Sentence examples for microscopic flaws from inspiring English sources

Albert Galaburda of Harvard Medical School found two sorts of microscopic flaws in the language centres of dyslexics' brains.

Unlike the atmospheric junk, which simply encrusts the surface, mercury seeps into microscopic flaws in the cylinders' surfaces created by the polishing process.

Now most diamond consumers can discourse handily on the four C's of the rating system (carat, clarity, color and cut) and some prospective brides can even detect microscopic flaws without a loupe.

The strength of most commercial glass products, on the other hand, ranges between only 14 and 175 megapascals (2,000 and 25,000 pounds per square inch), owing to the presence of scratches and microscopic flaws, generally on the surface.

At 22, Tombaugh had been making his own telescopes for years in a root cellar on his father's Kansas farm (where the air was cool and still enough to allow for the correction of microscopic flaws in the mirrors he polished by hand).

At those temperatures microscopic flaws can develop into cracks.

There are women who, because of some microscopic flaw in their cellular machinery, have been condemned to go through six or seven pregnancies, only to lose every baby within hours.

Yet we have so far followed clinical tradition and considered hip fracture as a macroscopic event, so far hardly considering its origins as a crack at the sub-osteon level, initiating in a microscopic flaw, that enlarges explosively to result in organ failure.

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Offshore and Polar Engineers, Los Angeles '96, Vol. IV, pp. 502 509.], deals with the amount of energy required so that arbitrary crack propagation originates from microscopic material flaws of the steel structure, in areas of high strain concentration during large deflections.

The company apparently ran into every potential pitfall for a brand new hardware manufacturer, including a microscopic design flaw that forced it to scrap an entire run, resulting in around $60,000 in costs.

When Perkin-Elmer's Danbury unit produced the mirror in the early 1980s, a microscopic optical flaw was ground into the mirror's surface.