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The capillary tubes are made for neonates. In neonates, capillary blood samples are desirable over other forms of sampling. This is because frequent blood collection from patients with low blood ...

This prompted a switch to a capillary emitter design, which uses a fine glass capillary tube to contain the liquid metal. This showed far more promise and allowed [Zach] to infer a thrust by ...

Plants have tiny tubes called xylem that carry water and nutrients from roots to leaves and flowers, like drinking through a straw. A process called capillary action pulls the colored water up through ...

A simple potometer is a piece of capillary tubing to which a plant has been connected. The water uptake is measured by recording the time taken for a bubble in the tube to move a set distance.