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- noun Plural form of
spatula .
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Examples
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The combined attraction of a billion spatulae is a thousand times more than a gecko needs to hang from the ceiling.
Gecko Feet: Natural Marvel Heather McDougal 2008
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The combined attraction of a billion spatulae is a thousand times more than a gecko needs to hang from the ceiling.
Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Each setae branches off into hundreds of even more miniscule hairs, called spatulae, just 200 nanometers wide.
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Geckos are able to climb walls thanks to a coating on their toes of tiny hairs, called "setae," that are tipped with flat "spatulae."
Boing Boing 2008
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The large surface area of the spatulae exploit the van der Waals force, the weak attractive force between molecules, enabling the gecko's feet to stick.
Boing Boing 2008
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Because the same force applies between dirt particles and the surfaces the geckos walk on, the dirt prefers to stick to the relatively large and attractive surface rather than the tiny spatulae on the gecko's feet.
Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Because the same force applies between dirt particles and the surfaces the geckos walk on, the dirt prefers to stick to the relatively large and attractive surface rather than the tiny spatulae on the gecko's feet.
Gecko Feet: Natural Marvel Heather McDougal 2008
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The curly entangled mess acts like natural spatulae – when pressed against a surface, they have a large contact area and hence a strong hold.
Boing Boing 2008
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Each seta, in turn, is divided at the end into approximately a thousand tiny spatulae (yes, you guessed why they are called that), which are about 200 billlionths of a meter wide, which is smaller than the wavelength of visible light.
Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Each seta, in turn, is divided at the end into approximately a thousand tiny spatulae (yes, you guessed why they are called that), which are about 200 billlionths of a meter wide, which is smaller than the wavelength of visible light.
Gecko Feet: Natural Marvel Heather McDougal 2008
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