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schlieren

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schlieren [′shlir·ən]
(optics)
In atmospheric optics, parcels or strata of air having densities sufficiently different from that of their surroundings so that they may be discerned by means of refraction anomalies in transmitted light.
(petrology)
Irregular streaks with shaded borders in some igneous rocks, representing the segregation of light and dark minerals or altered inclusions, elongated by flow.
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] mice were accomplished by immuno-dot blotting and Western blotting using monoclonal antibody (MAb) 6H4 (Prionics, Schlieren, Switzerland).
Chronic wasting disease prions in elk antler velvet by Angers, Rachel C.; Seward, Tanya S.; Napier, Dana; Green, Michael; Hoover, Edward; Spraker, Terry; O / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Gary Settles, an engineering professor at Penn State University, uses a technique called schlieren photography, which "takes an invisible phenomenon and turns it into a visible picture," he says.
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The protein "is then recognized by the immune system as a virus," says study coauthor Martin Bachmann, an immunologist at Cytos Biotechnology in Schlieren, Switzerland.
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