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  1. Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
    8: ...ork helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physi...
    12: ...teins in solution, her work was redirected to DNA fibres. [[Maurice Wilkins]] was already carrying out X-d...
  2. Botany (8977 bytes)
  3. Eye (21834 bytes)
    24: ...nd the first humour, is a coloured ring of muscle fibres. Light must first pass though the centre of the i...
  4. Retina (13061 bytes)
    35: ...ceptors, there are only approximately 1.2 million fibres (axons) in the optic nerve so a large amount of p...
  5. Skin (8340 bytes)
  6. Bone (11388 bytes)
    11: ... strength. In contrast lamellar bone has parallel fibres and is much stronger. Woven bone is often replace...
  7. Moth (5332 bytes)
    22: ...kely to eat mixed materials containing artificial fibres. There are some reports that they can be repelled...
  8. Textile (4228 bytes)
    40: *[[Glass]] fibres can be used in the manufacture of textiles for in...
    55: *[[Felt]] – fibres are matted together to produce a cloth.
  9. Dye (6033 bytes)
    11: .... Acid dyes are not substantive to [[cellulosic]] fibres.
    19: ...tially insoluble in water and incapable of dyeing fibres directly. However, reduction in [[alkaline liquor...
    23: ... nylon, [[triacetate]], [[polyester]] and acrylic fibres. In some cases, a dyeing [[temperature]] of 130 [...
    43: * [[Sulfur dye]]s, for textile fibres
    45: * [[Fluorescent brightener]]s, for textile fibres and paper
  10. Silk (8683 bytes)
    2: ... appearance for which it is prized comes from the fibres triangular prism-like structure, which allows sil...
  11. Weaving (6924 bytes)
    30: ...rocedure, because they didn't want to agitate the fibres too much in the process, and end up with [[felt]]...
    32: ...dle. The process of [[carding]] lines up all the fibres in the same direction, making the wool or cotton ...
  12. Papyrus (5819 bytes)
    13: ...sive papyrus was often reused, writing across the fibres on the ''[[verso]]'' [http://www-user.uni-bremen....
  13. Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
    157: ...ssel]]s, bone matrix, and connective tissue (bone fibres). Scrutiny under microscope further revealed the ...
  14. Pons (1313 bytes)
    6: ...one side (left or right) to the other. Most other fibres in the brainstem travel up and down.
  15. Mesencephalon (2668 bytes)
    10: ...minent. These contain the [[corticospinal tract]] fibres, from the [[internal capsule]], as well as the [[...
  16. Medulla oblongata (2593 bytes)
    5: ... are the ''pyramids'' which contain corticospinal fibres. On the open medulla, there is a slight bulge jus...
    23: ...nucleus solitarius]] and other sensory nuclei and fibres. [[Lateral medullary syndrome]] can be caused by ...
  17. Cerebellum (7954 bytes)
    11: ...In contrast, the optic nerve has a mere 1 million fibres.
    23: ...ll receives synapses from around 100,000 parallel fibres (the axons of the granule cells of the cerebellar...
  18. Banknote (6576 bytes)
    28: ...ixed with [[linen]], [[cotton]], or other textile fibres. In [[1988]], Australia produced the first [[poly...
  19. Bat (13851 bytes)
    83: ...ium is full of fine [[blood vessel]]s, [[muscle]] fibres and [[nerve]]s. When it's cold, the bats wrap the...
  20. Polyp (4768 bytes)
    7: ...racted or thrust out after contraction. By muscle-fibres belonging to the same two systems the whole body ...
  21. Sense (11343 bytes)
    15: ...f [[sound]] perception and results from tiny hair fibres in the inner [[ear]] detecting the motion of a me...
  22. Bismuth (9188 bytes)
    169: as a catalyst for making acrylic fibres,
  23. Globus pallidus (1960 bytes)
    1: ...traversed by numerous [[myelin|myelinated]] nerve fibres that give it the pale appearance for which it is ...
  24. Slugs (3980 bytes)
    26: ... slugs as it helps them move around, and contains fibres
  25. Roman clothing (10346 bytes)
    9: ... as [[sea silk]], was made from the [[byssus]] or fibres produced by ''Pinna noblis'', a large Mediterrane...
  26. Spinning mule (12067 bytes)
    2: ... in 1779 by [[Samuel Crompton]]. It spins textile fibres into yarn by an intermittent process: in the draw...
    20: ... It was first used to spin [[cotton]], then other fibres.
    64: ... rate of 6,000-9,000 rpm twist the hitherto loose fibres together, thus forming a thread.
  27. Spinning (textiles) (1848 bytes)
    3: ...st spinning probably involved simply twisting the fibres in the hand. Later the use of a stick to help tw...
  28. Cell wall (6206 bytes)
    13: ...ctin]] and [[hemicellulose]]. Insoluble cellulose fibres are meshed in to a matrix called pectin and ''hem...
  29. Hydroponics (15454 bytes)
    64: ...n as 'Cellmax', but are still rockwool. Note that fibres of rockwool can break off and lodge in a user's l...
  30. Moon Jelly (10363 bytes)
    53: ...relia'' in the [[Baltic]] showing the grid of the fibres which are slowly pulled through the water. The mo...
    73: ...prey is then drawn to the body by contracting the fibres in a corkscrew fashion (image taken with an [[eco...

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