Initially the amyloid appears as a long protein that is then cut by enzymes into shorter fragments that become molecularly sticky and clump together, forming a plaque.

刚开始，类乙型蛋白以长条状的形式出现，接著被一种酵素分解为分子般黏状的细小碎片，然后纠结在一起，形成了所谓的“病灶”。

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As the particles clump together, though, gold's red turns to blue and silver's yellow turns to violet.

但是，当粒子聚集在一起时，金粒子就由红色变为蓝色，银粒子由黄色变为紫罗兰。

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In a large bowl, vigorously whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, and salt until there are no visible clumps (cocoa tends to clump up).

在一个大碗中，将面粉，可可粉，糖，苏打，盐搅拌在一起，搅拌到混合物不再结块为止（可可粉比较容易结块）

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Just by way of example, when you clump poor people together and when you clump poor, black people together, like we saw in New Orleans in the Ninth Ward, it's much harder for those families to lift themselves out of poverty.

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And these heavy elements are very important for making stars, because they allow the hydrogen and the helium to clump together, and collapse into stars then, and start to shine.

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Instead, the team found, they tend to clump together in bigger clusters of molecules - and then as even bigger lumps composed of these clusters.

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