The disadvantage is that capsules are easier (and therefore cheaper) to make than hollow, fluid-filled fibres.
The pandas bite off the hard outer part of the stalks and eat the soft fibres within.
It said MJC workers wore normal work clothes that became contaminated with asbestos fibres.
And he has even taken to beating the fibres into a pulp that makes excellent paper.
He found contaminated soils, what is thought to be asbestos fibres and broken glass.
The toquilla straw hat is woven from fibres from a palm tree of the Ecuadorian coast.
Ramie fibres are split from the plant by fingernail and twisted into threads by hand.
Asbestos fibres have been shown to be highly dangerous, but he was given no protective clothing.
When it comes to papermaking, long fibres of cellulose are preferable to short ones.
This is one reason why optical fibres are replacing electricity-carrying copper wires for communications.
The rod is heated until the glass flows easily, and then drawn into hair-thin fibres.
Mesothelioma is a cancer of the lungs caused in most cases by breathing asbestos dust or fibres.
However, other reports since have said the level of airborne fibres was much lower than previously thought.
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The researchers say the transplanted cells regenerated nerve fibres across the damaged region of the spinal cord.
One possible cause of slow transmission might be that the myelin insulation surrounding those fibres is faulty.
ENI, which also makes chemicals, would have built a chemicals or fibres plant to satisfy the locals.
In 1989, 90% of Lodz's people were in textiles and fibres, mostly destined for the Soviet Union.
Asbestos is most dangerous when its fibres are released into the air, but no-one here seemed much concerned.
The devaluation of currencies allows other Asian countries to cut export prices, especially in plastics and synthetic fibres.
The basis for CFRP construction is provided by fine carbon fibres, ten times thinner than a human hair.
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The fibres in feathers are almost entirely composed of keratin, a protein also found in hair and nails.
This study found that concrete which contained a high proportion of long steel fibres in its structure worked best.
Solar power is harvested through an organic photovoltaic skin which then transfers the energy to nano-fibres located inside nano-wires.
So the researchers took advantage of the fibres' tendency to anchor themselves at defects on a treated glass surface.
Between 1000 and 24, 000 of these fibres are used to form individual strands.
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Such fibres are hard to manipulate, let alone wire into an electrical circuit.
Powerful and rapidly changing magnetic fields were looking to see tiny particles of water travelling along the larger nerve fibres.
"They typically had a steel casing, copper for conducting power down them and optical fibres for collecting data, " he said.
Conventional optical fibres (the most common form of waveguide at the moment) generally consist of two concentric layers of glass.
The nose's sensors consist of microscopic plastic beads coated in fluorescent dye and perched on the ends of optical fibres.
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