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  • noun Plural form of flake.

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Examples

  • So they would put the graphene flakes from the Scotch Tape on top of this silicon oxide substrate, and if you look under an optical microscope, it turns out that the light waves have an interference effect between the graphene and the thickness of the silicon oxide, and that interference effect shows allows you to see a single layer in an optical microscope.

    Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick 2010

  • The first image is of stone points, scrapers, and flakes from the making of points and scrapers.

    2009 November « Mudpuddle 2009

  • So they would put the graphene flakes from the Scotch Tape on top of this silicon oxide substrate, and if you look under an optical microscope, it turns out that the light waves have an interference effect between the graphene and the thickness of the silicon oxide, and that interference effect shows allows you to see a single layer in an optical microscope.

    Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick 2010

  • So they would put the graphene flakes from the Scotch Tape on top of this silicon oxide substrate, and if you look under an optical microscope, it turns out that the light waves have an interference effect between the graphene and the thickness of the silicon oxide, and that interference effect shows allows you to see a single layer in an optical microscope.

    Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick 2010

  • So they would put the graphene flakes from the Scotch Tape on top of this silicon oxide substrate, and if you look under an optical microscope, it turns out that the light waves have an interference effect between the graphene and the thickness of the silicon oxide, and that interference effect shows allows you to see a single layer in an optical microscope.

    Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick 2010

  • So they would put the graphene flakes from the Scotch Tape on top of this silicon oxide substrate, and if you look under an optical microscope, it turns out that the light waves have an interference effect between the graphene and the thickness of the silicon oxide, and that interference effect shows allows you to see a single layer in an optical microscope.

    Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick 2010

  • Dust mites thrive when there is enough to eat (human skin flakes), and the air is moist and warm.

    Environmental allergy control 2010

  • Dust mites thrive when there is enough to eat (human skin flakes), and the air is moist and warm.

    Atopic dermatitis, eczema treatments 2010

  • The snow fell gently through the pulseless air, not in flakes, but in tiny frost crystals of delicate design.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • So they would put the graphene flakes from the Scotch Tape on top of this silicon oxide substrate, and if you look under an optical microscope, it turns out that the light waves have an interference effect between the graphene and the thickness of the silicon oxide, and that interference effect shows allows you to see a single layer in an optical microscope.

    Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick 2010

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