• The cells can then be separated from debris and a thin layer deposited on a glass slide.

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  • Such a thin layer alters the current flow in a way that reduces the current's susceptibility to magnetic interference.

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  • For instance, electroplating can be used to coat a thin layer of gold on to a cheap piece of material.

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  • In Afghanistan, the foam would be wrapped in a low-tech layer of chicken wire, then covered in a thin layer of concrete.

    BBC: Aftermath of 1998 quake in northern Afghanistan

  • The cotton fibers are made conductive by coating the fibers, first with gold nanoparticles, and then with a thin layer of PEDOT.

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  • Weight and time crush this snow into a thin layer of ice.

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  • To compensate for this, egg producers in the US commonly used to spray eggs with a thin layer of odorless, colorless mineral oil.

    FORBES: Natural Protection

  • The most promising sail material has a carbon-fibre backing coated with a thin layer (just a few tens of atoms thick) of aluminium.

    ECONOMIST: Rockets are not the only way to travel through outer space

  • But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.

    ECONOMIST: Just press print

  • Then, apply a thin layer of the topical agent once or twice a day for at least two weeks, or according to package directions.

    CNN: Athlete's foot

  • The artificial bone, porous and coated with a thin layer of calcium phosphate, is implanted into the arm in place of the damaged bone.

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • To enable this material to store electrical energy, two layers of woven fibres are made into a sandwich, separated by a thin layer of a glass-based insulating material.

    ECONOMIST: Carbon-composite batteries

  • To ensure the building looked like an old brownstone from the outside, Mr. Peterson took a thin layer of real brownstone and attached it to light aluminum honeycomb.

    WSJ: Up and Down Brownstone

  • After the dunes are reshaped, the topsoil is spread over the bare sand in a thin layer, triggering the natural processes that facilitate the recovery of the dunes.

    CNN: South Africa dune mining whips up sandstorm

  • Dr Bard and his colleagues have developed a novel form of memory that consists of a thin layer of organic liquid crystal sandwiched between two sheets of glass.

    ECONOMIST: Just press print

  • Outside my hotel room window, a thin layer of clouds has stolen over the valley, diffusing the light and making it difficult to see where the sun really is.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Davos 2000: Hail the New Economy

  • Another boy spreads a thin layer of the mixture on a photo frame and a third, seated on his haunches, starts pasting tiny pieces of mirrors and sequins along the border.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • See, your eyelids actually spread a film of oil over your eyeball which protects a thin layer of tears that allow you to keep your eye open without it drying out.

    ENGADGET: Alt-week 7.28.12: social mathematics, Pluto's moons and humans-on-a-chip

  • Displaying the charred remains of two recently zapped plane panels, Hadad explains that a thin layer of copper mesh on an aircraft's exterior can drastically reduce the damage caused when lightning strikes.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • All that's required to give the impression of a full eight hours to tired-looking eyes is a quick swipe of cream onto the lids, smoothed with the fingers into a thin layer.

    WSJ: When Beige Is Brilliant: Eye Shadows | Outer Beauty

  • Plank's son Roger, 42, who serves as chief financial officer, keeps a reminder of those days on his desk: a small vial of foul-looking water with a thin layer of crude oil on the top.

    FORBES: Dry powder

  • The device that Dr Kirczenow and Dr Rego had in mind is called a semiconductor heterostructure a semiconductor sandwich made of a thin layer of aluminium gallium arsenide held between two thicker layers of gallium arsenide.

    ECONOMIST: Microelectronics

  • To preserve them for more than a billion years to make fossils out of ephemera a site first has to coat its remains in a fixative: a thin layer of waterproof sediment that will slowly harden into stone.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • Rocks laid down at the time - some 65.5 million years ago - show a thin layer abundant in rare elements like Iridium, spherules and shocked Quartz that could only have come from a meteorite impact.

    BBC: Closing the 'three metre gap'

  • The robot (or snailbot) is comprised of moveable segments that ripple on top of a thin layer of synthetic snail sludge, and, just like its living counterpart, is able to climb up walls and stick to ceilings.

    CNN: Snails inspire design for state-of-the-art robots

  • They built a thin layer, or "nanostructure, " using minute particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material and can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.

    CNN: Washing no longer dirty work

  • The company is installing equipment at the new factory in Portland and bringing the machines online to roll out its solar panels, which contain a thin layer of solar cells made with copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS).

    FORBES: SoloPower To Start Flexible Thin Film Solar Production in Oregon

  • Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.

    FORBES: A Blu-Ray Of Hope For Singulus

  • The other established approach is to take two wafers of silicon, coat each with a thin layer of glass on one side (which is done by baking them in oxygen), and then fuse them together to produce a silicon-glass-silicon sandwich.

    ECONOMIST: Chip technology

  • In one of such sessions, together with his doctoral student Konstantin Novoselov, he used a piece of ordinary sticky tape (which allegedly they found in a bin) to peel off a very thin layer of graphite, taken from a pencil.

    FORBES: Research by Mucking About

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