gradient
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"We were able to create nice gradient: the concentration of embedded ytterbium ions gets denser as you go through each layer, with the core being the most dense," says Wu.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Hussle even selected the cover art: a gradient blue photo of the two rappers chilling with friends at the Hollywood Roosevelt, the hotel they frequented during the recording of the album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
A gradient of retinoic acid in the nose appears to guide neurons, helping each one activate the correct smell receptor depending on its position.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026
En route, traveling the gradient of bombykol, he notes the presence of other males, heading in the same direction, all in a good mood, inclined to race for the sheer sport of it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Oxygen moves through these tracheoles by diffusion, traveling down concentration gradients to reach the flight muscles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Weak offshore gradients that bring warm desert air to the coast add to the heat, said Robbie Monroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
In options trading, there are gradients of success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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