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Recent Examples of droplets
There might be something undeniably satisfying about working up a sweat, watching the droplets roll down your skin and leaving you with a red-faced glow.
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Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
While white adipose tissue has one large fatty droplet, brown tissue has many tiny droplets, and lots of mitochondria.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
However, these formations can also arise from volcanic processes, such as the rapid cooling of molten rock droplets during an eruption, or from meteorite impacts, upon which vaporized rocks condense.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The plastic sleeve also helps keep the beloved pieces of paper from being further damaged by greasy fingers and water droplets.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
The sheet zigzagged through an incubation chamber, then passed a tool that squeegeed droplets of DNA into a vial—the data archive.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
When life emerged, cells would have been floating around on the ocean’s surface, and when there was a wave that crashed, tiny droplets would fly up into the air and take life with it.
—Ross Pomeroy, Big Think, 20 Mar. 2025
In recent experiments, the team of chemists noticed that when water droplets move around — like in windblown sea spray, for instance — those droplets tend to develop different electrical charges.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
His lab studies chemical reactions in and between tiny water droplets.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
While white adipose tissue has one large fatty droplet, brown tissue has many tiny droplets, and lots of mitochondria.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
However, these formations can also arise from volcanic processes, such as the rapid cooling of molten rock droplets during an eruption, or from meteorite impacts, upon which vaporized rocks condense.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The plastic sleeve also helps keep the beloved pieces of paper from being further damaged by greasy fingers and water droplets.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
The sheet zigzagged through an incubation chamber, then passed a tool that squeegeed droplets of DNA into a vial—the data archive.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
When life emerged, cells would have been floating around on the ocean’s surface, and when there was a wave that crashed, tiny droplets would fly up into the air and take life with it.
—Ross Pomeroy, Big Think, 20 Mar. 2025
In recent experiments, the team of chemists noticed that when water droplets move around — like in windblown sea spray, for instance — those droplets tend to develop different electrical charges.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
His lab studies chemical reactions in and between tiny water droplets.
—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Droplets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droplets. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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