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Capillaries

The smallest vessels in the circulatory system that are located within the tissues of the body, they transfer blood from the arteries, through the tissues to drop of nutrients and pick up waste and back to the veins.

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Why does the hair follicle need blood from the capillaries?

Hair follicles require blood from capillaries to receive essential nutrients and oxygen, which are crucial for healthy hair growth and maintenance. The blood supply also helps remove waste products produced during the hair growth process. Additionally, hormones and growth factors transported through the bloodstream play a significant role in regulating the hair growth cycle. Overall, adequate blood flow ensures optimal follicle function and hair health.

What is a capillary puncture?

A capillary puncture is a medical procedure where a tool called a "lancet"(a small needle on a spring inside of a piece of plastic) is used to make a small cut in the side of your finger to collect a few drops of blood for testing.

Or outside of a doctors office or hospital, you stabbed one of your fingers or toes on a needle or thorn.

What is the thickness of capillaries?

The thickness of the capillaries is very thin, they are about one cell thick.

What is the role of capillaries in the digestive system?

to move nutrients to the individual cells of the body

What does a capillary connect to?

its a tiny blood vessel, so at one end would be the larger blood vessel and on the other end would be the portion of the body part it is supplying with oxygenated blood

How many cells thick are the walls of capillaries?

They walls are a single layer of squamous epithelial cells.

Is the rate of filtration the same in all types of capillaries?

No. There are essentially three different capillaries that differ in the rate of diffusion.

What is the capillary and what is it main function?

The capillary is the smallest type of the vessels .

it consists only of two epithelial cells.

and its main function depends on its permeability .

so , it is the main site for exchange of nutrition and gases.

from the tissues to the circulation and from circulation to the tissues .

What are the symptoms of broken capillaries?

extremes of temperature alternating heat and cold often leads to the formation of broken capillaries. these appear as fine red lines on white skin, and discolouraiton on black skin.

What is reabsorbed in the proximal convoluted tubule?

Glucose, amino acids, [SOME of the following] phosphate, potassium, salt and water.

In pyrometallurgical refining what is the driving force behind selective oxidation?

When we set up to win metal in a recovery operation, we frequently choose to remove other materials by simply applying heat to "burn off" or oxidize the things we don't want in our end product. Let's go at this query in two parts. The first part is a no brainer. It's pyrometallurgical refining - we apply heat (fire - the "pyro" part) to a stream of influent to effect the oxidation of stuff we don't want in our desired product. Melt it, blow oxygen through it, burn off dross and presto! good product. Piece of cake. Just burn it off. Remove it by oxidation. But how? Why selectively, or course. Let's look at the "selective" part of oxidation. We need a clear knowledge the "contaminants" in our product stream, their identities and their concentrations. We call the lab folks in off their coffee break and have them find out. Then we weigh these nice folks down with another problem. What is the chemistry of our desired metal and also all of these "contaminants" in our initial product? Everything! And not their "regular" chemistry. We need to know their chemistry at elevated temperatures. In addition, we need to know how all the "contaminants" and our desired metal react with each other (in those proportions calculated in our influent stream) at elevated temperatures. (We don't do that stuff. We're engineers! So we're drinking coffee and filling in crosswords and a sudoku or two while they bust their buns in the lab.) They come back with the data. And the secret to the "selective" part of our "selective oxidation" process. Break is over for us. We grab our hard hats and face shields. The metallurgical chemists have given us a "cook book" to cook up our influent and guide us in winning the desired metal. What happens is that we heat everything up to the "required temperature" per out cook book, and then we add "secret ingredients" to the mix. The material(s) stirred into the molten mix are specifically chosen because they will react with our "undesired materials" and minimally impact our desired metal. The addition of specific materials in specific amounts is the key to making things happen. We force oxygen through the mixture, and the selective oxidation of the dross will occur per our "recipe" courtesy of the guys and gals back in the lab. With the slipping quality of materials in our influent stream (decreasing quality of scrap in the recycling process, lower quality ore - that kind of thing) this process is becoming increasingly important. When calculating costs to recover metals, we see that an already high energy bill will continue to creep up. Energy is increasingly expensive. If there is anything we can do to improve our processes and control our costs, we need to incorporate it. High temperature chemistry acting on a mixture that has had selected materials in controlled amounts added to a molten "base" mix that is then blasted with oxygen is the driving force behind selective oxidation. The application of heat to a mixture and mixing in specific ingredients in specific amounts followed by a big blast of oxygen through the mix to effect specific oxidation of is not new. But its importance in metallurgical recovery processes is now, more than ever, critical to metal markets (and, ultimately, the consumer).

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