ...

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by biostudent84
Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:05 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Basic Osmotics
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