Whether a speck of dust is man-made or natural can be worked out from its trajectory.
The capsules are made in ultra-clean conditions a speck of dust could ruin the effect.
Physically, the DNA carrying all that information is no bigger than a speck of dust.
Heron Island, for example, is a speck of land on the Barrier Reef inhabited mostly by birds.
Every email that came in was like a speck of lint on an otherwise perfect white carpet.
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Flying into Xilinhot, I could see a tiny farm, a speck of a house off in the distance.
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But the DNA was there it lay like a speck of dust at the bottom of the vial, almost impossible to see.
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"At times, I felt as if I was on a Caribbean cruise, " with barely a speck of ice to be seen, he adds.
These little beans are nutrition powerhouses, packing protein, fiber, iron, manganese, folate, thiamin, potassium and other nutrients into a modest calorie count, with just a speck of fat and no cholesterol.
The island at 1, 800 acres, the largest private island among the 60 or so that make up the British Virgin Islands has a rich lore, both as a speck of land and as a resort.
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He photographed rural scenes, wide views of towns, pictures you have to delve into to find the subject, which is often a small speck of detail somewhere in the frame.
Forensic evidence about a tiny speck of gun residue found in Barry George's coat pocket after his arrest helped secure his original conviction.
Irene Baran, CEO of Palo Alto-based Speck Products, a maker of protective cases for electronic devices, says her company isn't positioned to purchase a suite but that she plans to host the company's holiday party at an event area there once the new stadium opens.
So far, Novasite is a flea-speck operation under the wing of a relatively small biotechnology company.
It'd be hugely valuable to have the entire bottom of the screen act as a trigger, so you can focus on what's downrange of the lens instead of how to direct your fingernail to land on the speck-of-a-button that'll trigger the shutter.
But it was concentrated onto a speck a little more than one thousandth of a millimetre across and it lasted for just 30 femtoseconds (30 million billionths of a second).
Still a speck inside a business unit mainly comprised of big corporate videoconferencing deals, called telepresence, it was launched internally in November and now has 150 groups focused on things like software design.
Stroum, a Seattle philanthropist, venture capitalist and a major Democratic fundraiser selected by President Barack Obama to be the face of the U.S. in the speck European nation of just under 500, 000, has left her post before a scathing report about her was made public, according to N.
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To the sun, the Earth is a tiny speck: its diameter is less than 0.01% of the Earth-sun distance.
He seemed content with making a visual record, day after day, of that naked, statuary figure, of that slow, docile flesh, of that inexpressive face and those closed or, perhaps, fastidious eyes, of a knee bending or a breast tilting or a forefinger slowly removing a speck from a cheek.
Before I learned that credit card trick (see Speck review above), I spent plenty of time trying to pry the case off, a rather unpleasant experience for my fingers.
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