6/18/2023 0 Comments Storm in a teacup czerskiAnd if it lands in a person with a weak immune system, it might start a new colony, growing slowly until new bacteria are ready to be coughed out all over again. Like the miniaturized fat droplets in today’s homogenized milk, it’s just a passenger. 872 likes, 44 comments - storminateacupx on Instagram: 'chronicallymeh Just because no one can see it or people don’t know about it, just. Wherever the air goes, the bacterium goes. The gravitational pull on this new parcel is no match for the buffeting of the air. If it was originally a droplet of spit with a tuberculosis bacterium floating about in it, it’s now a tuberculosis bacterium neatly packaged up in some leftover organic crud. What was a droplet big enough for gravity to pull it through the viscous air now becomes a mere speck, a shadow of its former self. Most of that droplet is water, and in the first few seconds in the outside air, that water evaporates. Just as the cream rises slowly through viscous milk to the top of the bottle, these droplets are on course to slide through the viscous air to reach the floor. As the droplets drift downwards, they are bumped and jostled by air molecules that slow their descent. Air is too – it has to be pushed out of the way as things move through it. But it doesn’t happen quickly, because it’s not just liquids that are viscous. These droplets are being pulled downwards by gravity and once they hit the floor, at least they’re not going anywhere else. Best of all, it let me work some of them out for myself. It allowed me to look around and see the mechanisms making our everyday world tick. ![]() The fluid droplets themselves start off fairly big, perhaps a few tenths of a millimetre. Helen Czerski: Storm In A Teacup 5th September 2018 Oikofuge 3 Comments I studied physics because it explained things that I was interested in. “Czerski’s quest to enhance humanity’s everyday scientific literacy is timely and imperative.”-Science Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of. Some of them will contain the tiny rod-shaped TB bacteria, each only three-thousandths of a millimetre long. ![]() Carried out of the lungs with each cough are thousands of fluid droplets, plumes of minuscule crusaders.
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