Sentence examples for acted as wires from inspiring English sources

These small paths acted as wires.

It has been proposed that these organisms circumvent this problem by employing a number of tetraheme and decaheme cyts c which act as "wires" to transfer electrons between the inner and outer membranes.

Meanwhile, the densely QA functionalized P ES1-co-ES2) acted as "hydroxide ion wires" in blend membranes, constructing efficient ion channels for high-sP ES1-co-ES2nsfer.

Much as American forces in West Germany acted as a "trip wire" to guarantee United States involvement in any cold-war confrontation in Europe, the very vulnerability of United States troops in Okinawa means that the United States would find it difficult to stay out of a future war in East Asia.

To me, these middle-size prints act as guy wires and girders holding all the rest together.

The vertical strands act as trip wires to initially alert the spider to the presence of prey or threats.

These water molecules have been proposed to act as "proton wires" in coupling of the ET with proton transfer across the membrane.

Groups containing uncoated wires acted as a control group for their respective experimental group containing coated wires.

The groups containing uncoated stainless steel and uncoated nickel titanium wires acted as control group for their respective experimental group containing coated stainless steel and nickel titanium wires (Tables 1 and 2).

The stiffening effect caused by higher deflection of the wires acted as an opposing force and might be the reason for the higher axial loading needed to achieve osteotomy contact in indirect loading.

Platinum and Ag/AgCl wires acted as the counter and reference electrodes, respectively (Scheme 1).