Nerve cells transmit their signals using electrically charged atoms (called ions) of sodium and potassium, which work rather like electrons in a metal wire.
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.
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.
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.
An AC electric motor is a smallish hunk of metal wrapped in wire.
The early teletext decoders consisted of large metal boxes - wire-wrapped prototypes.
There are no jade suits, no embalming, no wire-metal encasements as are found at other times and places.
Tensegrity refers to the balance of pushing and pulling forces--the metal pushes, the wire pulls--that work to maintain a flexible, elastic shape.
Geiger counters use an electrically charged wire inside a metal tube filled with methane and argon gas.
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.
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.
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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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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