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Nerve cells transmit their signals using electrically charged atoms (called ions) of sodium and potassium, which work rather like electrons in a metal wire.
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From the kite's wooden frame there protrudes a metal wire.
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Same bangs cut straight across like on those dolls done up in native costumes that live their whole lives in plastic cases held up by a metal wire around the waist.
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But when, if you do this trick in a laboratory, you give the electrons the chance to bypass a section of rock by way of a metal wire, quite large currents will flow.
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Physicists thought that ballistic anisotropic magnetoresistance would show itself when a magnetised metal wire a few atoms across was placed in a second magnetic field.
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The stage that set designer Tom Pye has decorated includes a metal folding table you might find at a Target, a ladder, a few cane chairs, barbed wire, a gorgeous bush sculpted from metal, a birdcage and a stunning wooden bird pole, though the vulture that had been onstage before the curtain was nowhere to be found during one preview.
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Geiger counters use an electrically charged wire inside a metal tube filled with methane and argon gas.
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He subsequently created and acquired several metallic construction firms between 1971 and 1988, including steel pipe manufacturer Metallor and Nord Metal, a manufacturer of wire mesh.
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An AC electric motor is a smallish hunk of metal wrapped in wire.
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When Tasers are fired, two metal barbs connected to the weapon by a thin wire pierce the skin before the charge is delivered.
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Tensegrity refers to the balance of pushing and pulling forces--the metal pushes, the wire pulls--that work to maintain a flexible, elastic shape.
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It was little more than a razor wire and mesh compound of cages, protected from the elements by a metal roof.
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