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And hemoglobin acts as a molecular sponge to soak up the oxygen in your lungs and then carry it to other parts of the body.
So here we see, for example, a sponge spicule, two bits of coral here, that's a sea urchin spine.
That's a sea sponge that has a fiber optic.
We used all sorts of other cutting-edge tools, such as this sonde, or what I like to call the sponge proctologist, whereby the sonde itself tests for metabolism rates in what in this particular case is a barrel sponge, or the redwoods of the [ocean].
Teacher: So put "sponge ball" ... Student 4l: [I decided to] do the shot put and the sponge ball because they're two totally different weights, and if you drop them at the same time, maybe they'll drop at the same speed.
It's a whole lot more like a sponge.
I can swim through a lot of the pores in our earth's sponge, but where I can't, other life-forms and other materials can make that journey without me.
Meanwhile, the diaphragm, cervical cap, and sponge work by being placed over the cervix, barricading the entrance to the uterus.
Perhaps the most impressive of these ocean-dwelling ancients is the Antarctic glass sponge, which can survive over 10,000 years in frigid waters.
The English language is a magnificent sponge.
But recently, we discovered that you also need sleep before learning to actually prepare your brain, almost like a dry sponge ready to initially soak up new information.
What about if I put a thermal sponge in the middle, in the passageway between where the air has to move between hot and cold?
So he made fine wires, and cracked glass, and all different kinds of materials to be a heat sponge.
So when the air pushes up to go from the hot end to the cold end, it puts some heat into the sponge.
It makes it like a sponge.
It begins to melt below the boiling point of water and does not drive off the oily contaminants for which it is a sponge.
That passion and that hunger and that ability to be a sponge really attracts awesome mentors and people willing to give you their time to give you some good advice.
He said, "The skin acts like a sponge.
Let's go to a sponge.
I wipe it up with a sponge, and I put it under the running water, and I have a lot less energy and a lot more water.
Every part of the ecosystem in this place seems very healthy, from tiny, little animals like a nudibrank crawling over encrusting sponge or a leatherjacket that is a very important animal in this ecosystem because it grazes on the bottom and allows new life to take hold.
This film takes a lot of liberties with the known historical facts.Even little things like Flynn licking one stamp after another, when he almost certainly would have used a moistened sponge, is one of the annoying things.
Mamie Van Doren's breast-baring sponge bath is the most horrifying appearance by a naked geriatric since The Shining.
string for spaghetti, soap for cheese, belt for bacon, sponge for meatballs, and he forces them to eat it.
I had also heard that some set up shots for a show on sponge divers was shot in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
The first time I saw this, I wished I had been wearing a nappy or sitting on a very big sponge, it is that funny.
True, there are some great songs, but Red Skelton is purely annoying, Zsa Zsa Gabor is wasted in a thankless role, and Ann Miller has all the personality of a sponge.
They don't even break a sweat what with constant daubs from the body make-up sponge.
It could be said to be intelligent viewing - we're not just sponge fed everything there and then - and thats a welcome change too!
Then, suddenly,“the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded.
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