Sentence examples for contacting a surface from inspiring English sources

The mechanism of this process remains unclear: in particular, it is not known whether the initial amounts of factor XIIa, an active form of factor XII, are produced purely by factor XII contacting a surface or if traces of factor XIIa pre-exist.

An illustration of the setup that MIT researchers used to image the tiny 'necks' that form where a droplet contacts a surface.

A potential problem with this idea is that cIPS neurons have only been found to respond to visible surfaces, whereas fingertips may potentially contact a surface on the opposite side of an object during a grasp.

The configuration mimics the tokamak divertor plasma channel contacting a target surface with nearby wall.

Push the wire at an angle until it contacts a joist surface.

Ensure silverware and dishes are clean, and that one never utilizes the napkins or other disposable wear that has already contacted a public surface or previously inhaled atmosphere.

Our approach could be adopted to operate as a pulsed sampling probe where the liquid tip contacts a surface at a point in a periodic fashion, providing higher spatial resolution than an equivalent liquid junction micro sampling system.

One actuator applies a normal load (Fn) to a contacting surface, while the other actuator induces a tangential load (FT).

When in very close contact with a surface, those flaps create a molecular attraction called van der Waals forces.

Its glove interface is also different in that the fingertips need to make physical contact with a surface.

Direct contact with a surface at 200 °C for 4 min produced the most mechanically robust layer.